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Are there any whizzes out there who know how to use Microsoft Project 2013?
Question: how do I assign a cross project cost that is still determined by a (daily or monthly) rate?
eg. I want to assign rateable cost such as rent or fuel across the whole project rather than the tasks which overlap each other in some cases.
You cannot assign resources (material or work) to the project summary task. You can assign cost budget resources, but that is at a flat rate.
An option is to create a hammock task and then assign a material resource at a variable rate per day.
See below for the information on hammock tasks:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141733/en-us
Although the article references Project 2003 - it still works the same in 2013.
The create the material resource and set its rate to $1.00 per hour. As you assign the resource enter your estimated usage per day in the units field. For example 100/d would apply $100 per day to the task. If the task duration grew or shortened, the cost would grow or decrease as desired.