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Part 4: Working with Contracts, Project Costs, and Changes
Using the Custom Cost Worksheet Section If you need to be able to cost to a third, customizable cost category in the Cost Worksheet, you can use the Custom Cost Worksheet feature. When you enable this feature in the Costing section of the Project Settings dialog box, a new module called Contracts <Custom> appears in the Contract Information folder of the project in the Project View. Several new <Custom> columns also appear in the Cost Worksheet. You can then create new custom contracts as a third cost category customized for your business, and then create any change documents and trends against the custom contract. The custom documents are costed to the Custom columns in the Cost Worksheet. See Custom Cost Worksheet Section Overview in Help for information on the additional columns.
In the Details section of a custom Contract document window, the Cost Category field indicates that this contract is being costed to the Custom columns of the Cost Worksheet. You can change the term <custom> to whatever term that applies to your situation. Use the Folders dialog box to change the name of the Custom Contracts module, and the Customize Text dialog box to change "custom" to another term. If a change order is linked to a <custom> contract, the change order's Cost Category is set to <Custom>. <Custom> change orders added outside of Change Management collect changes costed to that cost category. For trends, the <Custom> option is added below Commitment in the Cost Category drop-down.