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==About the Task Bars Tab for OnePager Pro==

The '''Task Bars''' tab page, shown below, lets you control the '''style and decoration''' of task bars.  Additionally, within this tab are the controls for creating and managing '''conditional formatting rules'''.

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The '''Task Bars''' tab in the '''Chart Properties''' form is the same as the '''Task Bars''' tab in the '''Template Properties''' form.  Additionally, it is possible to make '''edits''' in the '''Task Bars''' tab and have these '''edits mirrored''' in the '''Milestones''' tab of the '''Chart Properties''' form and vice versa.

Please check the '''Related Links''' section below for more information on sub-forms accessible from the '''Task Bars''' tab: [[Task Bars Tab for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro)#Related Links | Related Links]] <!--21.3.1-70-->

==Default Task Bar Styles Control Group==

Collected in this sub-control group are all the controls associated with defining or changing the properties of '''task bars properties'''. These controls include:

===Shape===

The dropdown menu shows a lengthy variety of '''task bar shapes''' available for use as shown here: 

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===Fill===

This dropdown menu shows the five (5) available '''task bar shape fill patterns''' or '''texture''' options as shown below: 

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===Task Bar Height===

These two (2) radio buttons and their associated values allow you to set the '''task bar height''' as an absolute quantity ('''inches or centimeters''') or as a '''percentage of the row height''', which is shown in parentheses for reference as shown here:

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===Border Controls===

In the upper right corner of the form, there are three (3) controls that allow you change (1) the '''color''' of '''task bar shape's border''', (2) the '''width of the border''' and (3) the '''border’s style''' as shown below with the '''Border Color''' dropdown clicked to access the standard '''Color Chooser''' form:

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Further, you have the capability to establish the '''border color''' to be the same as the '''task bar shape fill color''' which effectively makes the '''task bar shape border''' disappear.  Clicking the dropdown button on the '''Border Color''' control accesses the standard OnePager '''Color Chooser''' form as shown in the above illustration.  The '''Border Width''' control allows you to set the value for the '''width''' of the '''task bar shape's border''' in '''inches or centimeters''' depending on the '''Template''' that was originally used to create the chart.

There are five (5) '''Border Styles''' to select from with the '''default style''' set at '''Solid''' as shown below:

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===Task Bar/Milestone Symbol Fill Color===

The '''Task Bar/Milestone Fill Color''' sub-control group provides two (2) options for assigning initial '''colors''' to task bar shapes and is shown below:

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You can specify a '''single color''' for '''all task bar shapes''' via the standard OnePager '''Color Chooser''' form when the '''Use on color:''' radio button is is checked '''ON'''.    More commonly, clicking the '''Color-code based on''' radio button allows you to select a field from your Microsoft Project '''source plan''' to assign a data driven '''color''' to each task bar.   

The '''data driven color''' assignment is sometimes referred to as '''round-robin color'''.   OnePager goes in sequence through the '''color palette''' and assigns a new '''color''' when it finds a new distinct value in the data.   If it finds more distinct values than there are '''colors''' in the '''palette''', it starts over at the beginning of the '''palette''' and uses each '''color''' for a second data value, and so on.  Also note that the '''Color-code based on''' selects a single data field that applies to both task bars and milestone symbols as shown here:

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This is one of the few places where task bars and milestone symbols are constrained to have the '''same default behavior'''.

===Mirror format settings between task bars and milestones===

This single checkbox sub-control is used so that you have the option to simply apply any '''property edits''' you make to task bars to milestone symbols without having to go to the '''Milestones''' tab of the '''Chart Properties''' form.  

It is recommended that you check the '''Mirror format settings between task bars and milestones''' checkbox '''ON''' before making any '''edits''' in the tab.  That way, OnePager applies the '''edits''' to both task bars and milestones symbols from the start.  '''Task bar''' and '''milestone symbol fill colors''' are always '''mirrored''' regardless of the '''Mirror...''' checkbox being checked '''ON''' or '''OFF'''.

