If this is the case then, the software should export the answers in excel not the rounded figures. If we copy the distributed budget figures in excel, we end up having a 2% to 4% greater sum.
I would make sure though that the hours/day allocated for activities are the same as hours/day for the resource allocation. If it would make a difference at all, which I doubt.
ZM
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Submitted by Ronald Winter on Fri, 2006-08-11 10:24
I begin with, P5 stores everything in hours (even if you are working in days.) It simply divides the calculated result by 8 (or whatever you have set for ’hours/day’) and then rounds the display - not the answer.
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Submitted by Zafar Manzoor on Thu, 2006-08-10 17:20
Thats what I figured. A weekly distribution of budget of 1 for an activity spanning two weeks is distributed over two weeks as 0.5 and 0.5 and then rounded to the closest (or greater) whole number, ending up to a dustributed sum of 2.
Manual fine tuning becomes a laborious job if activites in question are a couple of thousands.
P3 3.1 did this job accurately, I wonder what went wrong with P5.
In Edit User Preferences there is provision for placing decimals in activity durations but not for time distributed budgets of resources.
Anyways thank you for replying. It helped.
Regards,
ZM
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Submitted by Rashid Iqbal on Thu, 2006-08-10 16:27
Primavera is not accurate for these calculations. Reason being it divides the budgeted quantity by duration (hours) to get Units per time period and the limitation of decimals let the values roundup. This increase or decrease of 1 or 2 is very normal.
If you want to be accurate, export it to a spreadsheet, make the corrections there and then put Excel to make some beautiful graphs for you.
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22 years 10 monthsRE: Resource Assignment Data
If this is the case then, the software should export the answers in excel not the rounded figures. If we copy the distributed budget figures in excel, we end up having a 2% to 4% greater sum.
I would make sure though that the hours/day allocated for activities are the same as hours/day for the resource allocation. If it would make a difference at all, which I doubt.
ZM
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22 years 10 monthsRE: Resource Assignment Data
I begin with, P5 stores everything in hours (even if you are working in days.) It simply divides the calculated result by 8 (or whatever you have set for ’hours/day’) and then rounds the display - not the answer.
Member for
22 years 10 monthsRE: Resource Assignment Data
Thats what I figured. A weekly distribution of budget of 1 for an activity spanning two weeks is distributed over two weeks as 0.5 and 0.5 and then rounded to the closest (or greater) whole number, ending up to a dustributed sum of 2.
Manual fine tuning becomes a laborious job if activites in question are a couple of thousands.
P3 3.1 did this job accurately, I wonder what went wrong with P5.
In Edit User Preferences there is provision for placing decimals in activity durations but not for time distributed budgets of resources.
Anyways thank you for replying. It helped.
Regards,
ZM
Member for
20 years 6 monthsRE: Resource Assignment Data
Hi,
Primavera is not accurate for these calculations. Reason being it divides the budgeted quantity by duration (hours) to get Units per time period and the limitation of decimals let the values roundup. This increase or decrease of 1 or 2 is very normal.
If you want to be accurate, export it to a spreadsheet, make the corrections there and then put Excel to make some beautiful graphs for you.
Regards
Rashid