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Resource Costs Back Ended

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Wed, 2007-11-21 12:02
Mark Chapman
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I have a 5 day activity with a resource cost against it. On producing a cost loading report the cost is spread out over the 5 days. However I want the cost back ended. I tried using the curve options for resource but this did nothing. Did I use this correctly?

I remember using a delay or lag in P3 to do a similar job but this didnt work either.

I don’t want to create milestones.

Cheers, Mark
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Thu, 2007-11-22 06:34
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Mark Chapman
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Thanks Brad & Andrew.

I’ve been busy this morning trying to get this report perfect. Yes I forget to amend the resource duration from 5 days to 1. So Andrew’s tip worked. My report didnt help as it was taking the data from the baseline and not remaining -doh. Moscow.
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Thu, 2007-11-22 05:54
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Brad Lord
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Hi Mark

with P5 there are dates for resources as well as actities,

give us a call and i will talk you through it

07929 642107, hate trying to explain things my text

regards

brad
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Wed, 2007-11-21 13:54
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Andrew Podolny
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Hi Mark.
You can’t assign the resource to a milestone type activity in P5.
If you are using P6 you can manually set the resource consumption to the very last day of activity. If you have P5 - you may try Expense Item with ’End of Activity’ Accrual Type or try resource assignment with Original Lag = 4 and Original Duration = 1.
Hope this will help you.
Regards,
Andrew
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