When this checkbox is checked '''ON''', OnePager automatically makes any changes to '''Milestones properties''' that are made to '''Task Bar properties''' for all settings where a '''blue dot''' appears to the right of the setting as in the illustration below where the checkbox is checked '''ON''':

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==Task Bar Decorations Control Group==

There are '''seven (7) decorations''' for task bars.  Each can be turned '''ON''' by checking the associated checkbox to the left of the control's label as shown here:

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Each of these '''decorations''' controls can be accessed by clicking the adjacent button as shown in the illustration above.   When any of the '''seven (7) decoration''' buttons are clicked, OnePager Pro accesses a form with specific controls to '''manage the decorations''' for that '''decoration type'''. What follows is a description of each of the '''specific control forms''' associated with each of the '''seven (7) decoration types''':

===Task Bar Label Properties... Button and The Set Label Properties Form===  

Clicking '''Task Bar Label Properties...''' button accesses the '''Set Label Properties''' form shown below wherein the '''source plan''' field name for the task, '''task bar label font properties''', '''label positions''', and '''label text collision avoidance''' controls can be set as shown here:

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====Task Bar Name Field Selection====

The '''Set Label Properties''' form's '''Label field''' dropdown as shown below allows you to access the full list of '''source plan''' field names '''imported''' by OnePager and '''select''' from the dropdown the field name OnePager uses to provide a visible '''task label''' into the chart for each visible task bar/milestone symbol:

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====Task Bar Label Font Properties====

Clicking the '''Label font''' dropdown button accesses the standard OnePager '''Font properties''' form as shown below:

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The standard '''Font properties''' form allows you to set the '''Label text's''' '''font type''', '''color''' using the standard '''Color Chooser''' form, the '''font size''' in pixels, and the '''Bold -''' ''Italics'' '''- [[Underline]]''' settings.

====Task Bar Label Position====

The '''default task bar label position''' is '''Best fit all directions''' as shown in the illustration below along with the other nine (9) available standard positions :

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The '''default''' setting of '''Best fit all directions''' gives OnePager the flexibility to establish '''task bar/milestone symbol label positions''' that do not '''collide''' with other graphics in the chart.

One Pager's '''Text Label Collision Avoidance feature''', discussed in brief next, provides you with a set of rules you can employ to tell OnePager how to position '''task bar/milestone symbol text labels''' in the chart.

===Smart Labeling Settings===

As mentioned, OnePager has a '''Smart Labeling''' or the '''Text Label Collision Avoidance feature''' that attempts to avoid '''cluttered text labels''' appearing in the '''graph''' or at least to minimize the occurrences.  The controls available to you are shown below:

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The '''Enable smart labeling for task/milestone labeling''' checkbox '''enables''' the '''Smart Labeling''' controls when the checkbox is checked '''ON''' and '''disables''' the controls when the checkbox is checked '''OFF'''.  There are four (4) algorithm types available for you to '''enable/disable''', set a specific parameter, and establish an '''algorithm priority''' among the set of four.

====Wrap text up to====

The '''Wrap text up to (value) lines algorithm''' tells OnePager, depending on the '''priority''' established, to take the '''text label string''' and wrap it into a maximum of lines up to the value set in the parameter. The default is set to '''2 lines'''.

====Stair steps up to====

The '''Stair steps up to (value) levels algorithm''' tells OnePager, again depending on the '''priority''' establishes, to create a '''Comment box''' like structure that connects to the task bar/milestone symbol that holds the '''text label string'''.  The '''number of levels value''' is typically set to '''1''' meaning that the '''Stair step''' is positioned in the '''row''' immediately above the '''row''' containing the subject task bar/milestone symbol.  Higher '''number of level values''' increases the number of '''rows''' skipped in positioning the '''Stair step'''.

====Truncate text to====

The '''Truncate text to (value) characters algorithm''' tells OnePager to chop off an excessively long '''text label string''' up to and including the '''value number of characters''' and replace the '''truncated text label charters''' with the '''...''' character so the modified '''text label string''' fits in the selected position.  The '''value number of charters''' setting is set to '''20''' characters including the '''...''' character.

====Shrink font by up to====

The '''Shrink font by up to (value) percent algorithm''' tell OnePager to reduce the '''text label string's''' '''font size''' up to the '''percentage''' specified in the value until the reduced '''font size text label string''' fits in the selected position.

====Additional Information Links====

For more information on the '''Smart Labeling/Text Label Collision Avoidance''' feature, please see the article at:  [[Resolving Task Bar Name Label Collisions for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Resolving Task Bar Name Label Collisions (Portal)]] <!--9.7.1-70-->

For more information on '''text labeling''', please see the article at: [[Task Shape Name Labels for OnePager Pro for Version 7.0 | Task Shape Name Labels for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.15.1-70-->

===%Complete Properties===

Clicking this button accesses the '''Set percent-complete properties''' form shown below which controls the display characteristics of the '''%Complete''' representation.

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The '''Set percent-complete properties''' form allows you to set the source of the '''percent complete field''' from the  '''source plan''', the '''color''' of the '''percent complete bar''' in the task bar, and several other '''properties'''.

