Difference between revisions of "Comment Boxes Tab for Version 7.0"

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About the Comment Boxes Tab

1) This tab controls the appearance of Comment boxes and looks like this:

2) Comment boxes are attached to selectedtask/milestone shapes in the chart and are presented using the parameters initially set in the Comment Boxes tab.

3) Creation and editing of Comment boxes is described in the article at this link: Creating and Managing Comment Boxes 13.0.1-70

Application of Comment Box Tab Edits in the Chart

4) The controls in the Chart Properties form are applied AFTER the edits to the form are made.

5) If you make any edit in the Comment Box tab and click the OK button on the form, the NEXT Comment box created in the chart uses those edited parameters when creating the Comment box.

6) If any changes are made to parameters in the Comment Box tab AFTER Comment boxes were created in the chart, these existing Comment boxes do not display the most recent edits made in the Comment Box tab.

Font

7) The Font dropdown provides access to the standard Font properties form that allows you to change the font properties of the Comment box text as shown below:

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

Box Size Sub-Control Group

9) The Box Size sub-control group has two windows that allow you to set the width and height in inches or centimeters for the dimensions of all Comment boxes depending on the Template being used.

Box Offset from Anchor Sub-Control Group

10) If the Set Globally checkbox is checked On, the X and Y values appearing in the windows adjacent to the right are enabled and can be edited to establish different horizontal and vertical displacements of the Comment boxes from their anchor locations on the tasks/milestone shapes.

11) The values for X and Y are in inches or centimeters depending on the Template being used.

12) The X value measures distance from the anchor in the horizontal direction form the anchor and the Y value measures distance from the anchor in the vertical direction. Values can be either positive or negative.

13) If the Set Globally checkbox is checked Off, all Comment boxes created in the chart are all offset from their anchor point by the default values shown in the windows adjacent to the right as shown in the example below where the offsets are the default values of X=1.0 and Y=1.0:

Transparent Checkbox

14) The Transparent checkbox when used in conjunction with the Show connecting lines when transparent checkbox are used to remove the Comment box's border while leaving the text untouched.

15) When the Transparent checkbox is checked On, the Show connecting lines when transparent checkbox is enabled with its default value of checked Off, and the Background color is disabled as shown below:

16) The Transparent checkbox, when checked On, makes all Comment box and its connecting line subsequently created in the chart transparent as shown in the example below:

Show connecting lines when transparent Checkbox

17) When the Transparent checkbox is checked On and the Show connecting lines when transparent checkbox is also checked On the border of the Comment box is not shown but the connecting line to the Comment box's anchor point is displayed as shown here:

Background Color

18) The Background Color dropdown provides access to the standard Color Chooser.

19) The selected color fills the Comment box, however, the connecting line and the border color of the comment box remain the same color as the selected task/milestone shape as shown in the example below:

20) The default Background color starts out always the same as the fill color of the task/milestone shape to which the Comment box is anchored.

21) The Background color is disabled when the Transparent checkbox is checked On as discussed above.

Anchor Position Slider Bar

22) The Anchor Position slider bar sets the location along the task bar at which Comment boxes are anchored.

23) The value of the position is a percentage of the duration of the task bar as measured from its Start date.

24) Below is an example of a Comment box positioned at the 25% position on the selected task bar:

Anchor Marker Control Group

25) The Anchor marker control group consists of two controls as shown below:

26) The None checkbox, when checked On, disables the showing of any Anchor marker associated with all Comment boxes in the graph.

27) With the None checkbox checked Off, the Anchor marker dropdown list is enabled and you can use this dropdown list to select an appropriate Anchor marker for all anchor points for Comment boxes in the chart.

28) The list of Anchor markers are the same as the list of Milestone shapes available for use and found at the Milestones tab of the Template and Chart Properties forms.

Anchor Color Control

29) The Anchor Color dropdown provides access to the standard Color Chooser that you can use to establish the color of the Anchor marker as shown here:

10) Attach to All Snapshots. This checkbox when checked assures that the comment box appears in all snapshots. The default action is to attach a new comment boxes to all snapshots.

Related Link

Creating and Managing Comment Boxes 13.0.1-70

(21.11.1-70)