Creating, Editing, and Managing Time Axis Daily Curtains for OnePager Pro for Version 6.1

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Overview

1) OnePager Pro and Express 6.1 have a new feature called Daily Curtains that allows you to add colored Curtains throughout the project view for specific days of the week.

a) This new feature is useful when it is important to visualize a particular day or days in a week that have special meaning.
b) The most common usage is to display Daily Curtains for weekend days.

2) Typically, Daily Curtains are used in project views where the timeline is short, say a few weeks or less as shown below:

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a) For example, if you go to the Project-View Properties (PVP) form Time Axis tab’s Format sub-tab you can assign different colors to Sunday and Saturday in the Days of the Week and Non-Working Times control group as is done below:
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b) When these settings are Applied to the project view, it looks like this:
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c) Daily Curtains cannot be manually selected or edited in the project view with a left or right-click. However, the properties of all Daily Curtains as a group can be edited by accessing the PVP form Time Axis tab’s Format sub-tab’s Days of the Week and Non-Working Times control group.
d) Daily Curtains also do not appear as entries in The Grid.
e) Daily Curtains can be eliminated from the project view by editing their color selection in the standard OnePager Color Chooser to No Fill.
f) Daily Curtains are snapshot-independent.

3) The Template form Time Axis tab’s Format sub-tab has identical controls where you can manage Daily Curtains at a global level.

4) The intent of this article is to provide the information essential for you to create, edit, and manage Daily Curtains in the project view.

Using The Daily Curtain Feature

1) Daily Curtains are useful in project views that are focused on short timespans or resolutions down to the week, day, or hour levels of timespan granularity. Daily Curtains provide the opportunity to highlight these timespans with color.

2) Control over the Daily Curtain feature is provided in the Format sub-tab of the PVP Time Axis tab that looks like this:

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3) There are two control groups on this sub-tab for controlling the visualization of Days of the Week and Non-Working Times and a control group for creating, editing, and tracking Curtains and Timespans.

The Days of the Week and Working Times Control Group

4) The Days of the Week and Non-Working Times control group has four sets of control sub-groups for enhancing the focus on Days of the Week, Working Hours, and Non-Working Hours.

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5) This feature and these controls are particularly useful when project views are focused on daily and/or weekly activities.

Show or Hide Selected Days of the Week

6) The default setting specified in the checkboxes shown above (No-1) in this control group is the checked or ON value.

a) When these checkboxes are checked ON, those Days of the Week are shown in the project view even if there is no color selection.
b) If a checkbox is unchecked or OFF, the unchecked Day of the Week is hidden.
c) Not showing a day of the week using these controls also hides the day in the Time Axis Levels.
d) To prevent complete voiding of the project view, at least one of the Days of the Week checkboxes must be checked ON.
e) If all Days of the Week checkboxes are unchecked, OnePager Pro 6.1 provides the warning message shown here:
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Example - Hiding Weekend Days

7) Suppose you have a project view as shown below that shows just the days of the month of December 2019:

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a) Further, suppose you want to hide the weekend days.
b) You can do this by making the following edits to the PVP form Time Axis tab’s Format sub-tab as shown below:
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c) In the above illustration, the edits entail unchecking the Sunday and Saturday checkboxes. No other edit action is required.
d) When these two edits are applied to the project view by clicking the PVP form’s Apply or OK button, the project view looks like this:
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Example - Adding Colors to Selected Daily Curtains

8) The example above can be displayed in a different way by continuing to show all Days of the Week, but coloring the weekend days with Daily Curtains.

a) If you change the controls slightly in the sub-tab by rechecking the checkboxes for Sunday and Saturday and select colors (No-2) for these two weekend days, the sub-tab looks like this:
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b)Selecting a color involves clicking the Standard Color Chooser dropdown next to the day of the week checkbox and selecting the color from the Color Chooser form.
c) Applying these edits alters the project view to look like this:
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d) Adding color for Daily Curtains requires that the Show Days checkboxes be checked ON. If the checkboxes are not checked the colors and the Daily Curtains are not shown.

