Display different phases of a single task on one line

[simjambra]

Hello!

I'm trying to display different phases of a single task on one line i
Project 2007.

There are over 40 individual tasks on the Gantt chart I am using an
each of these will contain separate phases. I would like to represen
these phases as bars in a different colour so it's easy to pick out th
length of each distinct section of the task (e.g. Planning, Approval
Implementation). Is it possible to do this?

Thanks for your help in advanc

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

You would have to break the task into four subtasks, add dependencies, modify
the bar styles, then use the rollup options to roll the subtasks to the summary.

Check out the help screen for the Rollup field.

For Bar Styles, you'd probably need to create four flag fields (Planning,
Approval, Implementation, etc.) and then flag each subtask as to which code
it is. Then doublelick on the Gantt Chart, and play with creating multiple
bar styles based off of each of the flag fields. I'd have to play with it
to figure out how to get the colors to roll up correctly, but it should be
doable.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[simjambra]

I will give this a go. Many thanks for your response.

 

[John]

You would have to break the task into four subtasks, add dependencies, modify
the bar styles, then use the rollup options to roll the subtasks to the
summary.

Check out the help screen for the Rollup field.

For Bar Styles, you'd probably need to create four flag fields (Planning,
Approval, Implementation, etc.) and then flag each subtask as to which code
it is. Then doublelick on the Gantt Chart, and play with creating multiple
bar styles based off of each of the flag fields. I'd have to play with it
to figure out how to get the colors to roll up correctly, but it should be
doable.

- Andrew Lavinsky

Andrew,
This exact same question was asked by "Richard", (I suspect he is
"simjambra"), on Tuesday of this week. I answered the question then.

John
Project MVP

 

[simjambra]

Hi there... Richard is actually my colleague who asked me the questio
and I couldn't answer so I put it on here. Very embarrassed that he'
already gone down that route.

Sincere apologies for the re-post!

I'll try a few more searches next time but I do appreciate the response
so thanks anyway

 

[Steve House]

As Andrew said .... keep in mind that a task is a single activity done by a
single skill package producing a single deliverable. Your 4 phases are
quite different activities and each produces a unique delivable (ie, the
Plan, the Approval, etc). You don't have just one task, you have at least 4
and I would suspect you really have many more than that, since "planning,"
for example, and certainly "implementation" would usually be the sum of a
lot of different individual resources' activities in their own right.

 

[John]

As Andrew said .... keep in mind that a task is a single activity done by a
single skill package producing a single deliverable. Your 4 phases are
quite different activities and each produces a unique delivable (ie, the
Plan, the Approval, etc). You don't have just one task, you have at least 4
and I would suspect you really have many more than that, since "planning,"
for example, and certainly "implementation" would usually be the sum of a
lot of different individual resources' activities in their own right.

Steve,
I take it a "unique delivable" is a one-of-a-kind condition that is not
livable, right?



John

 

[Steve House]

ROFL - my stiff senior's fingers playing tricks on me again.