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Activity Codes

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Sat, 2008-09-06 05:13
moutaz aldeib
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Dear Planners,

I assigned the activity codes to the activities, for example:

1-Codes: Phase... Values: Eng. Proc. and Const.
2-Codes: Construction...Values: Roads, water treatment and water supply.

the phases will be assigned to all activities but the values of construction will be assigned to construction phase only. This will show a blank band to the other two phases, imagine that you have got a lot of codes assigned to specific activities, it gives you a lot of blank bands.

How to hide the blank bands?

Regards,

Moutaz

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Tue, 2008-11-04 06:26
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PINAN T.
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yes kannan is right. best solution is wbs as told previously.
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Tue, 2008-11-04 04:27
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Kannan CP
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Hi Farid,

If you unmark the "Display unassigned and Un categorized activities" then the activities satisfying all the activity codes only will be displayed.

Sections with blank activity codes will not appear. So its not a solution, I think so.

Anybody having more idea?
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Sat, 2008-11-01 07:37
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Farid Arab
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There is an easy solution
choose Format>Organize>then UNmark the "display unassigned and uncategorized activities"
and then press "organize now"
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Fri, 2008-09-12 01:36
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Anoon Iimos
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Moutaz,

for me, "activity codes" is better, you can assign whatever codes you want, blank bands doesn’t matter, and most of all it will give you more flexibility when it comes to filters. (You can ask Atef or Gebril, if you still don’t believe in me, ha ha ha)

best regards
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Thu, 2008-09-11 08:10
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moutaz aldeib
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Yes, Nithin I already used WBS.

Thanks a lot.

Moutaz
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Sat, 2008-09-06 05:53
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Arnold Puy
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Hi Moutaz,

You cannot hide the blank bands instead you need to assign the phases. You can use also WBS.

HTH.

Arnold
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