Filters stopped filtering - will only highlight??

[Ben Goldberg]

All of a sudden all of the filters in my project work only as highlight filters. When I select the filter it highlights the rows being filtered but continues to show all other rows. I don't want this - I want to just show filtered rows. Is there some global switch that could have been turned on?

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

There isn't a global switch, so it sounds like a minor file corruption. Try:
Open the file in Project
Immediately press Ctrl+S for save. This forces Project into some basic file
housekeeping.
You can also try saving to a .mpd database then back again to .mpp file.

If all your filters are damaged, you may have corrupted your Global.Mpt
file. In which case:
Use Windows Explorer to find the Global.Mpt file on your C: drive.
Rename it (EG TO Global Old.Mpt). Note that you may have more than one copy
if you have had more than one version of Project on your PC. Rename them all
Start Project and it should create a new Global.Mpt file and with it new
filters.

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All of a sudden all of the filters in my project work only as highlight

filters. When I select the filter it highlights the rows being filtered but
continues to show all other rows. I don't want this - I want to just show
filtered rows. Is there some global switch that could have been turned on?

 

[JackD]

This is unusual.
I know of no global switch. Does this occur with all files?
Try creating a new filter from scratch.
If it is just a problem with the file, then you might try the traditional
partial cure for corruption - save to a database and then read back.

-Jack

All of a sudden all of the filters in my project work only as highlight

filters. When I select the filter it highlights the rows being filtered but
continues to show all other rows. I don't want this - I want to just show
filtered rows. Is there some global switch that could have been turned on?

 

[Guest]

I figured this out. My view had changed and the view has a
global option for HIGHLIGHT FILTER. When I went back to
the standard Gant view everything started working fine.

Ben