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Associate a task with both a work resource and a cost, and sign 100% completed activity
Ciao a tutti, su microsoft Project nel momento in cui vado ad assegnare ad una stessa attività del mio Gantt sia una risorsa lavoro che una risorsa costa, e successivamente contrassegno quell'attivit...
- 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
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
thank you so much for the explanation. To manually update only the actual costs I have to change the settings on options?
thank you very much
thank you very much
- Marco_Vendra,
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.
By default Project automatically calculates actual cost based on resource rate and % work complete. However you can change the option, File > Options > Schedule group and uncheck the option:
"Actual costs are always calculated by Project".
John