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Steve
Question – on Friday we published an Activity plan with a resource assigned
to some tasks in it. The resource has a cost rate set up in the enterprise
resource pool. When viewing the published activity plan in PWA using a
Project Centre Cost view, no costs show up for the plan eg for a 10 day task
at $500 per day, we were expecting to see $5000 in the Cost column in PWA but
it was zero. When the actual resource subsequently recorded actual work
against the task in his My Tasks page, got it approved and republished the
plan, the cost at that point appeared in PWA.
This is very odd behaviour and not at all what I would have expected as when
carrying out the same process using Project Professional to publish an
enterprise project plan it works fine. We were very careful to ensure that
the Activity Plan was published properly eg the Queue reported no failures.
To confuse matters more, when I attempted to replicate the problem on the
standard Virtual PC demo image this morning, the activity plan publishing
worked fine as required and costs showed up straight away in PWA before the
resource got involved in recording work.
Anyone with any ideas?
to some tasks in it. The resource has a cost rate set up in the enterprise
resource pool. When viewing the published activity plan in PWA using a
Project Centre Cost view, no costs show up for the plan eg for a 10 day task
at $500 per day, we were expecting to see $5000 in the Cost column in PWA but
it was zero. When the actual resource subsequently recorded actual work
against the task in his My Tasks page, got it approved and republished the
plan, the cost at that point appeared in PWA.
This is very odd behaviour and not at all what I would have expected as when
carrying out the same process using Project Professional to publish an
enterprise project plan it works fine. We were very careful to ensure that
the Activity Plan was published properly eg the Queue reported no failures.
To confuse matters more, when I attempted to replicate the problem on the
standard Virtual PC demo image this morning, the activity plan publishing
worked fine as required and costs showed up straight away in PWA before the
resource got involved in recording work.
Anyone with any ideas?