How to lock the total budget cost in P6 V7

Hi,

I suggests to uncheck the Tick Box for the "Calculate Cost from Units" in the Resource Details Pane. Or Set your Duraion Type to "Fixed Duration & Units".

I hope this will help.

Raymund hit the nail on the head

check these things

if the calculate cost from units is checked to yes you will have to run a global change

in the global change make sure that the Select Subject Area is set to Activity Resource Assignments 

where calculate cost from units = Yes

then calculate cost from units = No

then on right select change then commit changes

as far as changing the duration type add a column 

look under the General heading and bring over the duration type column

filter for ALL activities

click in the duration type column and change it to Fixed Duration & Units

now do a fill down for all of the remainder of the activities

do not worry about them not changing for milestone activities.

the above changes changes the existing activities

also go to the resource directory and and look for your resource and uncheck the calculate cost from units if it is checked.

also go to the projects directory make sure that you project is highlighted

click on the defaults tab and change the duration type to Fixed Durations and Units

both of the changes to the above items will now be the correct setting when you add new activities.