Decision form on Project Workspace

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title: Decision form on Project Workspace
description: Learn about the fields on the Decision form of the Project Workspace. Use this form to add decisions to your projects.
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product: Project Workspace
classification: project-workspace
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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# Decision form on Project Workspace

Learn about the fields on the Decision form of the Project Workspace. Use this form to add decisions to your projects.

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Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Number

</td><td>

System-generated ID number with a configurable prefix.

</td></tr><tr><td>

State

</td><td>

Current state of the decision. All new decision records are created with Open state.The available states are:

-   Pending
-   Open
-   Work in Progress
-   Closed Complete
-   Closed Incomplete
-   Closed Skipped

</td></tr><tr><td>

Priority

</td><td>

Urgency of approving or implementing the decision based on possible impact.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Decision status

</td><td>

Status of the decision. The available options are: -   Pending
-   Approved
-   Rejected

</td></tr><tr><td>

Impact

</td><td>

Impact on the outcome of the project if you don’t implement the decision.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Approval required

</td><td>

Option for determining whether approval of the decision is required.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Estimated Cost

</td><td>

Estimated cost of implementing the decision.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Due date

</td><td>

Requested date on which the decision must be approved or implemented.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Assigned to

</td><td>

Primary resource assigned to work on the decision. The default value is the name of the user creating the decision record.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Parent

</td><td>

Project number to which this decision belongs.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Show on project status report

</td><td>

Option to specify whether the decision information should be included in the project status report.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Short description

</td><td>

Brief description of the decision such as what the decision is about, who made it, what it affects, and the decision outcome.As you start entering the title for your decision, related decisions that potentially match your decision are displayed.

 Click the suggestion icon \(\[Omitted image "suggestions-icon.png"\] Alt text: Suggestion icon\) to select a description from the list of predefined decision descriptions.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Details of the decision and its potential impact.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Work notes

</td><td>

Information to record and track the status of decision implementation or approvals.

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