Display Critical Path with Summary Tasks

[Roy Lyford-Pike]

Does anyone know how to display the CP in the Gantt chart going through
Summary Tasks? When I collapse items on the CP to their Summary Task, the red
line disappears. I know the Summary Task may not have all tasks under it as
critical, but even if it does, the red line disappears.

 

[Roy Lyford-Pike]

Thanks, Trevor. I'll give this a try.
Regards,
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Roy Lyford-Pike, PMP
SAP America, Inc.

When you run the Gantt Chart Wizard to show Critical Tasks, all it does is
makes a few changes to Bar Styles (and runs Layout to change the option to
have arrows or not.
After you see how it changes the Bar Styles you can do it yourself and not
rely on the Wizard because it doesn't do enough and is not surgical enough.
The Wizard adds a row to the Bar Styles for the red bar for Critical Tasks
but it does not do the same for Milestones or Summaries even though they can
be Critical because they can have zero Total Slack (Float).
Just add a row after the black Summaries bar for Critical Summaries and one
after the Milestone black diamond for Critical Milestones.
Putting the rows after is important.
Give them a title in the first column (this is what will appear in the
legend), make the bar and diamond red and use "Summary,Critical" and
"Milestone,Critical" as the combination criteria in the the 3rd column.

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