Enhancement of P6 Notebook Items

Arnold,



Understood HTH and fortunately It has a different meaning than in Spanish which it is a huge insult.



Thanks,



Cheers,

You’re Welcome.

HTH means "Hope this Help"



Regards,



Arnold

Arnold / Armando,



Thanks for your ideas. It seems that P6 has worsened an efficient P3 feature called log.



I will use UDF solution and minimize the content of my notes.



Qrious about HTH ??? means ???



Cheers,

Hi Carmen,



The only way you can do this is to create Two UDF text, say Notebook 1 & Notebook 2.



To show this in the bar label you can assign Notebook 1 at top & Notebook 2 at bottom position.





HTH.



Arnold

Arnold,



I do not have notebooks items. I have user defined text fields which I would like to be printed as bar labels.



Cheers,

Hi Carmen,



Ya, it is possible..Go to View --> Bar Chart Options, under General Tab, "Default Size for Notebook Items" Change the Width & Height.



Regards,



Arnold

Arnold,



I am copying all my notebooks items to text user defined fields.



In order to customize the text, the only way is by “Edit column dialog box” where I can define width of the text (pixels).



If I would like to have a long text split in two lines ?? Would it be possible???



Cheers,

Hi Arman,



It is not possible if you want to do it horizontally. Curtain, only allows vertically. Since you want to do it in rows, unfortunately it is not possible.



Arnold

Hi Arman,



Sorry, I didn’t get what you mean. Can you send me a snapshot to my email [email protected] so that I can figure out what you need.



Thanks.



Arnold

Hi Arman,



Regarding the Attachments --> Curtain --> Add curtain, if you need only for specific portion you can do this by specifying the start & Finish Date.



I am not sure if this is what you need.



Regards,



Arnold

Paul,



fully agree with you regarding the solution using text user defined fields.



Forget about netebook items.



Cheers,

By the way, I am using a P5 program.

Hi Paul,



I did use that Text User Defined Field to show my program’s notes in a column during my EOT program presentation. I am just wondering if you have encountered a problem with that Text User Defined Field that when I changed my layout and removed that column, then at later date reinstate that column again, most of my text inputs had vanished. If ever you’ve encountered such a problem, may I ask how is it done to retrieve those text inputs?



Thanks.



Ferdinand

I gave up Note Book Items a long time ago as they can not be shown in columns and are a pain to show on bars.



I create a text User Defined Field for my notes and type them in the UDF. Then they can be easily shown in columns or attached to bars, filtered and cut and pasted into Excel and simply imported.



Paul E Harris

Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers, Consulting and Training

www.eh.com.au

Armando,



Having the notebook items printed as part of the bar is a nightmare task. You are right in all your comments.



The solution proposed by Arnold is correct but it is not the proper ONE. Using View-attachment-TEXT you can add controllable text with a better shape.



Back to notebook items. P6 offers two important notebook categories for me such as: basis of schedule and current status. I strongly use these two categories as an official record of input from all leaders.



It was depressing to know that after having recorded any basis of schedule and status I was not able to print them. Well I did using the Arnold’s non-advisable solution.



Cheers,

carmen

Hi Armando,



You cannot align on top but, you can change the font.



You can also use the attachments. Right click on the gantt chart window --> Attachments --> Text. This is more easier in terms of text alignment but you have to save the layout after doing it. You can easily drag the text into position.



Regards,



Arnold