Additional Text Columns for OnePager Pro 6.0

About Additional Text Columns

OnePager Pro and Express version 6.0 is enhanced to increase the number of text columns that can be displayed in the graph.

1) As a comparison, below is a typical OnePager Pro project view with rows and swimlanes as depicted in previous versions:

2) In OnePager Pro and Express version 6.0, you can display up to 5 additional text columns which can create a project view that looks like this:

3) In the enhanced project view above, there are three (3) additional text columns designated Start, Finish, and Deadline. For the purpose of the intended audience, these Start and Finish dates and their proximity to the Deadline date are important and require a place to display in text.

4) Version 6.0 provides the controls necessary to define additional text columns as well as the controls to manage their properties such as font characteristics, color, and other text properties such as Bold, Underline, and Italic fonts.

5) The position of the text columns may be reordered left to right by using the Project-View Properties (PVP) form’s controls in the Rows and Swimlanes tab to redefine which text column should be first, second, etc., from left to right.

6) The PVP form is expanded to provide all the controls necessary to define and manage the additional text columns.

a) The new PVP form is shown below:

b) The controls are modified in the Labels group with the addition of the Text Column Properties… button which provides access to the Custom Text Columns form shown here:

c) There are five tabs in the above form, each providing capability to define an additional text column from either the left project view border (if Swimlanes are not displayed) or to the right of the Swimlane column.

d) Each tab gives you the capability to turn the additional text column on or off (Show this checkbox), use the Field window dropdown to select the source plan data field to populate the designated additional text column, and use the Formatting group of controls to format the text which will appear in the text column represented by the tab you are working in.

7) Additional text column content is snapshot dependent; so whenever the data from the source plan changes when navigating across snapshots, the information in the displayed additional text columns is updated.

8) The additional text column feature is also supported by OnePager’s Multi-Page output capability where all displayed text columns can be repeated on the multiple pages of project view output.

9) Any project view files (.TAMs) created prior to OnePager Pro or Express version 6.0 will automatically display rows and swimlanes as before. To maintain capability, any legacy project views imported and opened by OnePager Pro or Express version 6.0 will update the PVP form to reflect the current row and swimlane display status.

10) User defined Templates from previous versions of OnePager Pro or Express are converted to the OnePager Pro/Express version 6.0 format when these user defined Templates are opened for first use.

a) Templates created by users with previous versions of OnePager Pro/Express are converted to the OnePager version 6.0 format and when re-saved by the user are saved in the OnePager version 6.0 format as the primary option.

b) User defined Template or a Template distributed with the installation of OnePager Pro/Express version 6.0 can be saved in a format which can be shared with other OnePager Pro/Express users who donot use OnePager version 6.0.

c) When version 6.0 Templates are saved in the format of a previous OnePager Pro/Express version, any additional text columns beyond the first are removed along with all the properties associated with these text columns.

11) As with previous versions of OnePager Pro/Express, version 6.0 project views can be saved in legacy formats back to OnePager Pro/Express 5.0.

12) Saving OnePager Pro/Express version 6.0 project views in a legacy format is done using the Save As command on the File tab of the OnePager Pro/Express tool bar and clicking on the Save as type dropdown on the Windows Save As form to select the legacy format desired:

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