Summary Bar in color?

[regattagirl]

From asking previously on this message board, I know how to programmatically
assign colored bars to each of my resources using:

Customized Fields, Formula, & IIf([Resource Names]="John Smith",Yes,No) and
then going into the bars and assigning colors.

But now the Summary bar is being colored too even if there are multiple
resources under that summary of tasks. I have no summary bars assigned to
colors.

Help?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Well, teh summary bar has flag fields as well., so its coloring may be
influenced by the setting of these flags (default=no)
A simple solution may be to move the line (in Bar Styles) for "Summary" to
below all conditional styles.
HTH

 

[regattagirl]

Okay, so changing the flags to "no" fixes it. The problem was that my
expectation was that it wouldn't "hold over" a previous value when it was
broken into more tasks and became the summary row.

Thank you.

Well, teh summary bar has flag fields as well., so its coloring may be
influenced by the setting of these flags (default=no)
A simple solution may be to move the line (in Bar Styles) for "Summary" to
below all conditional styles.
HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

From asking previously on this message board, I know how to programmatically
assign colored bars to each of my resources using:

Customized Fields, Formula, & IIf([Resource Names]="John Smith",Yes,No) and
then going into the bars and assigning colors.

But now the Summary bar is being colored too even if there are multiple
resources under that summary of tasks. I have no summary bars assigned to
colors.

Help?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

You're welcome!

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

Okay, so changing the flags to "no" fixes it. The problem was that my
expectation was that it wouldn't "hold over" a previous value when it was
broken into more tasks and became the summary row.

Thank you.

Well, teh summary bar has flag fields as well., so its coloring may be
influenced by the setting of these flags (default=no)
A simple solution may be to move the line (in Bar Styles) for "Summary" to
below all conditional styles.
HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

From asking previously on this message board, I know how to programmatically
assign colored bars to each of my resources using:

Customized Fields, Formula, & IIf([Resource Names]="John

Smith",Yes,No)
and

then going into the bars and assigning colors.

But now the Summary bar is being colored too even if there are multiple
resources under that summary of tasks. I have no summary bars assigned to
colors.

Help?

 

[van der Linden]

I have an extra question, I would like to see the flag colours in front of
the summary tasks. But... moving the flag field under the summary task field
doesn't help, the summary stays in front of the colour. In another file where
the order is ok, the view is also ok. Has anyone an idea how this can be
solved? (I won't like to copy-paste all the tasks into that other file, a lot
of settings will get lost)

Thanks in advance!

 

[John]

I have an extra question, I would like to see the flag colours in front of
the summary tasks. But... moving the flag field under the summary task field
doesn't help, the summary stays in front of the colour. In another file where
the order is ok, the view is also ok. Has anyone an idea how this can be
solved? (I won't like to copy-paste all the tasks into that other file, a lot
of settings will get lost)

Thanks in advance!

Van der Linden,
I'm afraid you will need to explain in a little more detail. What "flag"
colors, do you mean graphical indicators? What do you mean by, "...in
front of the summary tasks"? What do you mean by, "...the flag field
under the summary task field..."? What is the "summary task field"? And
finally, what do you mean by, "...the summary stays in front of the
colour"?

I'm sure it is quite clear to you but I am thinking in terms of Project
fields and how those fields are displayed as columns in a view. I could
make some assumptions about what you mean but I might be wrong. I'd
rather understand what you want and then be able to give you a good
answer the first time.

John
Project MVP

 

[van der Linden]

Thanks for your reaction,

Ok, I try to make it a somewhat clearer:
I thought that in 'Bar Styles', Project is using the following order: the
next style is overruling the first and so on to the last one, so the last
style will always be seen.
The problem is that my summary bars are not the right color: I colored the
'normal' bars with a flagfield, thats no problem. I also colored the summary
bars and I would like Project to print this color over the summary bar. The
color has to be in front of the standard black summary bar, so you could only
see the endings of the summary bar and in the middle the color (by
flagfield). Somehow this is not working, even not when I changed the order in
'Bar Styles'. Can there be something else wrong?

Thanks in advance!

 

[John]

Thanks for your reaction,

Ok, I try to make it a somewhat clearer:
I thought that in 'Bar Styles', Project is using the following order: the
next style is overruling the first and so on to the last one, so the last
style will always be seen.
The problem is that my summary bars are not the right color: I colored the
'normal' bars with a flagfield, thats no problem. I also colored the summary
bars and I would like Project to print this color over the summary bar. The
color has to be in front of the standard black summary bar, so you could only
see the endings of the summary bar and in the middle the color (by
flagfield). Somehow this is not working, even not when I changed the order in
'Bar Styles'. Can there be something else wrong?

Thanks in advance!

van der Linden,
Thanks, that now makes a little more sense but I still have a few
questions. First of all, you are correct about how Project applies bar
styles - the lower the style is in the list the higher its "priority".

I still don't quite understand your statement about coloring the "normal
bars with a flag field. What does that have to so with the summary bars?
Are you looking for a rollup?

If I understand what you want for summary bars it does work. Here is
what I did. First, the default bar style for the summary bar is an
"upside down house" at the start and finish and an upper bar shape in
the middle. Everything is in black. I added another summary bar after
the default bar in the list (although it could be anywhere after the
default). For that added bar, I set it to be in red with an upper bar
shape and nothing at the start and finish. I then set the "Show
for...Tasks" to be Flag1. When I set the flag on a summary line, that
summary bar shows up with the red bar over the default summary bar but
the black start and finish symbols still appear, just as you want.

John
Project MVP