For more information on the settings in the '''Set percent-complete properties''' form, please see the article at:  [[Percent complete for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Percent complete for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.3.1-70-->

For information on the use of the '''Honor non-working times''' checkbox, please see this section in this article at:  [[Managing Working Hours and Non-Working Hours for OnePager Pro for Version 7.0#The Honor Non-Working Time Feature | Managing Working Hours and Non-Working Hours for OnePager Pro-The Honor Non-Working Time Feature]] <!--22.5.3-70-->

===Critical Path Properties===

Clicking the '''Critical Path Properties''' button accesses the '''Set critical-path properties''' form shown below which allows you to control the '''color''' and '''height''', with respect to the '''height''' of the task bar, of the '''critical path''' representation:

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Only OnePager Pro supports the representation of '''critical path''' in the chart; OnePager Express does not.

For more information on the use of the '''Set critical-path properties''' form, please see the article at: [[Critical path for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Critical path for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.7.1-70-->

===Baseline Properties===

Clicking the '''Baseline Properties''' button accesses the '''Set baseline properties''' form shown below which controls the '''shape, fill, and color''' of baseline bars, '''the connecting line''' properties, and how the '''baseline dates''' are displayed.

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For more information on the function and use of the controls in the '''Set baseline properties''' form, please see the article at:  [[Baselines for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Baselines for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.5.1-70-->

===Date Label Properties...===

Clicking the '''Date Label Properties...''' button accesses the '''Set date label properties''' form shown below which controls the '''properties of the date label'''.  

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You can control the '''date label’s font properties''', the '''position''' and display of the '''start and finish date''', the '''format of the date label''', and how to '''separate''' the '''date''' from the '''task bar’s label text'''.

For more information on the use of the controls in the '''Set date label properties''' form, please see the article at:  [[Labeling Task/Milestone Dates for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Labeling Task/Milestone Dates for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.1.1-70-->

===Deadline Properties...===

Clicking '''Deadline Properties''' button accesses the '''Set deadline properties''' form shown below which controls for the '''shape, fill, and position''' of the '''deadline''' controls.

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It also lets you set a special '''color''' to denote '''deadlines''' that have '''not''' been met.   Additionally, as with the '''Baseline Properties''' form described above, the  '''Set deadline properties''' form controls '''connecting lines''' for '''deadlines''' and the '''properties of deadline date display'''.

For more information on the use of the controls in the '''Set deadline properties''' form, please see the article at:  [[Deadlines for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Deadlines for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.9.1-70-->

===Endpoint Properties...===

Clicking '''Endpoint Properties''' button accesses the '''Set endpoint properties''' form shown below which controls all properties for '''up to four (4) endpoints'''. 

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Each '''endpoint''' can display the '''date imported from any date field''' from Microsoft Project.   These '''properties''' are controlled essentially the same way as described above for '''Deadline Properties''' form, above.

For more information on the use of the controls in the '''Set endpoint properties''' form, please see the article at:  [[Endpoints for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Endpoints for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.11.1-70-->

==Conditional Formatting Control Group==

The '''Conditional Formatting''' control group on the '''Task Bar''' tab has one button control,  the '''Manage Rules…''' button, as shown below:

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Clicking this button accesses the '''Conditional Formatting Rules''' form shown below which allows you to '''define, change, delete, and copy''' rules governing the '''formatting''' of task bars based on '''data imported''' from your Microsoft Project '''source plan'''.   

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For more information on how to use the '''Conditional Formatting''' feature and the '''Conditional Formatting Rules''' form, please see the article at: [[Conditional Formatting for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Conditional Formatting (Portal)]] <!--11.0.1-70-->

==Related Links==

[[Resolving Task Bar Name Label Collisions for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Resolving Task Bar Name Label Collisions (Portal)]] <!--9.7.1-70-->

[[Labeling Task/Milestone Dates  for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Labeling Task/Milestone Dates  for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.1.1-70-->

[[Percent complete for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Percent complete for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.3.1-70-->

[[Baselines for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Baselines for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.5.1-70-->

[[Critical path for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Critical path for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.7.1-70-->

[[Deadlines for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Deadlines for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.9.1-70-->

[[Endpoints for Version 7.0 (OnePager Pro) | Endpoints for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.11.1-70-->

[[Order of Tasks/Milestones Decorations for Version 7.0 | Order of Tasks/Milestones Decorations]] <!--10.13.1-70-->

[[Task Shape Name Labels for OnePager Pro for Version 7.0 | Task Shape Name Labels for OnePager Pro]] <!--10.15.1.-70-->

[[Conditional Formatting for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Conditional Formatting (Portal)]] <!--11.0.1-70-->

[[Managing Working Hours and Non-Working Hours for OnePager Pro for Version 7.0 | Managing Working Hours and Non-Working Hours for OnePager Pro-The Honor Non]] <!--22.5.3-70-->

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