Functional Band problem

[Paul]

Hi,

I using visio 2003 and have a problem with cross functional flowchart.

I have 4 functional bands from Cross Functional flowchart shapes. Within the
Functional bands I have several Cylindrical timelines from the timeline
shapes. On the timelines I have milestones and above the milestone there is
a date in text and below there is the name of the milestone and from some of
the milestones there is a arrow line which points to another milestone.

My problem is that when I increase to width of the first functional band the
timeline and arrowline in the other three functional bands don't move but
the milestones and text all move in accordance with the new width. How do I
get so everything moves with the adjusted width?

I hope I have explained this problem clear enough.

Thanks for you help

Paul

 

[Paul]

Does anyone have the answer to my question are do you need to explain a bit
more?
If I can find an answer it would really save me a lot of time.

Thanks

Paul

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi,

I using visio 2003 and have a problem with cross functional flowchart.

I have 4 functional bands from Cross Functional flowchart shapes. Within
the Functional bands I have several Cylindrical timelines from the
timeline shapes. On the timelines I have milestones and above the
milestone there is a date in text and below there is the name of the
milestone and from some of the milestones there is a arrow line which
points to another milestone.

My problem is that when I increase to width of the first functional band
the timeline and arrowline in the other three functional bands don't move
but the milestones and text all move in accordance with the new width. How
do I get so everything moves with the adjusted width?

Hi Paul,
It appears that when the cross-functional swinlanes are resizes onluy
certain types of shapes can be moved with the swimlanes. Unfortunately
the timeline shapes cannot be moved automaticaly. This behaviour is
also true of the Annotation and Control Transfer shapes from the
Flowchart shapes so it's nothing about the timeline shapes in
particular.

 

[Paul]

Thanks Paul for your reply. I feel this a fault with Visio. If you adjust
the width of the cross fuctional swimlanes then everything within the lanes
should adjust accordingly. Do you agree? This is a real pain as these are
milestones on a Project timelines showing a high level view of progress
across the Programme and the width of the swimlanes are often adjusted as
new projects are established. I will have to think of a new way of showing
this information as it cannot be resolved

 

[Paul Herber]

Well, yes and no, I don't think the cross-functional swimlanes and the
code behind them were designed to work with project timelines.
Timeline shapes are controlled by the timeline add-on.

Thanks Paul for your reply. I feel this a fault with Visio. If you adjust
the width of the cross fuctional swimlanes then everything within the lanes
should adjust accordingly. Do you agree? This is a real pain as these are
milestones on a Project timelines showing a high level view of progress
across the Programme and the width of the swimlanes are often adjusted as
new projects are established. I will have to think of a new way of showing
this information as it cannot be resolved

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

I have not heard of combining these two diagram types before. It almost
sounds like a Gantt Chart, which you can think of as a stack of timelines.
Is that what you are building with these two diagram types, or are you using
the swimlanes for another purpose?

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Well, yes and no, I don't think the cross-functional swimlanes and the
code behind them were designed to work with project timelines.
Timeline shapes are controlled by the timeline add-on.

 

[David Parker]

Mark, FYI, such a solution was recently demonstrated at the Project
conference in Redmond, where key milestones from multiple projects were
displayed automatically in Visio ... I know 'coz I wrote it.

BTW, the timelines's Begin and End formulae were set in code to be relative
to the Swimlane ... thus they all resize automatically.

I have not heard of combining these two diagram types before. It almost
sounds like a Gantt Chart, which you can think of as a stack of timelines.
Is that what you are building with these two diagram types, or are you
using the swimlanes for another purpose?

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

 

[Paul]

Hi Mark,

You are right. Combining this information makes it very clear what projects
are in the various stages (each stage has a different functional band) of
the Programme. The timelines contains the key milestones of each project and
there are links to/from milestones across the stages which shows the
dependencies for each project. Please remember that this is a high level
view for presentational purposes. Underpining this there are individual
microsoft project plans which contain the lower level details.

Regards

Paul

I have not heard of combining these two diagram types before. It almost
sounds like a Gantt Chart, which you can think of as a stack of timelines.
Is that what you are building with these two diagram types, or are you
using the swimlanes for another purpose?

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.