cbrayne
Computer
- May 13, 2008
- 1
We have an MSProject 2003 project which runs over several years consisting of many tasks assigned to resources held within the project.
Resources are costed simply using the “standard cost” column.
Our problem occurs only on one task.(as far as we know) Time for a single resource has been input against this task periodically over several years. Rate changes at year ends have been applied properly and the task has extended in duration as extra time beyond the planned task duration has been added.
This month the manager noticed that, despite further time being added, the Actual Cost value was remaining at £0.00. Deleting the recently added hours did not void the calculated fields which remained at £0.00 rather than blank/null.
As an experiment we manually extended the task duration then added more time charged against the extended task. The Actual Cost field then calculated correctly.
Adding sufficient time to force the task to extend beyond the experimental additional duration did not cause the error to reoccur.
Is this a known bug? Impacts are potentially disasterous.
Chris
Resources are costed simply using the “standard cost” column.
Our problem occurs only on one task.(as far as we know) Time for a single resource has been input against this task periodically over several years. Rate changes at year ends have been applied properly and the task has extended in duration as extra time beyond the planned task duration has been added.
This month the manager noticed that, despite further time being added, the Actual Cost value was remaining at £0.00. Deleting the recently added hours did not void the calculated fields which remained at £0.00 rather than blank/null.
As an experiment we manually extended the task duration then added more time charged against the extended task. The Actual Cost field then calculated correctly.
Adding sufficient time to force the task to extend beyond the experimental additional duration did not cause the error to reoccur.
Is this a known bug? Impacts are potentially disasterous.
Chris