Cost Problem

1. What is your autocost rule
2. is you activity already finished

Hai Ulysses

if your autocost rules are set for autocost(by clicking the proper check box) and if your activities in which u r parking your the cost is not completed then it has to work.

from where r u entering the cost, are u entering it in the cost from or not check

Thank for your sincere reply , I have found already the root cause why it is happening. I used to work in Primavera P5 wherein you can enter cost directly without having resource allocation, whereas, in P3 it works differently, you need to have an entry in both resource and cost tab;

thanks for such valuable response..

cheers, Uly

thanks for your information

Hi Uly,

You’re right that in P3 cost should be associated with a resource, but you can assign only one resource (you can call it "Cash or Cost") for all activities for purely monetary budget & EVM tracking purposes only.

Cheers,

Burley

cost goes with the resource! cost is cost, whatever it is, it has always one common unit! it doesn’t matter if you got multiple resources!

Hi Anoon,

Yours was a general info about the cost, you’re correct. But the thread (correct me Uly if I am wrong) was about applying cost to activities ignoring the allocation of resources, and Uly came up with a 0 result on the cost tab. He solved the problem in P5, P5 allows allocation of cost to activities even without resources as he said.

In P3 you can’t do the same. You have to assign a resource first then apply cost. A lot of Contractors works the same simple and purely monetary budget tracking only rather than maximizing the outputs of P3..P5..so on.

Cheers,

Burley

CORRECT KA DYAN KABAYAN

ULY