label a split task bar

[pocketbattle1]

how can i label a split task bar after the initial bar?

 

[John]

how can i label a split task bar after the initial bar?

pocketbattle,
Exactly what do you want to label? Information shown with Gantt bars can
contain several items of data and it can be located in many places in
and around the bar. Project has no special provisions for separately
labeling pieces of a split Gantt bar but that doesn't mean there aren't
ways to get there. It just depends on what you want to show and where.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[pocketbattle1]

pocketbattle,
Exactly what do you want to label? Information shown with Gantt bars can
contain several items of data and it can be located in many places in
and around the bar. Project has no special provisions for separately
labeling pieces of a split Gantt bar but that doesn't mean there aren't
ways to get there. It just depends on what you want to show and where.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

John,
well i have a repeating task that occurs at irregular intervals. and i need
to chart them on the same line. so i created the task and just extended the
bar and did the split task over and over as many times as that task occured.
now i know that if i right click on the bar itself, i can put the name inside
the bar. correct? but i want to be able to do that to all the bars that ive
split from the original bar....but its not letting me. i hope that clarified
what i need help with....if not ill have to think of another way of
explaining it. thanks for replying the first time.

 

[JackD]

That is the way it is. You only get text left, right, center above and
below.
I suppose if you really wanted, you could write some visual basic which
would look at the task, determine the number of splits, use a spare text
field to write out the task name that many times, determine the approximate
length of the text string and the total length of the task and set the
timescale accordingly, but it would probably not work for all tasks at the
same time.
Why not just create multiple tasks and roll them up to a summary task?
Working with split tasks is usually not a good thing.