Display
Cost: Choose to display the profile bars/curves in terms of costs.
Units: Choose to display the profile bars/curves in terms of units.
Display actual and earned value using financial period data: Mark to display past period actual values (rather than actual to date values) stored in financial period intervals for the Actual bar and curve, Planned Value curve, Earned Value curve, and Estimate at Completion curve. When you choose this option, stored past period actuals are distributed evenly, within each financial period, from the financial period start date to the financial period end date, and earned value calculations are based on these stored period quantities.
If you do not choose this option, the profile spreads actual to date values evenly from the actual start to the data date or actual finish date of the activity or assignment (unless you manually enter non-linear values when planning assignments to activities).
Tip:
- If projects are summarized by financial period (which is controlled by an administrative setting), this option is ignored. When projects are summarized by financial period and you display a financial period timescale, the profile displays past period actual values if performance has been stored for a financial period; for financial periods that do not have stored performance, the profile displays actual to date values in financial period intervals.
Filter for Bars/Curves
Labor: Mark to display labor units or costs, depending on the selected display option, then select the fill pattern for displaying labor information.
Nonlabor: Mark to display nonlabor units or costs, depending on the selected display option, then select the fill pattern for displaying nonlabor information. You can select a new fill pattern.
Material: Mark to display material costs, depending on the selected display option, then select the fill pattern for displaying material information.
Expenses: Mark to display expense costs, then select the fill pattern for displaying expense information. The Expenses checkbox is available only if the selected display option is Cost.
Total: Mark to display total costs (Total = Labor + Nonlabor + Expenses). The Total checkbox is available only if the selected display option is Cost.
Note
- You cannot display expense units or total units on the spreadsheet because not all expenses are tracked using the same unit of measure. For example, you may assign 50 cubic yards of concrete and 1000 linear feet of pipe to the same activity.
Show Bars/Curves
Baseline: Mark to show primary baseline values by date for each time unit in the current layout, or show values cumulatively, as a horizontal curve. Click the Color button to select the color used to display baseline information.
Budgeted or Planned: (Activity Usage Profile only) Mark to show budgeted or planned values by date for each time unit in the current layout, or show values cumulatively, as a horizontal curve. Click the Color button to select the color used to display budgeted or planned values.
Actual: Mark to show actual values by date for each time unit in the current layout, or show values cumulatively, as a horizontal curve. Click the Color button to select the color used to display actual values.
Remaining Early: (Activity Usage Profile and Activity Profile only) Mark to show remaining early values by date for each time unit in the current layout, or show values cumulatively, as a horizontal curve. Click the Color button to select the color used to display remaining early values.
Remaining Late: (Activity Usage Profile and Activity Profile only) Mark to show remaining late values by date for each time unit in the current layout, or show values cumulatively, as a horizontal curve. Click the Color button to select the color used to display remaining late values.
Show Earned Value Curves
Planned Value Cost / Labor Units: Mark to show, as a curve, the portion of the budgeted or planned total cost or units scheduled to be completed as of the project data date.
Earned Value Cost / Labor Units: Mark to show, as a curve, the portion of the budgeted or planned total cost or units actually completed as of the project data date.
Estimate at Completion Cost (EAC) / Labor Units: Mark to show, as a curve, the estimated cost or units at completion.
Note
- The Planned Value Cost and Earned Value Cost curves may display different values in the profile, even if the total Planned Value Cost and Earned Value Cost values are the same in Activity Table columns. This occurs when an activity has an expense with an Accrual Type of Start of Activity or End of Activity (rather than Uniform over Activity). Since these are one-time expenses, and the planned value and earned value curves are cumulative (representing total values spread over time), the planned value spread is different than the earned value spread, even though the total values are the same.