roll up summary bars

[Lisa]

I have no problem with rolling up subtasks to a summary bar, but I have 3
levels of planning ie

overall summary bar
summary bar
subtasks

On my overall summary bar, I only want the summary bars rolled up, and then
on the summary bars, the subtasks. Because the summary bars are just that -
summary bars, there is no choice to roll up to a summary bar as with
subtasks. Is there any way to do this - it is just getting too messy to have
all the subtasks showing, but I can't get enough instant info across with
nothing rolled up to the overall summary bar.

Any suggestions would be great - I a am very much a project novice!!

Thanks

Lisa

 

[Jim Aksel]

Project offers the following choices-
1. Outline Level -- you can display all tasks, or tasks at certain levels of
indenture.
2. Summary Task Filter (from the Filter Dropdown on the Formatting Toolbar)

With tasks rolled up to their respective summaries, you can always use the +
sign on the summary to manually expose the level of detail desired. Manually
walk through your schedule to create some tasks open, others closed.

3. For more complex presentations, insert a field such as Flag1. Set the
desired rows to display to "Yes" and then filter to Flag1=yes.

4. Other filters are possible either from the dropdown or autofilter for
youself

Using these four tips together, you should get whatever you need.
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[Richard Nguyen]

Hi Jim:

The filter does work; however, certain subtasks showed up in Summary bar. A
few subtasks failed to show up in same Summar bar. I looked at Task
Information and did not see anything differences in a working rows and the
non-working rows.

Is there a flaw with Project 2003 that I should have a patch/fix for?

Thanks