split tasks and color

[darren]

is it possible to change the color of different sections of a split task?

i have split a single tasks several times, and would like to highlight each
part, including the interuption periods.

the larger question, of course, is how to create several time ranges for
the same task. i have a single start and finish time, but lots of starts and
stops in between, and i need to identify each start/stop episode with a
different color. of course all on one line!

thanks for any help

Microsoft Project 2000

 

[John]

is it possible to change the color of different sections of a split task?

i have split a single tasks several times, and would like to highlight each
part, including the interuption periods.

the larger question, of course, is how to create several time ranges for
the same task. i have a single start and finish time, but lots of starts and
stops in between, and i need to identify each start/stop episode with a
different color. of course all on one line!

thanks for any help

Microsoft Project 2000

darren,
The answer is "yes" but it will take some VBA to set it up. Split start
and stop dates are not available directly as fields in Project so a
simple VBA macro is required to query the SplitParts collection to get
the start and stop dates of each part. These can then be put into spare
fields (i.e. Start1, Finish1, Start2, Finish2, etc.). Once the data is
in the spare fields, Format/Bar Styles can be used to individually color
each split bar part - all on one line!

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[darren]

i was afraid the solution would rear as a macro.

is it possible to create a split by manually entering the start and finish
dates? i guess i didnt follow your idea of manually creating custom fields
(columns) from VBA collected data, when of course i know all the start and
stop times? in fact, i even entered all the start1/finish1 data, and nothing
happened, or at least, i was not able to individually color the differnet
segments.

could you help clarify?

super thx, darren

 

[John]

i was afraid the solution would rear as a macro.

is it possible to create a split by manually entering the start and finish
dates? i guess i didnt follow your idea of manually creating custom fields
(columns) from VBA collected data, when of course i know all the start and
stop times? in fact, i even entered all the start1/finish1 data, and nothing
happened, or at least, i was not able to individually color the differnet
segments.

could you help clarify?

super thx, darren

Darren,
Macro fear? Darren, Darren, VBA is a tool not something to be feared - I
know, that's probably easy for me to say, right?

By the way, your shift key seems to be stuck on lower case - at least in
your last reply.

Can you create a split by manually entering start and finish
information? Well, no and yes. Split part dates cannot be entered
directly (except of course through VBA) because there are no specific
fields for split part stop and start dates. You can however go to a
timescaled view (i.e. Resource Usage or Task Usage) and manually enter
task or assignment hours so splits occur. If it is done with the
timescale set for days, then in effect you are manually entering start
and stop dates for a split task.

I didn't say to manually put the split data into custom fields but maybe
I should have explained further. As I noted VBA can be used to "capture"
the start and stop times for a split task. That same VBA code can then
put that data into spare fields.

As I type this somewhere in the back of my mind I think I answered a
very similar question in the past. A quick Google search found a post on
12/8/2004 by Micayla with a title: "Formatting a Split Task". Take a
look at that post and its thread, I think it will be helpful.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP