Format Gantt bars per project in a consolidated project?

[tommcbrny]

Hello,

Some quick background: I've set up a consolidated project using a shared
resource pool thanks to tutorial 17 from Mike's Tutorials.

The issue: I formatted Gantt bars in one of the projects I've pulled in to
the master in red and hoped that they'd stay red in the master project. They
reverted to blue, however, which I suppose is the default in the Master
project.

My question: Can I format only the Gantt bars for one project in a master
project that contains several projects? (short of changing the color on each
bar for each task individually).

Thanks!

Tom

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Tom,
You have to copy your custom Gantt Chart from the elementary project to the
master project : open the 2 projects, and:
Tools / Orgnanize / Views / Copy....

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Tom,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

As far as I'm aware, inserted projects adopt the settings of the Master.
Although I haven't tried this with a consolidated project, you might like to
apply to the Master the principles in FAQ Item: 31 - Customizing Task Bars.
Fill the Flag field for the Project in question.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[tommcbrny]

Hi Gerard,

OK, I've copied the Gantt Chart from the elementary project to the Master,
but rather than replace the Master Gantt I renamed the incoming Gantt to
"Support Gantt".

Is there a way to apply the "Support Gantt" only to certain tasks in the
Master project while leaving all other tasks in the Master to use the default
Gantt?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[tommcbrny]

Hi Mike,

The flag field looks to have nice potential for customizing projects, thanks
for the pointer!

A note on my experience implementing this. I first tried to insert the
flag1 column in my Master project, but I could not get the formula to work
correctly. Regardless of the value in the target field, the flag field value
remained "no". I could work around this by manually setting the flag field
to "yes", but this would mean manually changing the flag each time a new task
matching the intent was added.

I then removed the flag field from the Master project and instead executed
the FAQ 31 process in the original project. I reverted to the default Gantt
bar color and pattern, then added the flag field, the formula, and formatted
the Gantt bar for the flag field. This successfully formatted the bars for
tasks matching my target value, and the formatting was maintained for this
project when viewing it in the Master.

I also tested adding a new task to this sub-project in the Master, and the
special formatting is applied to these tasks so long as the value matches the
formula.

Awesome tip, very easy to implement! Thanks again for the direction!

Tom

 

[tommcbrny]

One more comment for my response below. The Gantt bar formatting was not
carried through from the original project to the Master project, but the flag
field and values were. You need to follow the 2nd part of FAQ 31 in the
Master project to get the Gantt bar formatting based on flag field value to
get the formatting right.

Regards,
Tom

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Tom,
No, in the same view, all the tasks will use the same Bar style settings.

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Tom And thank you for actually doing it and succeeding
and letting us all know. Good luck

Mike Glen
Project MVP