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What is CPI field?
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The CPI (cost performance index) field shows the ratio of budgeted (or baseline) costs of work performed to actual costs of work performed, up to the project status date or today's date.
What is Cost1-10 field?
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The Cost1 through Cost10 fields can store custom task, resource, or assignment cost information.
What is Cost Variance field?
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The Cost Variance assignment field shows the difference between the baseline cost and total cost for a task, resource, or assignment.
What is Cost Type field?
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The Cost Type field displays the cost type, as selected in the Cost Type lookup table, which is shipped with Microsoft Project Server and can be modified to reflect the organization’s specific cost types.
What is Cost Rate Table field?
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The Cost Rate Table field provides choices for which cost rate table to use for the resources assigned to a task.
What is Cost Per Use field?
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The Per-use cost is a one-time fee for the use of a resource, such as equipment. Per-use costs never depend on the amount of work done. Although a per-use cost for a work resource depends on the number of assignment units used, a per-use cost for a material resource is applied only one time.

What is Cost field?
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The Cost field shows the total scheduled or projected cost for a task, resource, or assignment, based on costs already incurred for work performed by resources assigned to the tasks, in addition to the costs planned for the remaining work.
What is Contact field?
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The Contact field contains the name of an individual responsible for a task.
What is Constraint Type field?
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The Constraint Type field provides choices for the type of constraint you can apply for scheduling a task.
What is Constraint Date field?
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The Constraint Date field shows the specific date associated with certain constraint types, such as Must Start On, Must Finish On, Start No Earlier Than, Start No Later Than, Finish No Earlier Than, and Finish No Later Than.
What is Confirmed field?
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The Confirmed field indicates whether resources assigned to a tasks have accepted or rejected their task assignments.
What is Compliance Proposal field?
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The Compliance Proposal field indicates whether the current proposal is for a project that helps meet a compliance goal, that is, whether the project is required by law, regulation, or other requirements.
What is Complete Through field?
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The Complete Through field shows the progress of a task on the Gantt Chart view, indicating the point up to which actuals have been reported for the task.
What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Schedule) field?
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The Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Schedule) field shows the result of a schedule constraint analysis on a project. You can choose Selected, Unselected, Forced-In/Out, or Custom Forced-In/Out.
What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Cost) field?
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The Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Cost) field shows the commitment date of a Portfolio Selection Scenario as determined during cost constraint analysis.
What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Cost) field?
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The Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Cost) field shows the result of a cost constraint analysis on a project. You can choose Selected, Unselected, Forced-In/Out, or Custom Forced-In/Out.
What is Committed Planned Start Date field?
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The Committed Planned Start Date field shows the beginning date of the project as committed to in a Portfolio Selection Scenario during resource constraint analysis.
What is Committed Planned End Date field?
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The Committed Planned End Date field specifies the finish date of the project as committed to in a Portfolio Selection Scenario during resource constraint analysis.
What is Code field?
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The Code field contains any code, abbreviation, or number you want to enter as part of a resource's information.
What is Can Level field?
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The Can Level field indicates whether resource leveling can be done on a resource.
What is Business Need field?
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The Business Need field is used to specify the business requirement for the current proposal. When you add information, be sure to be as specific as possible. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Budget Work field?
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The Budget Work field is used to enter or review budget work for budget work and material resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task.
What is Budget field?
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The Budget field is used to view or change whether a work, material, or cost resource is a budget resource, that is, a resource whose work, material, or costs should be tracked in the project.
What is Budget Cost field?
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The Budget Cost field is used to enter or review budget costs for budget cost resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task.
What is bottom-up organize method?
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Organize tasks with the bottom-up method, you list all the possible tasks first, and then you group them into phases.

After you decide on a method for organizing your tasks, you can begin outlining them into summary tasks and subtasks.

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