Forgive me if this has been discussed to death already. I have a project that needs to be cost loaded per activity. Thinking I could use same approach in P6 as P3, (was I thinking?), I set up costs in the expense tab.
When my colleague then was updating that activity, I realized that manual computation was need to update the new % cost complete. I then dumped all activities out, and reloaded into the resource (non-labor)tab, using LUMPSUM as a resource.
My colleague then went about updating, and then, no matter how I’d set up the Activity type (always Resource dependent) and the duration type and the % complete type, I couldn’t get the resources to update.
The tech support person said that I couldn’t use money as a resource and update % to derive amounts (i.e. 58% complete activity shows 58% actual cost to date)
I sarcastically then asked tech support if I’d have to use a spreadsheet to compute actuals. They said that was a good idea (like I was seriour), but the software won’t figure out actual costs from activity % complete. Did I misunderstand? Did I talk to the wrong person?
The "costs" in this case are an earned value that is really a cost to the owner, the amount we can bill for that much progress.
When my colleague then was updating that activity, I realized that manual computation was need to update the new % cost complete. I then dumped all activities out, and reloaded into the resource (non-labor)tab, using LUMPSUM as a resource.
My colleague then went about updating, and then, no matter how I’d set up the Activity type (always Resource dependent) and the duration type and the % complete type, I couldn’t get the resources to update.
The tech support person said that I couldn’t use money as a resource and update % to derive amounts (i.e. 58% complete activity shows 58% actual cost to date)
I sarcastically then asked tech support if I’d have to use a spreadsheet to compute actuals. They said that was a good idea (like I was seriour), but the software won’t figure out actual costs from activity % complete. Did I misunderstand? Did I talk to the wrong person?
The "costs" in this case are an earned value that is really a cost to the owner, the amount we can bill for that much progress.