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Decimal Places For Certain Columns Are 4 Decimal Places Instead of 2 (Doc ID 2403609.1)

Last updated on JULY 17, 2018

Applies to:

Primavera P6 Professional Project Management - Version 7.0 and later
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management - Version 7.0 and later
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Cloud Service - Version 15.1.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR
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There are differences between version P6 7 and 17.7 for remaining total cost, estimate at completion, BCWS, BCWP, budgeted total cost when a schedule is exported to an XER file. For instance, in the XER for version 7 there are two decimal places while in version 17 there are 4 decimal places.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
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Expects there to be 2 decimal places instead of 4. Would like to know what fields have been affected so the users are aware of the differences in decimal places.

STEPS
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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

  1. 1. Open an XER document.
  2. View the costs fields and compare P6 version 7 with version 17.
  3. Notice version 17 has four decimal places instead of 2 (which are shown in version 7)

Version 7



Version 17

Cause

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