GanttBarFormat attribute manipulations?

[G Lykos]

Greetings!

Experimented today with using the captioned method to change milestone
representations to framed and solid based on completion status. Although the
Help documentation suggests that the various method arguments are all
optional (inferring that they can be manipulated independently), what I
seemed to encounter was that the task's GanttStyle and three Start
attributes needed to be asserted together for milestone StartType changes to
work. Is this a software error? Anyone have experience in this area?

As a related matter - if I have to assert the three Start attributes to
effect graphical behavior changes, I'd like to be able to read those values
I'm not going to change so I can write them back as found rather that
asserting a plug value. However, I was unable to discover how to read, for
example, a task's Gantt bar StartShape value. Anyone know how to do so?

Thanks,
George

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I have no experience with the need for all three types I am afraid.
What I know for sure is that these properties are "Write Only", cannot be
read.
HTH

 

[JackD]

I'd avoid this in general by using a flag and a custom formula.
For example, use the Flag1 field
put in a custom formula
iif([Percent Complete]=100,True,False)
Then go to format menu, barstyles and set a barstyle for your milestones
that has "Show for ...Tasks" set to milestone, flag1

Whenever the milestone is complete then this bar will show.