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Last Updated: 2026-09-18
Concept: Downstream Impacts from Quote

Concept: Downstream Impacts from Quote

Based on business process configurations:
  • When the primary quote is approved, Workday creates an opportunity project with resource requests for each role and unnamed resources for each request, along with the resource forecast, and project plan.
  • When there is a change to opportunity details of an approved primary quote that triggers sub business processes on the Opportunity business process, Workday:
    • Converts Opportunity projects into a project, creates a project plan, and a project task resource.
    • Creates a customer contract.

Project Behavior after Quote Creation

When you configure the
Create Project from Services CPQ
sub business process as an action step on the
Quote Event
business process, and approve a primary quote:
  • Workday creates an opportunity project, resource request, and an assignment with an unnamed resource (UNR) after the business process completes when quote role lines exist.
    • You can't create additional requests manually until the opportunity project is converted to a project.
    • Only these fields are editable before conversion: Role Category, Percent Allocation, and Requirements.
    • You can assign resources to the request as either specific named workers or as extra unnamed resources.
    • When you have more than 1 unnamed resource (UNR) for a request, Workday splits the estimated allocation hours evenly among the number of assignments made on the request.
  • Workday creates a Resource Request for every resource request, and continues to update it until the opportunity project is converted, so the quoted baseline stays aligned with the quote role line.
  • Workday also passes the role requirements, if defined on the quote, to the resulting resource request.
  • When a Services CPQ user creates a new primary quote, Workday inactivates the corresponding opportunity project for the previous primary quote.
  • You can edit the non-quote fields on the opportunity project.
  • When the project is in opportunity state, you can edit these fields and tabs on the project summary:
    • Dependencies
    • Display Project in Opportunity Marketplace
    • External Link
    • External Project Reference
    • Ideas
    • Optional Project Hierarchies
    • Owner
    • Project Groups
    • Project Plan tab
    • Resource tab (Only fields not from the quote.)
    • Status
  • When the project is in opportunity state, you can edit these fields on the project details:
    • Importance
    • In Scope
    • Measures of Success
    • Objective
    • Out of Scope
    • Priority
    • Problem Statement
    • Project Overview
    • Risk Level
    • Success Rating (Only when Percent Complete = 100%.)
    • The Probability of Success report field derives the value from an open and active opportunity from a quote.
After an opportunity project is created from a quote, you can also edit the resource forecast.
  • Workday initially creates the resource forecast with all the hours that the Services CPQ user entered in the quote allocated to the 1 unnamed resource associated with the role.
  • You can use the
    Edit Resource Forecast
    task to change the forecast hours to values different from those in the quote.
  • When you add other resources to a resource request, you can manually allocate hours to each resource.
  • When you manually change the forecast hours and want to go back to the hours entered in Services CPQ, you can select
    Recalculate
    from the
    Edit
    drop-down on the
    Resource Forecast
    tab on the project.
    • When you define multiple resources for a resource request and recalculate the forecasted hours, Workday distributes the hours equally between the resources using the allocation structure from the quote.
  • When you change resource forecast allocations, the total number of hours might not match the estimated hours in the corresponding resource request and assignment. (This is an existing Projects functionality.)
  • When you update the total number of hours in a time period for a resource assignment on an opportunity project, and then recalculate the resource forecast, Workday recalculates the total number of hours using the allocation structure from Services CPQ.
  • Example: You create a quote role line for Consultant, and enter 40 hours for a week 1. In the project resource request, when you assign a second consultant to the request, and recalculate, Workday sets the hours to 20 hours for each consultant for Week 1.

Project Behavior after Editing Quotes

When you configure the
Edit Project from Services CPQ
sub business processes as an action step on the
Quote Event
business process, and edit an approved primary quote:
  • Workday updates the project with the approved quote changes after the business process completes.
  • When the modified quote is not a primary quote, there is no downstream impact on project objects.
  • When an approved primary quote is modified, Workday will sync those changes with the pending project events. This ensures all related project events are updated with the latest information from your quote.
  • If the modified quote is the primary quote:
    • When you
      Delete
      a service, Workday inactivates the associated opportunity project.
    • When you
      Add
      a service, Workday creates a new Opportunity Project for each service on the quote based on the project hierarchy.
    • When you
      Add
      a role line, Workday automatically adds:
      • A new resource request on the opportunity project.
      • An unnamed resource assignment populated with the start/end dates, and estimated hours defined in the new quote lines.
    • When you
      Delete
      a role line, Workday deletes the associated resource request, assignment, task resource, resource forecast line, and any pending request worker events.
    • When the quote is not a primary quote prior to the edits but becomes one after the changes, Workday automatically creates new projects for the services on this quote.
  • When you modify an approved quote and the approver denies the change then:
    • The primary quote continues to be the same with no changes, and the associated projects remain active.
    • The non-primary quote continues to be the same with no associated projects.
    • If the primary quote is changed to non-primary, then the associated projects are set to inactive.
  • When you convert the opportunity project to a full project, Workday makes all the fields available to edit.
If you’ve configured the
Recalculate Services CPQ Resource Forecast
service on the
Project Resource Plan Line
business process to update forecasts automatically or conditionally:
  • When a Services CPQ user deletes a service, Workday deletes the corresponding resource requests, removes all associated resource assignments, and resource forecast lines.
  • When a Services CPQ user deletes a quote role line, Workday deletes the corresponding specific resource request, associated assignment linked to the removed role line, resource forecast lines, task resources, and any pending request for worker events and automatically recalculates total project demand, updating overall capacity and labor projections to reflect the removed role line .

