Adding and displaying costs fixed and variable)

GanttProject Desktop Support
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I see that you can add a rate (cost against a resource) in a task. Is it possible to add a fixed cost to a task (ie Materials) and show that in the Gantt chart? Then combine the resource cost and fixed cost?

Kind regards

David

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AFAIK, in the same task, no.

Workaround: add a new task with fixed cost and sufix “materials” :wink:

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Ok, thanks.

One other request which might be use to other users. When you export the gantt file to a pdf you can see the costs, durations etc. but the report does not total them. It would be nice if you could. I do know that you could export as a spreadsheet and do the totalling there , but it would nice in the pdf export.

Thanks again

David

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Create a one big total summary task at the beggining of the project. Try and see…

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Ok, the totals work for Cost, but cost totals do not display properly. ie 1,500 shows as1,50

Also I have a custom integer field but I can total that field. see screen shot

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Well, as I see it, it is NOT an error. It is a text adjustment :open_mouth: of the data to the column width.

Try either (a) use a wider paper size (i.e. A3) or (b) reduce font size.

Regarding the TOTAL cost, check if the field in the summary tasks is REALLY marked as “calculated”.

“Fixed cost” as a “custom column” is not supported as an aggregated data. Sorry. Use normal “Cost” standard field.

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Thanks. I reduced the font size and it now looks fine.

Also understand that custom columns cannot be aggregated.