What Happens When You Turn Off a Budget Column
If you uncheck a column in Settings → Budgeting, that column is hidden in all budgets, but the data remains intact.
For example:
If you turn off Equipment Hours, your equipment hour values will disappear from the budget view.
If you re-enable Equipment Hours later, all previously entered or tracked equipment hours reappear exactly as before.
Turning off a budget column does not delete:
Planned hours
Planned costs
Actual hours
Actual costs
Cost code breakdowns
Progress values
All data is preserved behind the scenes.
What Happens When You Turn On a Budget Column
If you enable a new column that wasn’t previously visible:
The column appears immediately in your budgets.
Any existing data for that column also appears (if applicable).
You can begin entering planned values or reviewing existing actuals right away.
For example:
If Labor Costs were off when the budget was created, enabling Labor Costs will show all calculated labor cost actuals based on the employee hourly rates.
How Progress Is Affected by Budget Settings
To view Progress Value in your budgets:
The Progress column must be enabled in Budgeting
The user must have View Expenses permission
If Progress is turned off in Budgeting:
All progress data is hidden
Progress entries are not deleted and will reappear when re-enabled
Impact on Subproject Budgets
Changing Budget Settings affects both parent and subproject budgets equally:
Columns are hidden or shown consistently across all budget levels
Autofill Higher Projects behavior is not affected
No data in subproject budgets is removed
Best Practices
Don’t worry about losing data. Column settings only hide or reveal information.
Keep only the columns you use regularly enabled to reduce visual clutter.
Before disabling cost columns, confirm whether supervisors need that data visible.
Re-enable columns temporarily if you need to export or review cost data.
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