pawelous said:
I find the easiest way to see how different resources and their tasks need to
interact in a Gantt chart is with color.
Changing task bar and milestone colors manually is like counting grains of
sand. Surely there is a way to automate this based on which resources are
assigned to a task?
Anyone?
There's an FAQ for this particular problem. However, it goes something
like this:
- Create a formula in the Flag 1 field such that it sets the flag to
true if Resource 1 is assigned to a task and false otherwise
- Create a formula in the Flag 2 field such that it sets the flag to
true if Resource 2 is assigned to a task and false otherwise
- Repeat the above steps for each of the resources
- Create a new bar style with your preferred colour for Flag 1 (which
corresponds to Resource 1)
- Create a new bar style with your preferred colour for Flag 2 (which
corresponds to Resource 2)
- Repeat for each of the flags you have created
You have to decide what behaviour you want if more than one resource is
assigned to a task.
Alternatively, isn't adding the resource names column an easier route?
You can of course filter for tasks using particular resources.
