Duel Task Bars in same task?

[JimEvens]

Hello. I am trying to add multiple task bars to one task. IE I have a
Design Time and a Install time. Originally I did Design time + install
time = during (days) and got the bar that came up. However. I would like
to seperate these two so you can see maybe design time in blue and
install time in red. I did use the split function but any other features
that would make this more or so to scale say if design time is only 1
day and install time is 35. Okay Thank you very much.

 

[JulieS]

Hello JimEvens,

Project does not have the ability to change single task bar color
mid-bar. My suggestion is to create the two tasks - design and
install -- as subtasks of a summary task. You can then choose to
rollup the individual bars to the summary bar.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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[Mike Oliver, PMP, MCTS Project 2007]

Jim,

Here's another alternative for you to consider... If you use Start1 and
Finish1 to denote the date range for Design and Start2 and Finish2 to denote
the date range for Install, you could than add two Bar Styles to a Gantt
Chart view which respectively 'key' from Start1/Finish1 and Start2/Finish2.
This would let you display two bars simultaneously for a single task (for
that matter, you could also display the overarching bar for the task at the
same time, depending on which Middle Shapes you select for both the two new
styles you define and the Bar Style definition for Normal tasks.

There are several variations on a theme in which you could engage (i.e.
letting Start1 be 'calculated' by the task's Start date and Finish2 be
calculated as the task's Finish date, and then working out some calculation
to automatically calculated Finish1 and Start2), especially since you haven't
shared all the details of what you're attempting to do.

However... (LOL!), even though this is within the 'art of the possible', I'd
still consider going with Julie's recommendation from a pure PPM scheduling
perspective. I'd personally much rather put the burden of automatically
calculating schedule details on Microsoft Project, which is the major benefit
of following Julie's recommendation. Going the the path you've started
(further aided by what I've proposed above), increases the amount of manual
effort on your part necessary to maintain the accuracy of schedule detail.

Hope this helps -- thanks!