Project Filter 'Highlight' View

[Greggy]

Hi there

In the calendar view, I select the following:

Project / Filtered For: / More Filters

I chose the filter I've created and click the 'Highlight' button (to
the left of apply). Then certain tasks are 'Highlighted'.

Is there any way to make the 'Highlight' run with a filter? So when I
chose a project filter, the highlight automatically kicks in?

Hopefully I have explained this properly.

Thanks!
Greg

 

[JulieS]

Hi Greg,

In the View definition dialog box (View > More Views, select the view and
choose Edit...), click the Highlight check box. Any filter applied will now
act as a highlight filter in that view.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Greggy]

yeah... I actually tried that. And it looks great when you first open
the view. Then when you apply another filter to that view, everything
gets weird with the highlight colors.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Greg,

Someone else may have a more elegant answer, but you could record a macro
applying the highlight filter and then add that macro to a toolbar button as
an alternative.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Greggy]

If I run a filter, then try to run the highlight, it applies the
highlight, but undoes the filter and shows all tasks. I wish there was
a way around this.

What would be cool is if you could include the 'Highlight' in the
creation of the filter. So in the filter create it would be neat to
add a 'And' 'Show' 'Highlighted', equals '% completed'. Or something
like that.

Thanks for your replies.

Greg

 

[JulieS]

Hi Greg,

You are welcome for what help I have offered thus far. I'll add that now I
am officially confused (it doesn't take much). When in your first post, you
said you went to Project > Filtered for > More Filters, selected the filter
and clicked Highlight, I assumed you were applying a highlight filter.

In your message below, it appears as though you are trying to run two
filters, one "regular" and then one with a highlight. When you apply
another filter (highlight or other), it removes the first filter. I'm not
exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish, so I'll make a stab at it.

I assume you want to filter the list of tasks (only showing specific tasks)
and then highlight a group of specific tasks within the filtered list?

The only way I can come up with off the top of my head is to use a filter to
whittle down the list and then used the Marked field to further format the
task font of specifically marked tasks. Add the [Marked] field to a table,
set the marked field to "yes" and then choose Format > Text Styles, and
select marked. Apply what ever formatting you like for the Marked tasks.

Sadly, I do not know of a way other than manually to set the Marked fields
to "yes". I am sure there is a VBA answer, I just don't know it.

Perhaps someone else can see the forest for the trees, but right now, I am
nose to bark.

Hope this helps.

Julie