Can't See New Task on Tracking Gantt?

[Gary]

Hi all, hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having with project for
work. Currently I am in the process of tweeking and changing little things
like durations and dates within Project in relation to my works overall
programme of projects, before rebase-lining the whole thing in April.

One thing that we're doing is adding another task in each project ( a
Maintenance phase after our Construction phase), now I can see this
maintenance phase in the Gantt view but when I switch to the Tracking Gantt
view the phase is gone/not there and there's only the construction phase with
a linking arrow to nothing.

If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it.

Gay.

 

[JulieS]

Hi all, hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having with
project for
work. Currently I am in the process of tweeking and changing little
things
like durations and dates within Project in relation to my works
overall
programme of projects, before rebase-lining the whole thing in April.

One thing that we're doing is adding another task in each project ( a
Maintenance phase after our Construction phase), now I can see this
maintenance phase in the Gantt view but when I switch to the Tracking
Gantt
view the phase is gone/not there and there's only the construction
phase with
a linking arrow to nothing.

If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it.

Gay.

Hello Gary,

Have you modified your Tracking Gantt chart to only show baseline bars?
(Check Format > Bar Styles) Have you saved a baseline for the
Maintenance task?
I assume the Maintenance task is not a subtask and collapsed up under
the Construction phase task? (Choose Show > All Subtasks from the
Formatting toolbar) I assume no filters are applied to the view? (Make
sure "All Tasks" is displayed in the filter drop-down.)

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
about Microsoft Project

 

[Gary]

JulieS

Thanks for the tips, but nothings changed unfortunately.

I have modified the Tracking Gantt (Format>Bar Styles) for baseline bars
although I haven't yet rebase-lined although I assume once I do that the
baseline bar will appear although it's not the baseline bar I'm having the
problem with at present.

No filters have been applied to the view, "All Tasks" is showing. The
Maintenance and Construction phases along with a couple of other phases are
subtasks of the summary task (which is the project title). Now in the Gannt
Chart view I can open up each project and see all the subtask linked one
after the other, Maintenance being the last one. However when I switch to the
Tracking Gantt view and open up any project all the subtasks are able to be
seen linked to one another except Maintenance which has disappeared, the last
one being construction and a linking arrow as I said linking to nothing. It's
not that I can't see the baseline bars it's that in Tracking Gantt view I
can't see the subtask bar for the Maintenance phase in the Tracking Gantt
chart.

I hope that all makes sense!

Gary.

 

[JulieS]

Hello Gary,

Makes perfect sense, as you describe it, but it does make for a puzzler.

Did you customize the display of tasks in the Tracking Gantt view and
change the one of the task bars to white? I'd guess it's the critical
task bar that's been customized if the Maintenance task is the last task
in the project.

If you'd care to, zip the offending file and send it along to me by
email. I'll take a peek and see if I can spot the trouble. My email is
prjng[at]maine.rr.com. Replace the [at] with @.

Julie

 

[Gary]

JulieS, email sent to you with a shortened version of my programme but still
with the problem.

Very much appreciated!
--
Project for Work, Cigars for Pleasure

Hello Gary,

Makes perfect sense, as you describe it, but it does make for a puzzler.

Did you customize the display of tasks in the Tracking Gantt view and
change the one of the task bars to white? I'd guess it's the critical
task bar that's been customized if the Maintenance task is the last task
in the project.

If you'd care to, zip the offending file and send it along to me by
email. I'll take a peek and see if I can spot the trouble. My email is
prjng[at]maine.rr.com. Replace the [at] with @.

Julie

 

[JulieS]

For those following, it was an issue with custom bar definitions and not
having the correct Flag field set to pick up the bar style.

Julie

JulieS, email sent to you with a shortened version of my programme but
still
with the problem.

Very much appreciated!
--
Project for Work, Cigars for Pleasure

Hello Gary,

Makes perfect sense, as you describe it, but it does make for a
puzzler.

Did you customize the display of tasks in the Tracking Gantt view and
change the one of the task bars to white? I'd guess it's the critical
task bar that's been customized if the Maintenance task is the last
task
in the project.

If you'd care to, zip the offending file and send it along to me by
email. I'll take a peek and see if I can spot the trouble. My email
is
prjng[at]maine.rr.com. Replace the [at] with @.

Julie

JulieS

Thanks for the tips, but nothings changed unfortunately.

I have modified the Tracking Gantt (Format>Bar Styles) for baseline
bars
although I haven't yet rebase-lined although I assume once I do
that
the
baseline bar will appear although it's not the baseline bar I'm
having
the
problem with at present.

No filters have been applied to the view, "All Tasks" is showing.
The
Maintenance and Construction phases along with a couple of other
phases are
subtasks of the summary task (which is the project title). Now in
the
Gannt
Chart view I can open up each project and see all the subtask
linked
one
after the other, Maintenance being the last one. However when I
switch
to the
Tracking Gantt view and open up any project all the subtasks are
able
to be
seen linked to one another except Maintenance which has
disappeared,
the last
one being construction and a linking arrow as I said linking to
nothing. It's
not that I can't see the baseline bars it's that in Tracking Gantt
view I
can't see the subtask bar for the Maintenance phase in the Tracking
Gantt
chart.

I hope that all makes sense!

Gary.
--
Project for Work, Cigars for Pleasure


:

Hi all, hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having
with
project for
work. Currently I am in the process of tweeking and changing
little
things
like durations and dates within Project in relation to my works
overall
programme of projects, before rebase-lining the whole thing in
April.

One thing that we're doing is adding another task in each
project
( a
Maintenance phase after our Construction phase), now I can see
this
maintenance phase in the Gantt view but when I switch to the
Tracking
Gantt
view the phase is gone/not there and there's only the
construction
phase with
a linking arrow to nothing.

If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it.

Gay.
--
Project for Work, Cigars for Pleasure

Hello Gary,

Have you modified your Tracking Gantt chart to only show baseline
bars?
(Check Format > Bar Styles) Have you saved a baseline for the
Maintenance task?
I assume the Maintenance task is not a subtask and collapsed up
under
the Construction phase task? (Choose Show > All Subtasks from the
Formatting toolbar) I assume no filters are applied to the view?
(Make
sure "All Tasks" is displayed in the filter drop-down.)

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information
about Microsoft Project