Update Cost Allocation for Contingent

Is there a way to update Costing for a Contingent worker? In some installations I can do it (in Vision insallation) in Some I can't. What makes it available.
I know Contingent do not get payroll, and this is Payroll costing , but the customer do not use the payroll and wants to keep Contingent Costing Segments.

Hi
Just curious about your requirement, why do you need to store the costing for the Contingent worker. If you want to know the actual cost in the GL, you can able to track it down from the Invoice that is paid for the vendor of this consultant
Regards
Ramesh S

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Oh yes, István is totally correct. I realized I had gotten my definition of Moving Average calculation wrong.
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1. Yes. It should be. But in your case this is an exception. It will still work even if the 0000 and 0001 don't have the same number of records.
2. You should only use it0027 if an employee is charging costs to two or more cost centers. You can define here the cost centers where they are charging and the percentage of division between cost centers
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