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Applying Progress to a Level of Effort Activity

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Mon, 2007-03-05 11:00
Philip Richards
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Can anyone please advise.

I am trying to update the ’Actual Units’ to a Level of effort activity in P5. Units go in ok, and Remaining units & percent complete do change accordingly, but when the project is re-scheduled, Actual units go back to zero.

I have Duration Type set to ’Fixed Duration & Units’ & Percent complete type set to ’Units’. There is no curve applied to the resource.

Regards

Phil
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Tue, 2007-03-06 05:30
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Philip Richards
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Thanks guys.

Both of your contributions were helpfull in resolving my problem.
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Tue, 2007-03-06 01:12
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Jim Fairchild
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Check your Project Preferences under the Calculations tab. If you are entering Actual Units manually you need to make sure that the "Recalculate Actual Units and Costs when the duration % changes" is unchecked.
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Mon, 2007-03-05 12:14
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Dieter Wambach
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Phil,
actual units and level of efforts does work in P3e. There should be a mistake.
Some questions:
- LoE has no fixed duration, because its duration depends from other activities, so either fixed units or fixed untis/time - but this doesn’t produce your situation.
- Did you create correct relationships (SS then FF)?
- Did a resource report actuals as well - via Timesheets?

Sorry, no answer, just more questions

Dieter
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