Project Plan

  • When an opportunity project exists for a quote with phases and tasks, and the
    Convert Opportunity Project to Project
    business process has the
    Process Services CPQ Project Plan
    service configured, Workday converts opportunity project to a standard project and creates a project plan after the opportunity details change and all services are approved, denied, or canceled.
  • The project plan retains the order of phases and tasks defined in the quote. When you create new phases or tasks, Workday adds them to the top of the project plan.
  • The
    Task Display Name
    on the quote task automatically populates the
    Custom Task Name
    column of the project plan.
  • You can continue to add phases and tasks to the project plan from the
    Project Planner
    tab, while the project is in opportunity state.
  • When you delete a phase or a task in the quote, Workday also deletes them from the project plan unless the project has validations that might prevent the deletion.
  • When you have condition rules configured on the business process, if 1 of the services in the quote meet the acceptance condition, then Workday creates a project plan. If none of the services pass the rule conditions, Workday doesn't create a project plan.
  • When phases and tasks fail critical custom validation, Workday doesn’t create the Project Plan.
  • When the project is an Opportunity project, you can't replace the project plan. You can only edit in the
    Project Planner
    tab. We also prevent you from editing these fields:
    • Custom Task Name
    • End Date
    • Phase
    • Start Date
    • Task
  • When you convert the opportunity project to a full project, Workday makes all the fields available to edit.

Project Task Resources

  • When an opportunity project exists for a quote with phases and tasks, and the
    Convert Opportunity Project to Project
    business process has the
    Process Project Task Resources from Services CPQ
    service configured, Workday creates project task resources after the opportunity project converts to a standard project.
  • To automatically create project task resources, ensure that:
    • The quote has an effort estimation of
      With Phases and Tasks,
      and a task with role allocations must exist.
    • The quote is primary and approved.
  • When you add a role to a task, but leave the hours at 0, Workday doesn’t create task resources.
  • When task resources fail critical custom validations, Workday still creates the Project Task Resource but with errors.
    • You can set Custom
      Notification
      on the business process to notify the users about the errors.
  • When there is a single resource request with 1 resource assignment or plan line, Workday creates one task resource.
  • When there are multiple resource assignments for a role, Workday creates 1 task resource for each resource assignment or plan line under the same task and splits the allocated hours evenly across all task resources for each line.
  • If any task resources already exist on the project before project conversion, Workday doesn’t overwrite them. This might result in additional task resources that require manual cleanup.

Contract Lines in Contracts Created from Quotes

  • Role:
    • Revenue Treatment defined in Services CPQ Settings defaults to the Role Revenue Treatment in the contract.
    • Revenue Schedule Template (Revenue Recognition Schedule) defaults from the Role Revenue Schedule Template defined in Services CPQ Settings.
    • Standard Rate Sheet in the contract is derived from default value specified in the Use Standard Rate Sheet option of the Services CPQ Settings.
    • Revenue Adjustment Reason is derived from Services CPQ Settings and applied to all contract rate sheets for time and expense role lines.
    • You can only submit a contract when you have a single rate for a role. When you submit a quote with multiple rates for a role, Workday creates the downstream contract in
      Draft
      status so that you can edit for a single rate on the contract rate sheet.
  • Expense:
    • Revenue Treatment defined in Services CPQ Settings defaults the Expense Revenue Treatment in the contract.
    • Revenue Schedule Template (Revenue Recognition Schedule) defaults from the Expense Revenue Schedule Template defined in Services CPQ Settings.
  • Third Party Cost:
    • Revenue Treatment defined in Services CPQ Settings defaults the Third Party Cost Revenue Treatment.
    • Revenue Schedule Template (Revenue Recognition Schedule) defaults from the Third Party Cost Revenue Schedule Template defined in Services CPQ Settings.

Project Billing Rate Sheet on Contract Rate Sheet

  • No Project Billing Rate Sheet (PBRS) is defaulted into the PBRS field on the contract rate sheet.
  • When Workday adds a project billing rate sheet to the contract rate sheet and no billing rate rule exists on the cost rate sheet, the PBRS prompt is editable.
  • When Workday adds a project billing rate sheet to the contract rate sheet and a billing rate rule exists on the cost rate sheet, the PBRS prompt is not editable.
  • If a PBRS is added to the contract rate sheet,
    Unit List Price
    on the PBRS will default in the
    Standard Rate
    column on the contract rate sheet.
  • Unit Price
    from the quote =
    Contract Rate
    on the contract rate sheet.
  • When you override a unit cost on a quote role line, Workday automatically:
    • Populates the
      Standard Cost Rate Override
      field on the resource request with the new value.
    • Populates the
      Standard Cost Rate Currency Override
      field with the service currency.
  • When you don’t enable
    Role Unit Cost Overrides
    for quotes, the override fields on the resource request display as empty.