Graphical Representations of Gantt Charts and Linear Diagrams

My appologies for posting off topic.

I pasted the conversation regarding colors and paterns in this post in order to bring the subject "up to speed".

Bogdan's Initial post:

I saw in one of the Spider Team publications ("Tools and Techniques of Project and Portfolio Management with Resource Constraints") project phases using two colors, I was wondering if you know if this is possible in the program and how. I belive the "Use subphases colors to draw phases" option under "Gantt Options" may be the way to do it, but I haven't figured how to use it. Any suggestions?

Rafael:

I am not much into tweaking colors other than manually. If in addition to colors there were patterns I would get more interested as photocopies and print out from my B&W laser printer would make sense.

When I was a SureTrak user my favorite tweaking, and perhaps the only was to setup hammock bars to be light grey with diagonal lines. Something simple and always the same, more on the practical side.

I would like the following option box to provide for tweaking color of activities by Type DPH and to provide pattern options in addition to color and would avoid use the other complicated methods, only manual color for a few activities I want to highlight.

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Bogdan:

Perhaps partterns could also be added to signals. This way the users could have even more flexibility.

Rafael:

You are right, even when for signals alone it does not makes much sense it does when used as to dynamically change bar colors, the tweaking I rarely use.

I miss being able to define colors/patterns by activity type, the most relevant for me would still be the Hammock.

Maybe with formulas and signals hammock color can be tweaked, but it is too complicated to even search for it.

Vladimir:

With formulas that set different numbers in user field that is made signal you may create different colors for different activity types but no patterns. Colors on the phase may reflect user defined colors of its sub-phases. But it makes sense to discuss this in the separate topic, it is not connected with MC analysis.