How planned cost for "Resource Plan" is calculating

[Community Alums]

Hi All,

I am working on Project and Portfolio management module. As part of that I am checking how   "Planned Cost" and "Allocated Costs" are updating when Resource plan is requested and allocation done for the request. We know what is the logic they are using to update these fields, But as per our requirement we need to do add few changes in Planned costs and allocated cost. Could anyone tell me what is the name of "Burniess rule or Scipt include" which is calculating and updating those fields.

[ravish2]

Costs associated with a resource plan are tracked on the Resource Plan form. All costs related to resources allocated to the plan are rolled up to the resource plan. For example, the Allocated cost field on the resource plan is the sum of all costs from the resources allocated to the plan:

Employee A: 8 hours allocated to the plan at a rate of $50 per hour = $400

Employee B: 16 hours allocated to the plan at a rate of $75 per hour = $1200

Employee C: 16 hours allocated to the plan at a rate of $75 per hour = $1200

The total allocated cost on the resource plan = $2800

The following cost fields are present on the Resource Plan form:

• Planned cost: Calculated from the resources' hourly rate and the planned hours. Used to give an estimation on the cost of the plan during planning.
• Allocated cost: Calculated as a sum of all of the resources' allocated costs. Used to give a more accurate estimation on the plan cost during allocation and approval. The Allocated Cost field on the resource plan form is automatically derived and calculated from cost records.
• Actual costs: Calculated from the hourly rate of each resource and the actual hours worked, as reported on each resource's time card. Used to analyze plan costs based on the actual hours.

[ravish2]

Please look for "Calculate Demand/Project Planned Cost" "Calculate Demand/Project Allocated Cost" Business Rules on resource plan table.

These contains script include "RMCostAggregator" which do majority of the work.

[danenglish]

Ravish,

Those are the exact rules/scripts I was able to locate when I had the same question.

I have a strange requirement in that we want to track resources, but not have costs calculate based on that.   Do you know what rule or part of the script would handle ONLY the cost calculations that I could remove or comment out but still have the rest of the resource management steps work as expected?

[Uncle Rob]

Hey Ravish,

Do you know of an OOB function in any of the Script Includes that does a recalculation of Planned / Allocated just for the Resource Plan?  So far everything I find is triggered from insert/update of a Requested Allocation or Resource Allocation.