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Color gantt chart bars per sub project

Answered Color gantt chart bars per sub project

  • Thursday, 24 May 2012 2:15 PM
     
     
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    Hi,

    Is it possible to consolidate several projects into one project, so that the gantt bars have individual colors per project? i.e. Project 0 is made up of sub project1, sub project2 and sub project3.  The bar for sub project1 would be green, sub project2 red, sub project3 yellow.  I know you can click on the bars and colour them manually, but this is a little bit unwieldly for the amount of projects and tasks I'm managing.

    Many Thanks,

    RB

     

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  • Thursday, 24 May 2012 2:27 PM
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    Hi,

    Do read http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm Faq 31: Customizing Task Bars; use the Project field instead of Resource Names as in the FAQ example. In Project 2010, you will find Bar Styles in the Format ribbon, Format button.

    Greetings,

     
  • Thursday, 24 May 2012 6:47 PM
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    Hi RB,

    You can create a Custom Text Field to capture Sub-project Name and then use it with Flag fields to get different colored Gantt Bars. Flag field will have formula as : iif ( [Text1] = 'Project Name1', 1,0). If you have 3 sub-projects create 3 Flag Fields to get different colored bars. Flag 2 to test for Project Name 2 and so on.

    Refer : http://epmxperts.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/colored-task-bars-based-on-tasks-nature-and-show-progress-of-delayed-tasks-in-gantt-chart/

    Sapna S