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Introduction

This article provides solutions to the most common issues with Costs & Metrics reports.

Before reading the article below, we recommend that you have a good understanding of the mechanism and the prerequisites for correct generation of the Costs & Metrics report, which is described in detail in a dedicated article: Costs & Metrics reports.

Also, since the correct generation of Costs & Metrics reports depend on the correct generation of costs for a specific project. Make sure that you have also read the article below. It describes and provides troubleshooting tips for the most common causes for incorrect costs generation: Costs generation – most common issues & troubleshooting.

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Issue description & Solution

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Solution: Remember that, by default, the Costs & The Metrics report retrieved from specific projects is based on data from the last correctly generated costs in those projects, i.e. those which did not contain errors or warnings after the generation process – red and yellow symbols next to entries in Project editor → EstimatesCosts.

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IMPORTANT!

Note that there is an Include costs with warnings in Cost and metrics reports option, which enables cost entries with WARNINGS (yellow) in reports as well.

After you change the project settings or cost settings, make sure that the costs are generated again before you attempt to generate the report. Generating a report does not automatically generate costs if any costs were correctly generated in the past, in a specific project.

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Solution: As mentioned in the Introduction, the most probable reason for this situation is that the costs for the projects in question have been generated incorrectly. Therefore, to verify if this is the case, go to Project editor → EstimatesCosts, for a specific project and address the issue by reading Costs generation – most common issues & troubleshooting.