Hiding Resource Rates

I have a Resouce Pool with 2000+ resources. It contains the hourly rates for
all the resources to allow me to generate cost data from project plans.
However for HR reasons I need to hide the rate information from plans that
are linked to this pool. Tried a few idea's but short of having two versions
of the Pool with and without rates and linking/unlinking from ALL the
sub-projects when i need to do budget work (tried it and takes a couple of
hours) I'm at a loss. Help

Simon

Rod
Thu Oct 27 14:12:42 CDT 2005

The rates can't be hidden. However, it's not difficult to put the rates into
a spreadsheet or database then have a macro temporarily import the rates to
Project, create your report then delete the rates again.

Alternatively change all the rates to include overheads and round all rates
in a similar band to be the same value. Now the rates are much less
politically sensitive.

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Rod Gill
Project MVP
Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more


"Simon" <Simon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Resouce Pool with 2000+ resources. It contains the hourly rates
>for
> all the resources to allow me to generate cost data from project plans.
> However for HR reasons I need to hide the rate information from plans that
> are linked to this pool. Tried a few idea's but short of having two
> versions
> of the Pool with and without rates and linking/unlinking from ALL the
> sub-projects when i need to do budget work (tried it and takes a couple of
> hours) I'm at a loss. Help
>
> Simon

Simon
Fri Oct 28 09:05:14 CDT 2005

Hi Rod,
It looks like I will be putting them in xls. That was the origonal plan
just wanted to see if there was a simple way of doing it

Thanks Simon

"Rod Gill" wrote:

> The rates can't be hidden. However, it's not difficult to put the rates into
> a spreadsheet or database then have a macro temporarily import the rates to
> Project, create your report then delete the rates again.
>
> Alternatively change all the rates to include overheads and round all rates
> in a similar band to be the same value. Now the rates are much less
> politically sensitive.
>
> --
>
> Rod Gill
> Project MVP
> Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more
>
>
> "Simon" <Simon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F71F6A2F-45B5-4027-B1B2-0350A868F9DD@microsoft.com...
> >I have a Resouce Pool with 2000+ resources. It contains the hourly rates
> >for
> > all the resources to allow me to generate cost data from project plans.
> > However for HR reasons I need to hide the rate information from plans that
> > are linked to this pool. Tried a few idea's but short of having two
> > versions
> > of the Pool with and without rates and linking/unlinking from ALL the
> > sub-projects when i need to do budget work (tried it and takes a couple of
> > hours) I'm at a loss. Help
> >
> > Simon
>
>
>