Non-labor costs in Modern UX Hierarchies

Products

• Clarity PPM SaaS
• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

In MUX on hierarchies, non-labor costs are not available to show on cards or to roll up for totals.

Environment

Release : 16.0.1

Component : Clarity MUX UI Usability

Cause

This is a current limitation.

 

Resolution

You can make a custom calculated attribute on the Project Object or Investment Object that will aggregate Total Actual Costs (from transactions)

 

Choose

    Function:  Sum

   

  

    Additional fields are shown

 

  Argument Number:  1

      Choose Radio Button for Attribute Name (ID) and add

      Actual Cost (aggr_actual_cost)

As the Expression

Complete building the calculated attribute.

Make sure you assign it an API Alias so you can use it in MUX.

Then you can add this attribute to your projects in the hierarchy cards.

 

Refer to article 

Tuesday Tip: Calculated Attribute for Actual Cost

 

Note that the article shows adding the attribute to the Project Object, but the same steps are available for the Investment Object which may be more beneficial to using Hierarchies.