Human Capital Planning (HCP)

Actions required after CalPlanning upgrade

November 24, 2025

CalPlanning Community,

We have upgraded CalPlanning to improve performance, reliability, and compatibility with newer operating systems.

Please note: There are several actions users need to take when they first log back into CalPlanning. Please review the CalPlanning Upgrade Job Aid for details.

Please refer to the...

CalPlanning unavailable November 21 to 24

November 18, 2025

CalPlanning Community,

CalPlanning will not be available starting on Friday, November 21 at 5:00 p.m. through Monday, November 24 at 8:00 a.m. due to a planned system upgrade. All CalPlanning tools (CalPlan, HCP, CalRptg, HCPRptg, and SmartView) will be offline during that time.

Please check the CalPlanning website for details and updates. If you have questions, please contact the Help Desk at calplanhelp@berkeley.edu.

Thank...

FY26 Forecast and FY27 Preliminary Operating Budget are now available

September 16, 2025

The CalPlan and HCP planning applications are available with the FY26 beginning balance and July through August Actuals (this data is already available in CalRptg). The FY2026-27 Operating Budget has been seeded with preliminary numbers to assist planning activities, but remember that these are subject to change.

Please review the September 2025 release notes for details about this update, including:

Actualized Forecast FY26 Beginning Balance details Differences between...

October 2023 Release Notes

October 17, 2023

October 2023 CalPlanning Release Notes

The CalPlanning FY24 Forecast and a preliminary version of the FY25 Operating Budget are now available for planning. We used data from CalPlanning FY24 Operating Budget Final as sources for FY24 Forecast and FY25 Operating Budget. Note: the FY25 Operating Budget has not officially launched and therefore no budget assumptions have been built into the FY25 Operating Budget. We are providing access to the budget in...

January 2022 Release Notes

The CalPlanning FY22 Forecast and a preliminary version of the FY23 Operating Budget are now available for planning. We used data from CalPlanning FY22 Operating Budget Final as sources for FY22 Forecast and FY23 Operating Budget. Note: the FY23 Operating Budget has not officially launched and therefore no budget assumptions have been built into the FY23 Operating Budget. We are providing access to the budget in case you would like to get a head start on some internal budgeting work.

Overview of FY22 Forecast and FY23 Operating Budget 1. Data...

March 2021 Release Notes

March 5, 2021 (revised March 5, 2021, 5 pm)

March 2021 CalPlanning Release Notes

The CalPlanning tools (CalPlan, HCP, CalRptg, HCPRptg, SmartView) are available with 2021 January Actuals. Updates include:

FY2020-21 Forecast Working version has January Actuals

Annual removal of DeptIDs for planning has been completed

Simplified the way that Pooled Positions and Fee Remission are planned in HCP

Loaded updated FY21...

February 2021 Release Notes

February 5, 2021

February 2021 CalPlanning Release Notes

The CalPlanning FY21 Forecast is now available for planning. We used data from CalPlanning FY21 Operating Budget Final as the source for FY21 Forecast.

We will open FY22 Operating Budget in March. Due to the continued uncertainty regarding COVID-19, the FY22 Operating Budget is currently blank and uneditable. We plan to pre-populate the FY22 Operating Budget with the Final version of the FY21 Operating Budget along with...

On the HCP001 report, what is the Actuals Journals at the end of the report?

When a transaction is done in a BFS journal outside of UCPath and we are unable to link a BFS transaction to an employee, HCP creates a member in the Employee dimension called “Actuals Journals.”

The Actuals Journals amount represents the actualized consolidated employee benefits for GAEL and UCRP Supplemental Assessment that are transacted in BFS at the DeptID level that cannot be attributed to an individual employee for the closed months.

Actions required after CalPlanning upgrade

July 6, 2021

CalPlanning Community,

We have upgraded CalPlanning to improve performance, reliability, security, and compatibility with newer browsers and operating systems. All CalPlanning tools (CalPlan, CalRptg, HCPRptg, SmartView) are now available.

Please note: There are several actions users need to take when they first log back into CalPlanning. Please review the linked job aid or...

How do I plan for a vacant position?

To plan for a vacant position in HCP, you create a To Be Hired (TBH) employee to serve as a placeholder for the compensation expense associated with your planned employee.

Add TBH showing on context sensitive menu

From the Monthly Pay Rate tab on the Manage Existing Employees and Job Codes form, right-click on the first column...