Entering costs for a long project

[dougawells]

Hi -
I have a person that we contract for the life of a year long project.
When we sign the contract with them at the beginning of the project,
they get 50% of their contract amount. Then, half way through they get
another 25%, then at the end, they get the remaining 25%.

When I enter them as a cost - it splits out the total cost of their
contract on a day by day basis for the life of the project. Is there a
way I can get it not to do that, and manually enter their dollar
amounts at the three dates in question, rather than have to go through
all those days on a long project and delete what was put in there?

Thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I hope you are running 2007?
Then create a Cost type resource, assign it to the long task @ 0$.
Now in a Usage view, find this assignment; enter Cost as a line in the right
part of the view and enter the costs whrerever you need to.

HTH

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[dougawells]

Hi,

I hope you are running 2007?
Then create a Cost type resource, assign it to the long task @ 0$.
Now in a Usage view, find this assignment; enter Cost as a line in the right
part of the view and enter the costs whrerever you need to.

HTH

Thanks! That was an easy solution - I should have thought of it. But,
thanks.