Baseline Costs do not add up

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J Burford Fields

Project Server 2003 SP2.

I'm looking at a project's baseline cost numbers. The numbers for
tasks are fine. However, the lines roll up, and then the summaries
roll up to a phase total that is not mathmatically correct.

Is this the sort of thing that forcing a binary rebuild will fix?

JB Fields
 
J

J Burford Fields

Project Server 2003 SP2.

I'm looking at a project's baseline cost numbers. The numbers for
tasks are fine. However, the lines roll up, and then the summaries
roll up to a phase total that is not mathmatically correct.

Is this the sort of thing that forcing a binary rebuild will fix?

JB Fields
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Correction, it is the underlying resource baseline costs that do not
add up to task baseline costs.
 
B

Ben Howard

Do you have other costs (manually entered) onto the task? Do you have
different cost rate tables (A-E) or different effective dates. In summary,
are you comparing apples with apples?
 
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J Burford Fields

Do you have other costs (manually entered) onto the task? Do you have
different cost rate tables (A-E) or different effective dates. In summary,
are you comparing apples with apples?
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Yes. In the Task Usage View, we see the correct underlying resource
costs for a period, but they roll up to a different total. We chased
it down to one day and find that the PM hours are wrong, but not the
morning hours. Bonkers.
 
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J Burford Fields

Do you have other costs (manually entered) onto the task? Do you have
different cost rate tables (A-E) or different effective dates. In summary,
are you comparing apples with apples?
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Thanks, Ben.http://appleparkltd.spaces.live.com/






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One point, however; I have changed rates a few times. I copy out the
rates to a spread sheet, then set them all to $100 until it is time
for EVMS reporting, when I copy them back in.
 
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J Burford Fields

One point, however; I have changed rates a few times. I copy out the
rates to a spread sheet, then set them all to $100 until it is time
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More info: Rebuilding the the binary did not correct the calculations
of Baseline Costs. How the baseline costs for a task could be
different from baseline costs of the underlying resources when added
up....

J
 
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J Burford Fields

More info: Rebuilding the the binary did not correct the calculations
of Baseline Costs. How the baseline costs for a task could be
different from baseline costs of the underlying resources when added
up....

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Oh, but when we openned the database table, the PROJ_EXT_EDITED field
was already a "1"!
 
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Mike

Oh, but when we openned the database table, the PROJ_EXT_EDITED field
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Summary baseline data is calculated when you run the baseline. For
example, if you make a change to a task and rebaseline that task, the
summary tasks baseline data will not be updated unless you choose it
to be.


regards

Mike
 
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J Burford Fields

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Summary baseline data is calculated when you run the baseline. For
example, if you make a change to a task and rebaseline that task, the
summary tasks baseline data will not be updated unless you choose it
to be.

regards

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I appologize for mis-stating this, initially. The problem is not with
summary tasks, but with baseline costs of resources not adding up
correctly into the Baseline cost for the task during the same period.
 
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