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Jimmy
Settings: MSP2003 SP2
Manual Costs calculations (both boxes unchecked)
Task View, cost table shows ACWP, Actual Cost, and Cummulative Cost.
Actual Cost is manually keyed into the task view by month.
In the task pane, right side, when I use the arrow keys to move around, the
value of ACWP changes when I arrow over it. If I press F9 the value of ACWP
returns to the value of Cummulative Cost. THen when I arrow away from the
"cell" the value of ACWP drops. Once it changes, it stays put until I press
f9 again.
The value of ACWP holds constant if I insert the ACWP column into either
task or gantt view (as a stand alone column in the left pane).
Why would this behavior happen? It is happening on most tasks, even those
with 0% complete (and 0% work complete) and it does not matter if the tasks
are left or right of the status date (or time now). What would happen if a
person forgot to enter Actual Costs for a month in the middle of the span
(Apr, May, June, Aug, Sept) in this case July?
It appears cummulative cost is acruing past time of the status date as well
-- is this essentially BCWS (and not a sum of the actual costs?) When I type
in actual costs it tends to use those and not calculated costs.
Manual Costs calculations (both boxes unchecked)
Task View, cost table shows ACWP, Actual Cost, and Cummulative Cost.
Actual Cost is manually keyed into the task view by month.
In the task pane, right side, when I use the arrow keys to move around, the
value of ACWP changes when I arrow over it. If I press F9 the value of ACWP
returns to the value of Cummulative Cost. THen when I arrow away from the
"cell" the value of ACWP drops. Once it changes, it stays put until I press
f9 again.
The value of ACWP holds constant if I insert the ACWP column into either
task or gantt view (as a stand alone column in the left pane).
Why would this behavior happen? It is happening on most tasks, even those
with 0% complete (and 0% work complete) and it does not matter if the tasks
are left or right of the status date (or time now). What would happen if a
person forgot to enter Actual Costs for a month in the middle of the span
(Apr, May, June, Aug, Sept) in this case July?
It appears cummulative cost is acruing past time of the status date as well
-- is this essentially BCWS (and not a sum of the actual costs?) When I type
in actual costs it tends to use those and not calculated costs.