Guys,
I'm a new Primavera user and whilst I've not had too many problems with most of the functions of it, there is one issue I can't fix and would be grateful if anyone could advise.
We have an existing project of around 1000 activities, for each activity the associated cost is stored in "Labor Cost" under the "Status" tab in activity deails.
The problem I have, and I've searched the inernet for days trying to find a solution, is that if I change the activity date, duration or click to say it's actually started, all the costs change to zero. For example, I might have Activity A due to start on 1/1 and end on 6/1 with a budgeted and at completion cost of £5000. If I then change the finish date to 7/1 all the costs change to £0, similarly, if I click to say the activity has started, even if the dates are the same all the costs change to £0.
What is even more confusing thou is that the above is only true for existing activities. If I create a new Activity B with a cost of £5000, I can change dates, duration and click to say it's actually started and the costs will still be £5000 as before. That's exacty what I need the existing activities to do. Our costs are entered manually, they are not calculated as duration x an hourly rate for example.
When it comes to updating the project each month it takes me days having to select each activity, note the costs, change dates and then put back the same costs.
Does anyone hve any idea why this is happening? I sspect it will be something simple, like a box being checked or un-checked but I'm losing days every time I make changes (the nature of our business dictates that activity dates change often) so would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thank you.