You can add up to five price per unit rates for each role in the roles dictionary. When you assign a role to an activity during project planning, you can choose which rate you want to use to calculate cost. Defining rates for specific roles yields more accurate project cost planning results. You can define an unlimited number of changes to prices for each role; however, the effective date must be unique.
- Choose Enterprise, Roles.
- Select the role you want to assign rates to, then click the Units and Prices tab. If tabs are not displayed in the Roles dialog box, click the Display Options bar and choose Roles Details.
- Click Add at the bottom of the Roles dialog box.
- Double-click in the Effective Date column, then click the Browse button to select the date the prices takes effect.
- Enter up to five Price/Unit rates for the selected role.
For example, if the price per unit is $25 per hour, enter 25h; if the price per unit is $50000 per year, enter 50000y. You can only enter unit values in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. Your system administrator defines the abbreviations for these units in the Admin Preferences, Time Periods tab when P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database in P6, Application Settings when connected to a P6 EPPM database.
Notes
- When connected to a P6 EPPM database: An application level setting determines whether cost spreads account for changes in resource and role rates over time.
- The Calculate Costs from Units checkbox is marked by default when you add a new role. When this option is selected, any new assignments for the role will have its costs recalculated whenever any quantity changes occur.
- The default unit value is hours. If you type a price but no unit, the module defaults the unit to hours.