Show percent complete of filtered view

[elbyc]

Is there any way to show the percent complete of a group of tasks
shown through a filter?
That is, I have a project of about 300 tasks, all in subgroups. 9 or
10 of the tasks have been flagged, and appear in a view developed for
a senior executive who only wants to track those tasks. Is there a way
of getting the percent complete to reflect the total of those tasks,
rather than the whole project?

 

[Jim Aksel]

Make sure all the fields you want to show are visible. Do not use the
filter. Instead, Project/Group By/Customize Group By...

Choose your flag field as the grouping. After you have grouped, apply your
filter (or just collapse the "No Value" grouping).

To get back to the original: Project/Group By/No Group.
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[elbyc]

Thanks - this a useful tip, especially if Show Summary tasks is
checked. There are a few drawbacks: The indentation of the subtasks
gets lost, and there is no way that I can see to customize the title
of the group other than renaming the field, so I'm getting a
highlighted row that says "[My custom field name]:Yes". However, when
I'm ready to print, I could just take a look at the grouped view, read
the percent complete and then manually update the header of my regular
filtered view (which is a bit more readable).

To that end, I don't suppose there is a way to access the percent
complete of a group programatically? Perhaps I'll look into a VBA
option.