Forum Discussion
Associate a task with both a work resource and a cost, and sign 100% completed activity
- Marco_Vendra,
For future questions please use English.
Cost resources are not tied to task effort (work) or duration, so they will be independent of percent work complete or percent complete. In order to accrue the actual cost for a cost type resource, you need to enter the value into the Actual Cost field.
Since your scenario is for a rented machine (forklift), you might consider setting it as a work resource with a zero standard rate but with a cost per use value. For example, let's say the forklift rents for $100/day. Each time the forklift is assigned to a task, whether the task is 1 hour or 1 day, the forklift will cost $100. However, note that if the task is a two day task, it will still only accrue a cost of $100, so this method may or may not be appropriate for your needs.
Hope this helps.
John
For future questions please use English.
Cost resources are not tied to task effort (work) or duration, so they will be independent of percent work complete or percent complete. In order to accrue the actual cost for a cost type resource, you need to enter the value into the Actual Cost field.
Since your scenario is for a rented machine (forklift), you might consider setting it as a work resource with a zero standard rate but with a cost per use value. For example, let's say the forklift rents for $100/day. Each time the forklift is assigned to a task, whether the task is 1 hour or 1 day, the forklift will cost $100. However, note that if the task is a two day task, it will still only accrue a cost of $100, so this method may or may not be appropriate for your needs.
Hope this helps.
John
John-project Did you mean Material resources don't accrue cost based on % Complete, because Cost resources do accrue Actual Cost based on % Complete.
RFromm,
Yeah, that's true if the cost resource is the only resource assigned to the task. However, the stated case was for both a work and cost resource assigned to the task. In that case, actual cost only updates based on the work resource.
An interesting and rather curious side point is that for a task with both a work and cost type resource, it is impossible to set the task % Complete field to 100%. Project limits the value to 99%. On the other hand, if % work complete is set to 100%, Project again only allows 99%, BUT, the user has the ability to set the % work complete for the cost type resource to 100%. Actual cost for both resource types is picked up. Make sense? No, not really, but that's how she works, at least for Project 2019 Pro.
Why Project is set up that way I have no idea.
John