| # Budget lines The following figure shows an overview of the activity budget-line transfer to Microsoft Project: The LN budget is built bottom-up, starting with the budget lines. Each budget line represents a cost object that belongs to one of the five cost types, budgeted in terms of both quantity and time for a particular project/activity. This data is also transferred to Microsoft Project. The activity budget lines in LN are transferred as budget line tasks or resource assignments in Microsoft Project. The corresponding activity task is then set as a summary task of all the related budget line tasks. If Microsoft Project is the owner of the activity planning and the resource assignments, you can transfer or create the activity budget lines in LN as budget line tasks or resource assignments in Microsoft Project, along with the complete activity structure, starting from the connection node. The resources, which were already transferred to Microsoft Project, are assigned to these tasks. As a result, a one-to-one correspondence exists between the budget lines in LN Project and the budget line task or resource assignment in Microsoft Project. After you create the budget lines, Microsoft Project updates the start and end dates for LN budget lines, if changes take place in scheduling. Quantities on Microsoft Project’ s budget line tasks or resource assignments are updated from LN to Microsoft Project or from Microsoft Project to LN, depending on the ownership. Budget information is synchronized between LN and Microsoft Project. In LN Project, you can define budget adjustment as modification to frozen bottom up budget. You can transfer budget adjustments from, and perform scheduling on, LN Project to Microsoft Project. However, you cannot create a new budget adjustment task in Microsoft Project and send the task to LN Project. Note If you already created an element/activity or element/element budget for an LN project, you can still use Microsoft Project for scheduling purposes. In Microsoft Project, a plan is created from the activity structure and budget lines in LN. You can only update schedule information in LN from Microsoft Project. You can no longer perform the third and fourth actions. |