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Formatting Bars

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Thu, 2006-02-16 09:38
Tony McClennon
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Working in MSP2003, I am trying to format a bar to "fade" either at the start or end of the task in order to show ongoing work without an end date being apparent.

Has anyone managed to do this - if so, I would be grateful for any info as how to do this.

Cheers.
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Fri, 2006-03-24 04:32
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Tony McClennon
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Andrew,

Thanks for that. However, I think that the schedule I am looking at will have so many "work-rounds", it will double the number of activities!!!

Regards.
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Thu, 2006-03-23 09:56
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Andrew Owenson
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Tony

If you created two bars with a finish start relationship - the first bar being the "solid" colour and the second being a lighter shade (in the pattern section), you could then create a summary bar of the two and roll up the bars. On the summary bar you hide the task bar and show the rolled up gantt bars, and on the tasks you roll up the bar to the summary bar. If the second bar was then split into sections, ie breaks between work days, and you put an arrow as the end shape of the second bar, and then minimise the summary bar the results are not too bad. You could aklso add some text to the bar to indicate an ongoing timeframe.

Cheers

Andrew
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Mon, 2006-03-06 03:26
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Chris Oggham
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Hi Tony,

I tried to do something like this a while back and couldn’t make it work. If you do get hold of something could you post it in this thread, I’d really be interested.

Chris Oggham
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Mon, 2006-03-06 03:08
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Paul Harris
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I am fairly certain this is not a standard feature.

You could paste in a graphic created somewhere else but this is not in my opinion ideal solution..

Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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