Example - Editing Transparency for All Daily Curtains

9) Transparency for all Daily Curtains (No-3) can be edited by resetting the Daily Curtain Transparency percent setting.

a) To make Daily Curtains more transparent increase the percentage setting in the Daily Curtain Transparency window as shown below:
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b) Applying this edit by clicking the Apply button on the PVP form alters the project view’s Daily Curtains to look like this:
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Example - Designate a Color for Daily Curtain Borders

10) Borders (No-4) can also be erected around all Daily Curtains by using the Daily Curtain Border: Standard Color Chooser dropdown to select a color.

a) In this example, the color black is chosen for all Daily Curtain Border: associated with the weekends:
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b) Applying the selected color to the Daily Curtain Borders by clicking the Apply button on the PVP form alters the project view as shown below:
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11) Daily Curtains are not listed in the Curtains and Timespans Grid. They cannot be selected with the mouse and cannot be mavericked or edited. Editing Daily Curtains is only possible using the techniques discussed above.

Other Examples

Daily Curtains for Weekdays

1) Suppose you select to have alternating days of the week showing a blue color for the project view below:

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a) To put in alternating Daily Curtains for the project view above, edit the Curtain Colors: dropdowns so they look like this:
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b) After the controls above are configured, click the Apply or OK button in the PVP form and the project view looks like this:
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Caution When Checking/Unchecking Show Days: Checkboxes

2) Caution: Care must be taken when checking and unchecking the checkboxes for the Show Days: sub-group of controls.

a) These checkboxes are checked as the default setting so their respective Days of the Week are shown.
b) If one or more of these checkboxes are unchecked, the day of the week associated with the unchecked checkbox is not shown and there is a gap in the timeline.
c) For example, if you retain the light blue color but uncheck those checkboxes for which there is the No-fill color selected, the PVP form Time Axis tab’s Format sub-tab looks like this:
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d) When these edits are applied to the project view above, it looks like this:
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Using Alternating Colors for Daily Curtains

3) An easy way differentiate between days is to edit some of the colors for the remaining Daily Curtains in the PVP form Time Axis tab’s Format sub-tab in the Curtain Colors: control sub-group as shown below:

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a) Above, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are the only days shown. The remaining days have their Show Days: checkboxes unchecked or OFF.
b) When the above edits are applied, the project view looks like this:
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Setting Transparency and Border Colors for Alternating Color Daily Curtains

4) To make changes to Daily Curtain transparency and color use the sub-group controls in the Format Days of the Week and Working Times control group for globally setting the transparency and border colors for Daily Curtains as shown below in this example:

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a) If you take the project view above and edit the Daily Curtain Transparency to 75 percent, the project view looks like this:
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b) In the project view above, the Daily Curtains look lighter. However, if there is a background image, it stands out more while not diminishing the value of the Daily Curtains.

5) To create borders for these Daily Curtains, you need to select a color for the borders using the dropdown standard Color Chooser.

a) If you want a red border you can use the Standard Color Chooser to make the selection shown below:
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b) After Applying the edit to the project view, it looks like this:
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6) Daily Curtains are not listed in The Grid, they cannot be selected with the mouse, and they cannot be mavericked or edited. Daily Curtains can only be edited with the controls discussed above.

Related Links

Changing the Time Axis Borders for OnePager Pro

Showing and Hiding Time Axis Levels and Cells for OnePager Pro

The Non-Linear Time Axis Feature for OnePager Pro

The Floating Time Axis Feature for OnePager Pro

Editing Time Axes with the Project-View Properties Form for OnePager Pro

Manual Editing the Time Axis for OnePager Pro

The Custom Date Format Feature for OnePager Pro

Managing Working Hours and Non-Working Hours for OnePager Pro

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