P6 Summary Bar Display

Hi Johannes, the schedule is based upon the actual tasks, just rolled up to the lowest level of coding in my Group and Sort, so that only summary bars are shown.  If you'd like to see my problem, create a programme with 5 or so activities, and then create 4 activity codes, each with 4 values.  Then assign a value for each of the codes to each activity.  Then group and sort by the 4 activity codes, and then collapse to the lowest of these 4 "levels".  Initially you might not see any bars - there are 2 ways I've found to show them - firstly, tick the "Summary" bar to display under the "Bar" menu, or secondly, tick the "Show bar for grouping bands" option under "Bar Settings" for the "Remaining Work" bar.  Unfortunately, both of these just produce something that shows every summary level with the same bar, which isn't what I'm after....

Cheers,

James.

Johannes

Hi all, it seems I haven't explained myself properly.  I don't want P6 to show the bar based upon the code value, as all of my tasks have a value for each code, and it's not the actual code value that matters.  I'd like to change to bar style for the "level", or Grouping Band when I view the programme Grouped and Sorted by the activity codes.

So if I've got 4 Activity Codes (Code 1 to 4), each with 4 Code Values (Value A to D), the layout (rolled up so I don't see the actual tasks) is (I've used a different format for each "level"):

Code 1: A

   Code 2: A

    Code 3: B

      Code 4: C

      Code 4: D

  Code 2: B

    Code 3: C

      Code 4: A

      Code 4: B

    Code 3: D

      Code 4: B

      Code 4: C

Code 1: B

  Code 2: A

    Code 3: C

      Code 4: A

The problem I've got is that whatever I do, the summary bar shown for each of these "levels" look the same.

Johannes - this is an internal programme that actually won't have any logic in it, and is more for presenting to company management, hence no need for a WBS.

Thanks all,

Jimbo.