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Hawk
Hi - was reading through the posts on the below thread (titled "Multiple
Task Bars In One Row") and was hoping I could add a question to it...
I've been able to show it like you describe. However, is there any way to
select a custom flag for one of the summary tasks instead of having to select
specific tasks to "roll up" to the summary task? for instance, task A, B, C
and D roll up to a
summary task. Instead of selecting tasks A-D individually and "flagging"
them so they display a color bar, is there a way to just use the custom
"flag" to flag the summary task and have the summary task display the color
bar?
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Hello Nuncias,
Sure, this can be accomplished with flag fields and some custom bar
styles. In your scenario, with 3 tasks (A,B,C) you wish to show in
different color:
Insert Flag1, Flag2, and Flag3 fields into your task table.
For Task A, set Flag1 to Yes, leave Flag2 and Flag3 to No.
For Task B, set Flag2, to Yes, leave Flag1 and Flag3 to No.
For Task C, set Flag3 to Yes, leave Flag1 and Flag2 to No.
Choose Format > Bar Styles and find the bar definition for *Rolled Up
Task. Select the bar and choose Cut Row (once) and then Paste Row 3
times. You are going to create a custom bar for each Flag. In the
first *Rolled Up Task row, change the name as you need, select a
different color for the appearance of the bar and in the Show For...
section, edit the list to add Flag1. Repeat for the Flag2 task and
Flag3 tasks.
You can insert as many as 20 flag fields to get up to 20 different
combinations. You can also remove the flag fields from the table once
you've set the flag choices as needed.
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
Task Bars In One Row") and was hoping I could add a question to it...
I've been able to show it like you describe. However, is there any way to
select a custom flag for one of the summary tasks instead of having to select
specific tasks to "roll up" to the summary task? for instance, task A, B, C
and D roll up to a
summary task. Instead of selecting tasks A-D individually and "flagging"
them so they display a color bar, is there a way to just use the custom
"flag" to flag the summary task and have the summary task display the color
bar?
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Hello Nuncias,
Sure, this can be accomplished with flag fields and some custom bar
styles. In your scenario, with 3 tasks (A,B,C) you wish to show in
different color:
Insert Flag1, Flag2, and Flag3 fields into your task table.
For Task A, set Flag1 to Yes, leave Flag2 and Flag3 to No.
For Task B, set Flag2, to Yes, leave Flag1 and Flag3 to No.
For Task C, set Flag3 to Yes, leave Flag1 and Flag2 to No.
Choose Format > Bar Styles and find the bar definition for *Rolled Up
Task. Select the bar and choose Cut Row (once) and then Paste Row 3
times. You are going to create a custom bar for each Flag. In the
first *Rolled Up Task row, change the name as you need, select a
different color for the appearance of the bar and in the Show For...
section, edit the list to add Flag1. Repeat for the Flag2 task and
Flag3 tasks.
You can insert as many as 20 flag fields to get up to 20 different
combinations. You can also remove the flag fields from the table once
you've set the flag choices as needed.
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
Nuncias said:Thanks, the problem is we'd like to show the different tasks in one
bar, with
different color fills for each task.
Think of one bar containing three consecutive tasks, each must finish
for
the next to begin, if the project were nine months long and each task
was
three months in duration the bar would be divided into three sections,
each a
different color/fill.
Is this possible?
JulieS said:Nuncias said:Hope someone can help. what I'm trying to do is display multiple,
consecutive
taskbars in one line on a Gantt chart. The boss doesn't want the
bars
displayed in the "waterfall" manner and I've been unsuccessful in
finding a
way to do this.
Thanks,
Hello Nuncias,
You can roll up subtasks to a summary bar. Select the subtasks and
then
show the Task Information dialog (Project > Task Information or use
the
button on the Standard toolbar). On the General tab, enable the
"Show
rolled up Gantt bars" option. Then when you collapse up the summary
bar
(click the [-]) you'll see each individual subtask bar on the
Summary.
I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.
Julie
Project MVP