Resource Cost

[Rohan]

Hi,

IS there any way i can hide resource costs from managers and users ?

Please let me know.

Thanks

Rohan

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Rohan,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Yes - deny them access to the Project! That's the simplest way, but you
could create a duplicate project without the costing information. Or
communicate with Reports rather than the whole project. You might tell
the managers and users that the resource costs are a measure of the cost to
the company of using that resource and is not their salaries. Some people
just use a guesstimated average for the rates.

No doubt there are other ways - anyone?

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
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[John]

Hi,

IS there any way i can hide resource costs from managers and users ?

Please let me know.

Thanks

Rohan

Rohan,
Well no and yes. As long as the real resource rates reside in the
Project file, anyone who opens the file with Project will be able to see
the cost. There are a couple of choices. One is to encode the cost by
factoring it. For example, take the real rates and divide them by some
obscure factor. However unless multiple obscure factors are used, it
won't take the average person long to figure out the "code". Probably a
better method is to normalize all rates to something simple like $1/hr
and then keep the real rates in a separate spreadsheet. This approach is
more complex in that it requires you to import the Excel rate values
into your project file when you want to see the real cost values, and
then you must be careful not to save those values in the "live" file
(i.e. the file that others have access to).

While looking into other possibilities I came up with a scheme that
might do what you want. It is similar to the second approach above but
doesn't require any interface with other applications. However, there
seems to be some type of glitch (but there is a workaround) that I can't
explain and I'd like to understand it before I give details.

John
Project MVP