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Budget quantity for milestones

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Sun, 2006-01-08 22:39
Eckart Schenck
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Hi all,

I’m trying to put a quantity onto a milestone (purchase order).
This works fine for actual MS, but not for planned.

Do you know reason for that, is there a way around that?

Thanks for your help!

Heinz
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Fri, 2006-01-13 10:11
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Gordon Blair
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Umm have you tried just adding it into the cost window?

Resource ’What ever you want to call it’

Budgeted Cost ’how much it is’

As long as you’ve got the relevant resource in the dictionary, doesn’t appear to cause a problem.

This is how I do all my Milestone payments.

Let me know how you get on?

Cheers

Gordon
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Mon, 2006-01-09 08:47
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Gary Whitehead
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I’m guessing P3 won’t allow you to add planned resources for a zero-duration task, as it would have problems calculating the forecast when it’s spread across zero time.

As for a way round it, a quick and dirty fix would be to change the Milestone to a normal task with a duration of 1, and correct the schedule with appropriate changes to lags.

Cheers,
G

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