Highlighting and filtering tasks

[Lars]

Environment: Project Server 2007/ Project Pro2007

Our goal:
In a given view in Project Pro2007, we need tasks which meet a certain
criteria to have a specific text style at the same time as it should be
possible to apply any other filter which exclude tasks not meeting the
respective criteria. The desired result is that the action should result in a
shortlist of tasks based on the filter applied by the user; among the
filtered tasks it should be possible to see tasks with the specific text
style as well as other tasks with regular text style.

What we have done:
At the present we have built a custom filter, which highlight the desired
tasks. Then we have selected the required text style to apply to highlighted
tasks. In order for the user to see the desired text style for the given
tasks when they open up the view, we have selected the filter as the default
filter for the view.

The challenge
When applying another filter in addition to the one described above, we are
experiencing problems in getting this filter to hide tasks not meeting the
selected criteria. Even if we select the filter from the Project, Filtered
for:, More Filters... and select the "Apply" option in stead of Highlight,
the filter does not hide tasks not meeting the selected criteria but just not
highlight them.

If the highlighting solution is to work, we need to be able to apply two
filters which are to work simultaneously, where one filter highlights tasks
meeting criteria A and the other filter exclude tasks which does not meet
criteria B.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Lars --

You cannot apply two filters simultaneously, so your goal cannot be
achieved. The only way around this would be to rewrite the current custom
Filter to include both sets of filtering criteria. Hope this helps.