Ive had the exact same problem and spent hours trying to figure it out.
What you need to do, is before any resources or budgeted costs are added to the activities, is go to the projects window and click on the "calculations" tab with your project open.
Then make sure the "Link budget and At Completion for not started activities" box is checked, and also "Reset Original Duration and Units to Remaining" is checked. I'm not 100% sure about the last one but it works for me.
You can now add your resources and actualise them without the budget value reset problem.
If you already have budget values, I think you would need to remove them and start over unfortunately.
Lots of ways of making the system "misbehave" like this.
Even if your resource assignment record is set to "Override" the resource dictionary's price - you must have a resource rate that is not zero in the dictionary. Changing the resource dictionary price will require the cost to be recalculated.
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16 years 2 monthsHey Paul, Ive had the exact
Hey Paul,
Ive had the exact same problem and spent hours trying to figure it out.
What you need to do, is before any resources or budgeted costs are added to the activities, is go to the projects window and click on the "calculations" tab with your project open.
Then make sure the "Link budget and At Completion for not started activities" box is checked, and also "Reset Original Duration and Units to Remaining" is checked. I'm not 100% sure about the last one but it works for me.
You can now add your resources and actualise them without the budget value reset problem.
If you already have budget values, I think you would need to remove them and start over unfortunately.
Best of luck
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14 years 1 monthPaul, 1. you need to define
Paul,
1. you need to define resources
2. you need to apply costs to those resources
3. you need to have a planning in hours preferably
4. you need to schedule
5 you need to apply actuals (under tools)
Easier might be to use the expeses tab with auto compute actuals.
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21 yearsLots of ways of making the
Lots of ways of making the system "misbehave" like this.
Even if your resource assignment record is set to "Override" the resource dictionary's price - you must have a resource rate that is not zero in the dictionary. Changing the resource dictionary price will require the cost to be recalculated.