Parent/Child Work Orders - Question related to Costs
If you have added Child work orders to a Parent WO via the Children tab - on the Parent WO how do you view the WO Costs of just the Parent Work Order? As I see it the Parent WO includes the costs of the parent and the child work orders.
Since cost rolls up to the Parent Work Order, once you add a child the cost will be combined on the cost summary tab and there isn't a way to see only the parent cost unless you look at how much the child WO cost is and subtract it from the total cost of the parent work order. However, if for some reason you wanted to un-link the parent and child work orders, you could go to the child tab on the parent work order and delete that child work order and the cost summary tab will go back to only showing the parent work order cost.
follow-up question. I have written two work orders 1732907 is the parent with asset 105937. WO 173909 is the child WO written to asset 105953. Both work orders are now completed. However, when I look at the Cost tab on either assets there are no costs listed for these work orders.
There is a button on the bottom of the cost tab called 'refresh cost data' if you have not already, you can try clicking that button and should pull in the information from those completed work orders. If you cannot see the button you may need to open up screen designer and un-hide that block.
Thank you. I am aware of "refresh cost data" button, oddly enough when I logged back in the system all the costs were there, I'm thinking the system was just slow to update. All good now.
jhobor,
Since cost rolls up to the Parent Work Order, once you add a child the cost will be combined on the cost summary tab and there isn't a way to see only the parent cost unless you look at how much the child WO cost is and subtract it from the total cost of the parent work order. However, if for some reason you wanted to un-link the parent and child work orders, you could go to the child tab on the parent work order and delete that child work order and the cost summary tab will go back to only showing the parent work order cost.
Thank you!
follow-up question. I have written two work orders 1732907 is the parent with asset 105937. WO 173909 is the child WO written to asset 105953. Both work orders are now completed. However, when I look at the Cost tab on either assets there are no costs listed for these work orders.
There is a button on the bottom of the cost tab called 'refresh cost data' if you have not already, you can try clicking that button and should pull in the information from those completed work orders. If you cannot see the button you may need to open up screen designer and un-hide that block.
Thank you. I am aware of "refresh cost data" button, oddly enough when I logged back in the system all the costs were there, I'm thinking the system was just slow to update. All good now.
Glad it worked out!