Referencing resources and tasks

[Ryan @ ADM]

I am using project to track time on multiple projects with multiple
contractors. What I do is give a PO to a specific contractor for a specific
project (task). Then using the max & min keys (+-) I can easily track all my
projects on one page. Some of these PO's I also like to track the hours on.
I do this in resource usage.

What I would like to do is have a way to link the task costs and the
resource cost together. Basically if I had already typed in my total cost
for the task in the "cost" field of the gnatt chart I would like that info to
be available in the resouce usage sheet. Is this possible? How?

Also, how can you make the "cost" field not equal the "act. cost" field when
you go over the cost with the actual cost. I would like the original cost
amount to stay the same.

Thank You,
Ryan

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

Resource cost doesn't always=task cost. What about fixed costs and when you
have 2 or more resources on the same task?

To see original costs, save a baseline and refer to baseline cost. Tools,
Tracking, Save Baseline.
Then select View, Table, Cost and you will see variance between original
(baseline) and current cost.

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