What is the Cost Center field?

[Robert]

Hi,

In PWA 2007 SP2 and in Project Pro 2007, in resources views we can insert
the Cost Center field. There is no Help about this field. How does it work?
Thanks for your help

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Robert --

Cost Center is a free entry alphanumeric field that is one of the default
fields in the Microsoft Project 2007 desktop application. Oddly enough, as
you already know, this is one of the fields that has absolutely NO Help
information about it. If your organization tracks Cost Center information
about each resource in your Enterprise Resource Pool, I suppose you could
use this default field. But the trouble is that you cannot create a Lookup
Table of acceptable values, meaning that you would have to manually type the
Cost Center for each resource individually. Because of that, if I needed to
track Cost Center information for each resource, I would want the Project
Server administrator to create a custom Lookup Table of Cost Center values
and then create a custom enterprise Cost Center field (keep in mind that the
Cost Center field name is already used, so he/she would have to specify a
different name, such as Company Cost Center or something like that). If
your organization does not need to track Cost Center information for each
resource, then don't worry about. So, DO you need to track Cost Center
information for each resource, or was this merely a learning exercise?
Hope this helps.

 

[Robert]

Dale,
Thanks for this deep point of view!

"Dale Howard [MVP]" <dale[dot]howard[at]msprojectexperts[dot]com> a écrit
dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Robert --

You are more than welcome, my friend!

Dale,
Thanks for this deep point of view!

"Dale Howard [MVP]" <dale[dot]howard[at]msprojectexperts[dot]com> a écrit
dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...

Robert --

Cost Center is a free entry alphanumeric field that is one of the default
fields in the Microsoft Project 2007 desktop application. Oddly enough,
as you already know, this is one of the fields that has absolutely NO
Help information about it. If your organization tracks Cost Center
information about each resource in your Enterprise Resource Pool, I
suppose you could use this default field. But the trouble is that you
cannot create a Lookup Table of acceptable values, meaning that you would
have to manually type the Cost Center for each resource individually.
Because of that, if I needed to track Cost Center information for each
resource, I would want the Project Server administrator to create a
custom Lookup Table of Cost Center values and then create a custom
enterprise Cost Center field (keep in mind that the Cost Center field
name is already used, so he/she would have to specify a different name,
such as Company Cost Center or something like that). If your
organization does not need to track Cost Center information for each
resource, then don't worry about. So, DO you need to track Cost Center
information for each resource, or was this merely a learning exercise?
Hope this helps.