You use period profiles to specify how Oracle Projects groups and displays time periods when you edit budgets and forecasts. Period profiles do not affect the time periods for which you can enter amounts. The periods for which you can enter amounts are determined by the start and end dates of the budget or forecast line.
Your implementation team creates a period profile by specifying whether the period profile is based on PA or GL periods, and by defining a range of periods. The period profile specifies the number of PA or GL periods to include in one or more period groupings. A period profile can consist of up to 1,000 period groupings of varying duration.
Note: Oracle Projects provides two predefined period profiles. One is based on PA periods and the other is based on GL periods. Both period profiles contain 52 single period groupings.
You can associate period profiles with projects at the project, plan type (in the context of a project), and plan version levels. The period profile you select for a project is the default period profile for all plan types that you add to a project. The period profile for a plan type is the default period profile for all plan versions that you create for a plan type. You can override the default period profile selections at the plan type and plan version levels.
Note: You cannot use period profiles to specify how Oracle Projects groups and displays time periods when you create budgets and forecasts that use budgetary control and budget integration features.
For a comprehensive discussion of how Oracle Projects uses period profiles, see: Period Profiles.