Guild of Project Controls: Compendium | Roles | Assessment | Certifications | Membership

Tips on using this forum..

(1) Explain your problem, don't simply post "This isn't working". What were you doing when you faced the problem? What have you tried to resolve - did you look for a solution using "Search" ? Has it happened just once or several times?

(2) It's also good to get feedback when a solution is found, return to the original post to explain how it was resolved so that more people can also use the results.

P6 Remaining Units not equal to Budgeted Units

12 replies [Last post]
Emma Lang
User offline. Last seen 1 year 40 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 9 Aug 2016
Posts: 45
Groups: None

Hello, 

I'm assigning resources to activities on my plan and as the project has not started yet I would expect the remaining units to be the same as the budgeted units. So basically if I have a 5 day duration activity and the resource will work 20 hours against that activity I change the budgeted units to 20 but the remaining units calculates to 40 hours. 

Is there an easy way to change this so budgeted units and remaining units are the same?

 

Thanks

Replies

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

yes

Zoltan Palffy
User offline. Last seen 3 weeks 4 days ago. Offline
Joined: 13 Jul 2009
Posts: 3089
Groups: None

make sure that at the projects level under the calculations tab that on the left under Activities that Link Budget and At completion for not started activities IS CHECKED

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

Hi Zoltan,

 i am having this issue with the not started Activities.

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

Hi Zoltan,

 i am having this issue with the not started Activities.

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

Hi Zoltan,

 i am having this issue with the not started Activities.

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

Hi Zoltan,

 i am having this issue with the not started Activities.

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

hi, Emma,

I checked that, its already marked.

in all the project they are equal except for the coming two months.

Regards,

 

 

Zoltan Palffy
User offline. Last seen 3 weeks 4 days ago. Offline
Joined: 13 Jul 2009
Posts: 3089
Groups: None

they never will be you budgeted units is just that once your start to progress the schedule the remaining units wil be reduced and when the activity is done the remaining units will be 0

Emma Lang
User offline. Last seen 1 year 40 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 9 Aug 2016
Posts: 45
Groups: None

Hi Ahmad, 

Have you tried this:

In the Projects Window, in the Calculations tab - do you have "Link Budget and At Completion for non started Activities"  checked?

 

I'm sure that worked for me.

Ahmad Obeidat
User offline. Last seen 3 years 41 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 26 Mar 2019
Posts: 15
Groups: None

hi

I have almost the same problem, the budgeted units for the non started activities are more than the remaining 

Link Budget and At Completion for non started Activities"  is checked

what might be wrong??

Emma Lang
User offline. Last seen 1 year 40 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 9 Aug 2016
Posts: 45
Groups: None

Hi David, just checked that and it worked. Thanks

David Kelly
User offline. Last seen 1 year 37 weeks ago. Offline
Joined: 19 Oct 2004
Posts: 630

In the Projects Window, in the Calculations tab - do you have "Link Budget and At Completion for non started Activities"  checked?