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Budget Cost

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Sun, 2010-02-28 08:33
Anbin Ponnith
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Hai
1.I did Cost Loading For my Project.I am Able to Get the Correct Budget Cost in the Activity Table .But in My Activity Usage Profile Option/Resource Usage Profile I got Difference of 60SAR(Saudi Riyal)
2.When I Import the Same Project to Another PC I got Different Budget Cost & After that if i Run Global Change (Budget Cost = Budget Material Units * Price/Unit).I am able to get the Exact Value in Activity Table & In S Curve I got Same 60 SAR Diff
How can i Fix it.
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Anbin Ponnith
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Tue, 2010-03-02 12:01
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Anbin Ponnith
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Hai
Thanks all for ur reply.Actually I am getting Budget unit similar to BOQ.
My main Problem i am not able to get the Budget Cost in S Curve similar to Activity table
If i Run Recalculate Assignment Cost Total Budget Cost getting change
Once Again if i run Global Change i am able to get Correct Budget Cost in activity table any in my S Curve the Problem remain same
Is there any option to fix it
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Anbin
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Tue, 2010-03-02 09:20
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Andrew Podolny
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P6 database is designed to hold up to 8 decimal points in some cases (cost_per_qty for instance is NUMERIC(21,8)) but the P6 interface allows you to see only 2 decimals.

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Andrew
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Tue, 2010-03-02 07:52
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Izam Zakaria
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Yeah i guess everybody confront the same problem. This happen too at Primavera 3. So what u need to do just play around the figure.
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Sun, 2010-02-28 11:13
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D Artagnan
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Anbin,

It’s because of the rounding up the figures. Pro’ly, the data that you imported have more than 3 decimal places but P6 can only accomodate 2 decimal places. What P6 does is round it up accordingly.
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Sun, 2010-02-28 11:02
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Mike Testro
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Hi Anbin

Sounds like a rounding up / down error.

Make sure that the two data sets are set to the same decimal places.

Best regards

Mike Testro
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