Where is the Fixed Cost field in PWA??

[Rich C]

Hi Everyone

Project Server/Project Pro 2003

We have asked our PMs to add fixed costs to their plans. I have set up a new
task outline code with a list of 20 finance cost codes (I have added this
outline code to the Portfolio Analyser using PA Extender) The PM navigates to
a custom cost view in MS Pro, and for each task chooses the appropriate code
from the drop down list and then adds the cost value in the Fixed Cost
column...so far so good.

I went to create a Portfolio Analyser view to show this info but the Fixed
Cost total does not seem to appear in the field list. If I create the view
using the cost total, then any resource costs on the task get shown as well!

is there a way to solve this?. I really need a PA report that shows fixed
costs only.
It seems to be a major flaw, unless I've missed something?

Thanks

Rich

 

[Jackson T. Cole]

Being a task-level field, "Fixed Cost", would not appear in 2003's PA. You
would need to expand the cube to include tasks, then it could be included. I
think code to include tasks in 2003's PA is somewhere on the Microsoft
Technical site. 2007 's set of 14 Data Analysis cubes has one for Tasks
(non-timephased).

Fixed cost is a funny one - it doesn't roll up, but does get counted in
"Cost", which is rolled up. Might be a way using custom Cost field to
calculate rolled-up Fixed Cost, but that is above my head, at the moment.

FWIW ...

JTC.

 

[Rich C]

Thanks JTC
I actually solved it myself using the Portfolio Analyser Extender from
Bogdanov Associates..this extends the PA to include an Earned Value cube and
one of the fields available is Fixed Cost, so it works great now

Thanks for your quick response

Rich