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Hi, I just stumbled across this forum, and perhaps I can get an answer relating to projected earnings/expenditures using P3e. Please forgive me if this has already been asked and answered.

I am used to seeing projected earnings based on either early dates or late dates or both. I am being told that p3e uses only "planned" dates. Is there a way to see both the early and late date curves?

Also I am being told that there seems to be a bug when a P3e user statuses his schedule. Typically, when an activity has started, the user will check the actual start box first. As soon as this is done, the system (I am told) locks in both the planned start and planned finish dates. The projected earnings curves are then based on these fixed dates, even though the schedule update and future updates may schedule the activity to occur in a different time frame. This is obviously unacceptable to show projected earnings inconsistent with the current schedule, and I can’t believe this is accepted by the industry.

Does anybody know if this is a software problem or operator error?

Thanks.

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Bernard Ertl
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Hi Forum Guest, welcome to the Planning Planet! I hope you consider registering and joining the community.

I’m locking this thread as you have re-posted it in the correct (P3e) forum already.

Bernard Ertl
InterPlan Systems - eTaskMaker Project Planning Software