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Hi Experts,

I am trying to assign skills for my resources and use them in request tasks. My question is on field ‘In Use Cost’ (tool tip help : The cost to apply when the skill is available at the time and being used) in skill setup. I have set this value as 30 and did not use any other setups like skill levels.

and then assign this skill to one of my resources. The first thing I noticed is that ‘in use cost’ in skill did not inherit. (Is this correct?)

Then I created a request task with plan start and finish date within above date range and add above set skill as a demand. If I report time against this demand (with an assignment for the above resource or not) I always get the cost setup in resource group(which is 10).

Can someone please explain if I should follow any other setups or my thinking about this functionality not correct?

Thank you,

Roshan

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The in-use cost is a PSO parameter to steer the Scheduling engine, see PSO documentation for details. It's not a monetary value, rather a relative value, consider it "points". This is similar to the cost defined on the Scheduling Resource. PSO uses it to optimize the service margin as activity value minus allocation cost. It has nothing to do with actual cost of a resource. 

The in-use cost is a PSO parameter to steer the Scheduling engine, see PSO documentation for details. It's not a monetary value, rather a relative value, consider it "points". This is similar to the cost defined on the Scheduling Resource. PSO uses it to optimize the service margin as activity value minus allocation cost. It has nothing to do with actual cost of a resource. 

Thank you Alexander for the response. The tool tip help is bit of misleading.

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