Luminaire budgets allow for the ability to apply complete costs to each design luminaire defined in an audit. These costs can then be calculated utilizing the 'Budget Costs' report found in the reporting section of the database system.

Luminaire budget id's are automatically created each time a design luminaire is created for a specific audit. The budget id is the same as the design id code.

When a design luminaire id is created new in the system, (and a new design template is created as well), the system additionally creates the new budget id. All of the values in the new budget id are zero unless there was a pre-existing template that perfectly matched the new budget id. If a template existed, then all of the values contained in the template will be copied into the new budget id.

The specific parts and their corresponding quantities are always synchronized with the audit's matching design luminaire record.

This synchronization works in both directions. If any changes are made to the parts in the budget costs, the changes are automatically made to the parts in the matching design luminaire record. If any changes are made to the parts in the design luminaire record (on the design luminaires screen), the changes are automatically made to the parts in the matching budget costs record.

This syncronization ensures that there are no discrepancies between the budget costs and the parts list reports.

• To edit the parts and configuration tables, press the Tables button.
• To return to the design luminaires screen, click on the Close button.