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Phase Cloning that Copies Cost Type Information in PM Project Phases

There are moments when a project is created where some phases contain the same cost type information and amounts as other phases in PM Project Phases. It would be great if you could clone a phase so it creates a new phase that contains all the information of the one you are wanting to clone. For example if you had a phase 1500- - with a cost type that has 5 units and $300 on it and needed to make another phase that had the same amount, and just needed to change the description, you could clone that phase so it creates a new phase containing the cost type information but creates it as 1500-01- with the same 5 units and $300 on that phase. If 1500-01- is being used it will go up a number to 1500-02-, 1500-03- and so on.

This would be very helpful with projects that have a lot of copy paste information where the main thing only changing is descriptions and a good portion of the phases needing to be entered contain the same unit, hours, costs/hour, unit costs, and amounts.

  • Jaymes Eckersley
  • Sep 23 2022
Company Great Basin Industrial
Job Title / Role AR Accounting Clerk
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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