Actual Costs don't display in Portfolio Analyzer (2003) unless...

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Hi folks,

Troubleshooting this one was a tough, but from the looks of it we can not
get Actual Costs to display in Portfolio Analyzer in certain situations.

We enter our own actual costs by month (we have set the option to off for
calculating costs). However, if there is no actual work associated with the
assignment for the period in which we have entered Actual Costs, then
Portfolio Analyzer does not pick it up. Example: If actual work is recorded
on an assisgnement in September, but the Actual Costs are in October then
Portfolio Analyzer does not see it. Project Center views display fine.

We've extended the OLAP cube for EV reporting and at the using that cube we
see the Actual Costs in that task level cube!

Is this a bug with the standard Olap cube in that it does not pick up my
actual cost as described above? If not, any best practices on how we should
update our project files to ensure Actual Costs are not droped from OLAP?

/Spiro Theopoulos

 

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PS. Update...version 2007 Data Analysis works fine; it picks up Actual Cost
even if there is no Work or Actual Work in the same timephased period... the
problem seems to be with 2003 only. I've open a call with Microsoft. I'll
keep you posted.

/Spiro Theopoulos

 

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Microsoft confirmed this is a bug and will work on fix.