How do I display multiple milestones on one line
@discussions.microsoft.com Michael
want to display them on one line in Project rather than have to enter 24
lines.
Rob Schneider
The purpose of Project is to compute a schedule. It sounds like you
have 24 independent tasks of zero duration (milestones) and your purpose
of using Project is to just display them? They are 24 different items
of the same "type", but different none the less. Thus they need to be
shown 24 times if you chose to show them. If your purpose is simply to
display them, then perhaps use a different tool?
You easily enter the 24 tasks using the recuring task (on the insert
Menu), but the will go in 24 times.
--rms
Jim Aksel
Since each milestone represents a descrete event, they are really separate
tasks. So, you are going to need to make 24 lines of milestones.
That said, you can collapse all 24 of those lines onto a single 25th line
that is a summary of them with all 24 milestones spread on one line. What
you will do is collapse this summary task to hide the subodinate 24 lines and
only display the 1 line with 24 milestones on it.
Now for the tedious boring stuff. You can insert a recurring task with the
24 items under it if you want, but I will explain the long steps in case you
do not want to do that.
1. Create a single line: Monthly Reports
2. Create 24 lines indented under Montly Reports and name them as you wish
such as Report#1, Report#2, etc. (This is where the recurring task would be a
benefit).
3. Highlight all 24 tasks and select the Task Information icon from the
toolbar or do Shift+F2.
4. On the general tab, select "Roll Up Gantt Bar to Summary"
Now you have your milestones all on one line, but you have to turn off the
formatting of the summary bar so you don't have a black line running though
it.
5. Go to the General tab of the Task Information Dialog on the single
summary task. Make sure "Show Rolled Up Gantt bars" IS selected. click OK
6. On the gantt itself, right click on the specific summary bar and select
"Format Bar". From there, change the bar shapes for begining, middle, and
end to all be a blank symbol. Click OK
Now you have just a bunch diamonds for the milestones.
If you want to change the format of the diamonds (since they are different
than those below), you can do that on the Format menu. On the main menu:
7. Select Format/Bar Styles...
8. Select "*Rolled Up Milestones" and change the appearance and test to your
liking.
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:)
Jim
Trevor Rabey
important question of "Should I?"
You can waste a lot of time (yours and other's) doing things which don't
need to be done or which should not be done, especially if it means other
things which should be done don't get done.
You don't say why you would rather have them all strung out on one line.
Is it just a whim?
There is nothing wrong with 24 lines.
There is no shortage of available lines.
Do it the easy way, use Insert, Recurring Task and accept the 24 lines.
As well as what the other guys have said, there is another way to do this.
It is tedious, even more tedious than Jim's suggestion.
Now we are having a competition to see who can produce an unnecessary result
the hardest way possible, just for fun.
It is faster to do it than it is to explain it, but here goes.
Make a Task with 24 days duration.
I am going to split the task 24 times (or is it 23?).
Start the Task on a Monday.
Set the Status Date to the end of the 5th Monday (Project, Project
information).
Set Actual Duration to 1 day (Tracking Table).
Reschedule Remaining (3rd button, Tracking Toolbar).
Set the Status Date to the end of the 11th Monday.
etc, repeat 24 times or whatever until the bar is used up.
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Jim Aksel
less space on the page or a PPT slide.
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Muelaner@discussions.microsoft.com Jody Muelaner
What is really required is to create the 24 separate tasks (using a
recurring task) and the summary task. Then when displaying the Gantt for
reporting purposes collapse the summary to hide the individual tasks BUT have
the summary display multiple milestones rather than a spanning bar.
Is there any way to do anything like this?
Rob Schneider
24 items:
Menu: Insert Recurring Task, give it a name, duration=0, set the
recurrance pattern and range, you'll see it sets up the 24 task with a
summary line which shows the rolled up milestones. You still need and
have the 24 tasks (which you were originally trying to avoid).
--rms
JulieS
The Insert > Recurring task command does precisely what you describe.
Set the recurrence to monthly, pick the pattern, repeat for 24 occurrences.
I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.
Julie
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