Baseline Rollup

[Michael]

Hi All,
I'm trying to track contract hours, actual hours worked, and the difference
in 3 different columns on the task sheet view. I have the following columns
in my task view: Work (which I use for entering in contracted hours),
Baseline Work (where I enter the actual hours), and Work Variance (which
shows the difference of Work - Baseline Work). The columns for Work and Work
Variance are rolling up all of the hours entered by line item and that is
what I want. But the hours entered in Baseline Work are not rolling up to the
parent task with a total. Should I be using other fields to do this? Like I
said, I just need a column to enter in hours, a column to enter in actual
hours, and a third that shows the difference. And I need all of the columns
to show a roll up of hours.

Thanks for the advice!

Michael

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Michael,

<<Baseline Work (where I enter the actual hours)>> ?

Baseline Work is the reference that you set before entering any tracking
data (Tools / Tracking / Set Baseline)
Actual hours have to be entered in Actual Work
Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Yes, I'm sorry, you are not using the appropriate fields
Actual Work should be entered, well, as Actual Work
Baseline Work should hold the original estimation (it is filled by Tools,
Tracking, set baseline)
Set Baseline rolls everything up.
Once a task is finished Work becomes = Actual Work
The difference will be visible inWork Variance.
HTH

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