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title: Configure budget attribute at instance-level
description: Configure the budget attribute by expense type or cost type as an instance-level to work on budget allocations for your projects using Project Workspace.
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release: australia
product: Project Workspace
classification: project-workspace
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Enable financial budget allocation for projects in Project Workspace, Configure financials for Project Workspace, Configure, Project Workspace, Project Portfolio Management, Strategic Portfolio Management]
---

# Configure budget attribute at instance-level

Configure the budget attribute by expense type or cost type as an instance-level to work on budget allocations for your projects using Project Workspace.

## Before you begin

-   Enable the budget allocation property to work on budgeting for projects. For more information, see [Enable financial budget allocation for projects in Project Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/project-workspace/enable-fin-budget-pws.md).
-   Role required: admin

**Important:** Existing customers cannot change the budget attribute to cost\_type.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** and type in **sys\_properties.list** in the filter box.

2.  Filter the Name column to locate and open **sn\_invst\_pln.budget\_allocation\_attribute** property.

3.  Update the Value field to one of the following.

    -   **cost\_type** - view financials by cost types such as Hardware Opex, External labor Capex, Software Capex, Software Opex, and so on.
    -   **expense\_type** - view financials by expense types such as Capex and Opex.
4.  Select **Update**.


**Parent Topic:**[Enable financial budget allocation for projects in Project Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/project-workspace/enable-fin-budget-pws.md)