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Resources with no budget, but a cost to complete

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Fri, 2005-01-21 11:06
Steven Oliver
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I am trying to assign a cost to complete to a resource, which has zero budget. P3e seems to default to setting the budget = cost to complete. Anyone know how to turn this off ?
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Thu, 2005-01-27 01:55
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Kevin Button
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Steven

At the project level, select the ’Calculations’ tab and untick the ’Link Budget and At Completion for not started activities’.

Doing this allowed me to have a remaining cost with a zero budget and also allowed a remaining duration to be different from original duration for non started activities.

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Tue, 2005-01-25 06:17
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Steven Oliver
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Unfortunately not. On a similar note, if you reduce the remaining duration of an activity that hasnt started, P3e automatically reduces the Original Duration. This isnt always the desired effect.
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Tue, 2005-01-25 06:12
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Kevin Button
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Steven

Something to try - in the resource assignment detail of the activity, insert a ’Cost Units Linked’ field and untick the box.

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