Tailored calendar view in Project

[Ridgeroad]

I'd like to be able to tailor different bar styles in the "Calendar view" in
Project - in the same way that you can in "Gannt view". Anybody know if this
is possible - and if so how?

 

[JulieS]

Hi Ridgeroad,

There are many more options in the Gantt chart view. What few there are in
Calendar view you can access through Format -> Bar Styles in the menu.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Ridgeroad]

Thanks for the prompt response - it confirmed my fears that the Calendar view
bar styles are limited (somewhat restrictively and arbitarily) to a few named
standard types. I'd like to set flags and display differently flagged
activities with different bar styles.

 

[JulieS]

Yes, sorry. About the closest thing to flagged fields is the "marked" task
choice, but you only have the choice of formatting marked tasks differently.

Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

 

[Mike_P]

I am attempting to assign different colors to task bars in the calendar view,
based on the subproject that the task belongs to. If that is not possible,
then I may explore adding additional text to the task bars that would denote
which subproject each task is attached to.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Mike,

I use this personally.
I frequently run a macro:

Sub Concatenate
dim Job as task
for each job in activeproject.tasks
if not job is nothing then
if job.outlinelevel>1 then
job.text1=job.outlineparent.name & " " & job.name
end if
end if
next job
end sub

Then in the Calendar View, Format, Bar Styles, show Text1 instead of Name.
HTH