Pattern on Summarized Bar

Rajeev



As I stated if you use that option "Display Summary indiviual bar will look very untidy. and its all over the place. Better stick with the organise view.



Cheers



Alex

Daya



my e-mail is alexwong6661@hotmail.com



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Alex

Sorry Rajiv



My observation was wrong. You can do it exactly what you want provided no overlapping of activities otherwise Summary bar will split into many bars at different level.



I tried your example. 4th floor activites Blockwork, Plaster and Painting Works. Format all three activity bars with 3 different colors. Then summarize at 4th floor I got Summary bar with 3 different color showing respective durations for each activity.



But when Plaster overlapped with Blockwork than Summary bar splitted into 3 bars at aligned at different level but showing activity duration and colour.



I followed this sequence Format>Summary Bars>Individual bar(any option).



Cheers.

Dear Alex,



Leave me your email id, or send a message to plannerdaya@yahoo.com i will send the screen shot of P3(Out put).



What i did, i followed your suggestion in the settings for the individual bar and summarized at higher level(after applying code values), the higher level will show summary of different individual bars of same group of course aligned in the same level but with different colors.



Cheers!!!



Daya

Hi Rajeev

You are trying to create a line of balance.

See previous I Would suggest you have a look at software on the market. Example Chainlink etc.

Chainlink does have a 30 Day Trail Download and is intergradable with P3.



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http://www.planningplanet.com/forum/forum_post.asp?fid=1&Cat=1&Top=9151

Three different colors in one summary bar. It is not possible in P3.



For such colorfull reporting I would use Excel.



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Daya



I think it cannot be done in that way to a summary bar - individual bar yes but not summary bar. Like you cannot assign 2 value to a single activity



Please verify



Alex

Rajeev, I got your question now. Yes it is possible to display different colors for the same type of summarised activities.



for example,



If you apply pattern color for Area/Department and summarize the responsibility band(before u have to do the adjustment in the setting as Alex suggested)you can see different colors aligned in the same line. It is a good presentation really to see same discipline people working at different locations as a single bar(with interruptions if applicable).





Cheers!!!





Daya

Rajeev,



Good question. But, I don’t understand why you want the bar to display all those colours when you are summarising the whole set of activities !!



well I am sorry,I don’t have the answer for you but, definitly would like to know how it helps.



cheers

Rajeev,

I don’t understand your question rajeev, in summarized bar(grouping of similar activities) how can you show two different codes?. explain me further to understand your question.



Cheers!!!



Daya

Hi,



You also can display the activity codes in grouping bands.



Go to Organize > Options. Mark the following checkbox for bar area:

1) Display group divider as bands

2) Text as value + description



Activity codes with the description will appear in a band at gantt chart area.



Regards.

The only way to display anything in summary bars is to set up display individual bars



To do that

Format - Summary Bar - Individual Bars



However, I would never use that format because it is very messy

Try to use organise to display your group coding is a lot more tidy



Cheers



Alex

Very Similar steps



Format - Bar

Modify Button

Label Tap

"+"

Location of your project code "Left, Right Center"

Then

Select your code

And Size of the font



Cheers



ALex

Rajeev



Thats how you do it with patterns display according to the activity code value





Select Format - Bar

in the lower left hand coner you will see a button call Pattern Select that it will open another windows

In the new windows you can select the activity code you want to assoicate with the patterns

then you can assign the actual code value to a particular patterns



This is a smart way to assign the patterns to a code value



Cheers



Alex