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Accumulate Costs and Time to an Issue

The accumulate feature allows you to calculate the estimated cost and duration of the entire issue by adding together the estimated cost and duration of each task. You can also choose to accumulate the issue and all of its children. Children are additional records entered as a result of attempting to resolve the original issue.

To accumulate costs and time to an issue

1. Select Issues, Assigned or Unassigned, and a priority level.

   The Issue List appears.

2. Select the issue of interest.

   The Issue Detail page appears.

3. Select Actions, Accumulate Issue on the menu bar.

   The Accumulate Issue page appears.

4. Click one of the following buttons:

   Accumulate this Issue and All Children

   Calculates the estimated cost and duration of the issue by adding together the estimated cost and duration of tasks for this issue and all of its children.

   Accumulate Only this Issue

   Calculates the estimated cost and duration of the issue by adding together the estimated cost and duration of tasks for only this issue.

   Cancel

   Closes the Accumulate Issue page without accumulating the issue.

   The estimated cost and duration are accumulated and you are returned to the Issue Detail page.

5. Select the Time/Cost tab on the Issue Detail page.

   The tab displays the estimated cost and duration for the issue based on the values accumulated.