Milestone Levels

[Crawford]

I am creating a project plan with multiple milestone levels. (1/2/3/4/5).

I was wondering how best to reflect the milestone levels in the Gantt view
differently, instead of them all appearing black diamonds and being
indistinguishable.

Level 1 - Black diamonds
Level 2 - Blue diamonds
Level 3 - Red diamonds...etc

Really apprecaite your help and input

Thanks

Crawford

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

You can tie milestone formats to Flag fields. The easiest way would be to
use one flag field for each outline level. Add the following formula to
Flag1-Flag5.

IIF([Outline Level]=1,Yes,No) - then repeat for each level desired.

Then, copy the Gantt View to make a new custom view. Doubleclick on the
Gantt Chart area to get the bar styles. Scroll down until you see the milestone
settings. Add a couple of rows, format as you would like, and add the following
criteria for each row: Milestone, Flag1 - changing the specific flag field
for each of the levels.

That should do it....note that best practice recommends changing not only
the color but also the shape - to enable black & white printing and equal
access for our color-blind colleagues.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm