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==Creating New, Retrieving Existing, Saving, and Saving As==
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==About the OnePager Chart==
  
This article provides links to articles which cover the specifics on '''Creating new chart''', '''Retrieving existing charts''', and '''Saving charts'''. Please use the links below as they apply to the OnePager products and operations you want to perform.
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The figure below shows the main features of the OnePager chart. Each numbered pointer refers to a paragraph number in the next section. This very busy chart has more content than you normally found one chart.  
  
==Creating NEW Charts==
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This chart was created to illustrate the major features available from OnePager Pro using data from Microsoft Project but the feature's function, controls, and manual edits apply equally to other OnePager editions that import from data sources like Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, and Oracle Primavera P6.  Not all components in the list below this illustration are shown to avoid clutter.
  
There are several ways to create '''NEW''' charts with OnePager Pro and OnePager Express.  OnePager is designed to support these two methods for creating '''NEW''' for each product: (1) '''Push''' and (2) '''Pull''' Operations.  
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Pleases refer to the referenced articles below:
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==OnePager Chart Components==
  
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1) '''Swimlane levels''' are defined as a set of contiguous '''rows''', grouped together, '''sorted''' in a defined sequence in accordance with user selected '''source plan data''', and '''labeled''' in the one or all of the '''swimlane level''' columns selected to '''show''' in the chart.
===Push Operations===
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:a) '''Swimlane levels''' can be manipulated in various ways (i.e., '''ordered''' and '''reordered''', '''moved''' up or down, '''added, deleted, merged, split, hidden''' and '''unhidden''', and '''created''' from existing '''rows''').
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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| OnePager Pro Add-in
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| [[Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Pro Add-in for Version 7.0 | Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Pro Add-in]] <!--7.1.1-70-->
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| OnePager Pro Desktop
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| [[Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Pro Desktop for Version 7.0 | Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Pro Desktop]] <!--7.1.2-70-->
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| OnePager Express Add-in
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| [[Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Express Add-in for Version 7.0  | Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Express Add-in]] <!--7.2.1-70-->
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|-
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| OnePager Express Desktop
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| [[Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Express Desktop for Version 7.0 | Creating a NEW Chart - OnePager Express Desktop]] <!--7.2.2-70-->
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:b) OnePager version 7.0 supports three (3) '''Swimlane Levels'''.
===Pull Operations===
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:c) The attributes for '''swimlane levels''' are defined and can be '''edited''' in the '''Template Properties''' and '''Chart Properties''' form's '''Row/Swimlanes''' tab.
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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| OnePager Pro Pull Operation
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| [[Creating a NEW Chart via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro for Version 7.0 | Creating a NEW Chart via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro]] <!--7.13.1-70-->
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| OnePager Express Pull Operation
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| [[Creating a NEW Chart via Pull Operation - OnePager Express  for Version 7.0 | Creating a NEW Chart via Pull Operation - OnePager Express]] <!--7.13.2-70-->
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==Retrieving a Chart (OPEN)==
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2) '''Swimlane Level Cell Labels''' are optional '''labels''' for each '''swimlane level cell'''. These '''labels''' can be '''edited'''.
  
'''Retrieving''' an existing chart to review it ('''OPEN'''), to '''edit''', or to '''update''' it with new information from Microsoft Project or Microsoft Excel is covered in the [[Getting Started with Version 7.0 (Portal) | Getting Started (Portal)]] <!--3.0.1-70--> series of articles.  There are also several ways to '''OPEN''' existing charts with OnePager Pro and OnePager Express depending on the application used. 
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3) '''Swimlane Level Stripes''' are alternating '''swimlane level cell''' background '''colors''' giving a '''horizontal stripe''' effect to the chart.  (Not shown above.) See: [[Zebra Striping for Rows and Swimlanes for OnePager for Version 7.2 | Zebra Striping for Rows and Swimlanes for OnePager]] 12.24.1-72
  
Please refer to the referenced articles below:
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4) '''Rows''' are the lowest level of horizontal organization that contain at least one task bar or milestone symbol.
  
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:a) '''Rows''' contain task bars and milestone symbols positioned and graphed in accordance with '''imported''' '''source plan''' data.
===Opening an Existing Chart===
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:b) '''Rows''' are always contained in a '''swimlane level''', even if the '''swimlane level's''' '''label''' column is '''hidden'''.  
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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| OnePager Pro Add-in
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| [[Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Pro Add-in for Version 7.0 | Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Pro Add-in]] <!--7.5.1-70-->
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| OnePager Pro Desktop
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| [[Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Pro Desktop for Version 7.0 | Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Pro Desktop]] <!--7.5.2-70-->
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| OnePager Express Add-in
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| [[Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Express Add-in for Version 6.0 | Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Express Add-in]] <!--7.6.1-70-->
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| OnePager Express Desktop
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| [[Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Express Desktop for Version 6.0 | Opening an EXISTING Chart - OnePager Express Desktop]] <!--7.6.2-70-->
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==Updating an Existing Chart==
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:c)  If there are '''multiple swimlane levels defined''', the '''row''' can be a member of at least one '''swimlane level''' and can also be a member of two or more '''swimlane levels'''.
  
'''Updating''' a chart involves either '''ADDING''' a snapshot or '''REPLACING''' a snapshot and each can be done by either a '''Push''' or '''Pull''' Operation.
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:d) '''Rows''' can be manipulated in ways similar to '''swimlanes''': '''ordered''' and '''reordered''', '''moved''' up and down (within and between '''swimlanes'''), '''added, deleted, hidden''', and '''unhidden'''.
  
Please see the links that immediately follow:
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:e)  '''Rows''' can be moved to different '''swimlane levels''' and become members of different '''swimlane level cells'''.
  
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:f) '''Rows''' can be '''inserted''' into the '''graph''' or '''hidden''' in the '''graph'''.
===ADDING a Snapshot Using the Push Operation===
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5) '''Text Columns''' (previously known as '''row labels''') are column or columns containing '''imported source plan''' data as their text.
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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| OnePager Pro Add-in
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| [[ADDING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Add-in for Version 7.0 | ADDING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Add-in]] <!--7.7.1-70-->
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| OnePager Pro Desktop
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| [[ADDING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Desktop for Version 7.0 | ADDING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Desktop]] <!--7.7.2-70-->
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| OnePager Express Add-in
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| [[ADDING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Express Add-in for Version 7.0 | ADDING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Express Add-in]] <!--7.8.1-70-->
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| OnePager Express Desktop
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| [[ADDING a Snapshot Via Push Update - OnePager Express Desktop for Version 7.0 | ADDING a Snapshot Via Push Update - OnePager Express Desktop]] <!--7.8.2-70-->
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===ADDING a Snapshot Using the Pull Operation===
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:a) '''Text columns''' are placed in the chart to the immediate right of the '''Swimlane Label''' column.
  
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:b) There are up to five (5) '''Text Columns''' available.
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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| OnePager Pro
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| [[ADDING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro for Version 6.0 | ADDING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro]] <!--7.15.1-70-->
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| OnePager Express
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| [[ADDING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Express for Version 7.0 | ADDING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Express]] <!--7.15.2-70-->
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:c) '''Text column cells''' can be '''edited'''.
===REPLACING a Snapshot Using the Push Operation===
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6) '''Row Stripes''' are alternating '''row''' background '''colors''' giving a '''horizontal stripe''' effect to the chart.
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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| OnePager Pro Add-in
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| [[REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Add-in for Version 7.0 | REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Add-in]] <!--7.9.1-70-->
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| OnePager Pro Desktop
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| [[REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Desktop for Version 7.0 | REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Pro Desktop]] <!--7.9.2-70-->
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|-
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| OnePager Express Add-in
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| [[REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Express Add-in for Version 7.0 | REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Express Add-in]] <!--7.10.1-70-->
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|-
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| OnePager Express Desktop
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| [[REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Express Desktop for Version 7.0 | REPLACING a Snapshot via Push Update - OnePager Express Desktop]] <!--7.10.2-70-->
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|}
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7) '''The Corner''' is the '''upper left''' and '''lower left''' areas of the chart where the Row/Swimlane '''column headings''' and '''time axis unit labels''' reside. '''The Corner''' can be made to show empty space that can be used for user defined text.
===REPLACING a Snapshot Using the Pull Operation===
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8) '''Swimlane Level Headings''' share the same area ('''The Corner''') as the '''time axis unit label'''.  
! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to  Replacing Snapshot Article
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to  Custom Update Article
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| OnePager Pro
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| [[REPLACING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro for Version 7.0 | REPLACING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro]] <!--7.14.1-70-->
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| [[Custom Update (Replacing) of a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro for Version 7.0 | Custom Update (Replacing) of a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Pro]] <!--7.16.1-70-->
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|-
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| OnePager Express
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| [[REPLACING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Express for Version 7.0 | REPLACING a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Express]] <!--7.14.2-70-->
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|  [[Custom Update (Replacing) of a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Express for Version 6.0 | Custom Update (Replacing) of a Snapshot via Pull Operation - OnePager Express]] <!--7.16.2-70-->
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|}
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==Using OnePager Pro with Server Resident Source Plans==
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:a) One or the other can be shown, but not both.
  
OnePager Pro has the capability to '''create''', '''retrieve''', '''save''', and '''update''' charts from Microsoft Project '''source plans''' that are '''server resident'''.
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:b) When all '''swimlane level cell''' '''labels''' are '''hidden''', the '''swimlane''' '''heading''' is not displayed.  
  
For more general information on using '''server resident source plans''', please see the article at: [[Using OnePager Pro with Server Resident Project Plans for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Using OnePager Pro with Server Resident Project Plans (Portal)]] <!--8.5.1-70-->
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:c) When a '''source plan''' field is selected for the '''swimlane level cell's''' '''label''' from Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet, the '''swimlane level's''' '''label''' value is shown in the '''heading'''.  
  
Please use the links that follow for specific product information related to using '''server resident source plans''':
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:d) The '''swimlane level heading''' can be '''edited''' after the chart is created.
  
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9) '''Text Column Headings''' share the same area ('''The Corner''') as '''swimlane level headings''' and  '''time axis unit label'''.  
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! style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" | OnePager Product
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! style="font-weight: bold;" | Link to Article
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|-
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| OnePager Pro Add-in
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| [[Using OnePager Pro Add-In with Server Resident Project Plans for Version 7.0 | Using OnePager Pro Add-In with Server Resident Project Plans]] <!--8.5.1.1-70-->
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|-
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| OnePager Pro Desktop
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| [[Using OnePager Pro Desktop with Server Resident Project Plans for Version 7.0 | Using OnePager Pro Desktop with Server Resident Project Plans]] <!--8.5.1.2-70-->
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|-
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|}
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==Updating Using the OnePager Data Tab==
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:a) Either '''time axis unit labels''' or '''swimlane level/text column headings''' can be shown in '''The Corner''', not both.
  
The OnePager '''Data''' ribbon tool bar tab’s '''Selected file(s)''' button, shown below, is useful in verifying that you have the correct '''source plans''' associated with the '''open''' chart is/are correct.
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:b) When all '''text column labels''' are '''hidden''', the '''text column heading''' is not displayed.  
  
<center>[[File:P70-23_1_1-70-(1)-11272020.png]]</center>
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:c) When a '''source plan''' field is selected for the '''text column label''' from the Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet the '''text column label''' value is shown in the '''heading'''.  
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For more information on the '''Data tab's Selected file(s) button''', please see the article at: [[Using the OnePager "Data" Tab's "Selected file(s)" Button for Version 7.0 | Using the OnePager "Data" Tab's "Selected file(s)" Button]] <!--7.17.1-70-->
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:d) The '''text column heading''' can be '''edited''' after the chart is created.
  
==Saving a Chart (Save)==
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10) '''Time Axis''' is a set of '''tic marks''' and '''labels''' on the top or bottom of the chart (or both) showing the time divisions of the '''time axis'''.
  
When a chart is '''created''', '''opened''', or '''updated''', as with other Microsoft Windows applications, the chart can be '''saved''' in four (4) ways:
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:a) You can choose to have the divisions represent days, weeks, months, quarters, etc.
  
===Using the Save Icon===
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:b) You can specify '''calendar year''' or '''fiscal year''' formats and there are provisions for handling '''fiscal year''' starts mid-week.
  
Above the OnePager tool bar and ribbon is a '''Save icon''' shown below:
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:c) You can specify '''background colors''' for the '''time axes'''.
  
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:d) You have the capability to '''re-order up and down''' the three '''time axis levels''', '''hide time axis levels and cells''', and '''stretch or compress time axis level cells''' in any level.
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When the '''Save icon''' is clicked, OnePager automatically '''saves''' the open chart in the '''.TAM''' file you named when the chart was first created (NEW).  If the chart has not yet been '''saved''', you are prompted to create a '''.TAM''' file name for it.
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:e) The attributes of '''Time Axes''' are managed and '''edited''' in the '''Template Properties''' and '''Chart Properties''' form's '''Time Axis''' tab.
  
===Using File Tab's Save Button===
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11) The '''Floating Time Axis''' is a feature that replicates any or all of the three '''time axis levels''' within a chart as a '''row or rows'''. 
  
A second way to '''save''' an open chart is to click the '''File''' tab as shown below:
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:a) The '''Floating Time Axis''' is useful in charts that are vertically long or where it is appropriate to show '''time axis levels'''
  
<center>[[File:P70-23_1_1-70-(3)-11272020.png]]</center>
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:b) After their creation, '''Floating Time Axes''' can be managed as '''rows''' in the chart.
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If the '''.TAM''' was not previously '''saved''', OnePager returns to the '''Chart Editor''' and opens the OnePager '''Save As''' form so you can create a '''name''' for the '''.TAM'''.  If the .TAM was previously '''saved''' using this method, OnePager again '''saves''' the '''.TAM''' under the previously created '''file name'''.
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12) '''Time Cursor''' is the optional vertical line showing the '''Snapshot date''' related to the '''timeline axes'''.
  
===Prompting the Save Operation By Clicking the File Tab's Close Button===
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13) '''Task bars and Milestone symbols''' are the main elements of your project plans that reside in '''rows'''.
  
A third way to cause the chart to be '''saved''' is to click the '''Close''' tab shown above which is the typical Microsoft Windows method for closing the application.  If no changes were made to an '''open''' chart that was previously '''saved''' or '''opened''' from a named '''.TAM''', the application is '''closed''' without '''re-saving''' the '''open .TAM'''.  However, if changes were made to the chart during the session, a '''Chronicle Graphics message''' form is displayed giving you the option to '''save the chart''':
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:a) '''Task bars/Milestone symbols''' can be displayed as different '''shapes, colors, fill patterns, and borders'''.
  
<center>[[File:P70-23_1_1-70-(4)-11272020.png]]</center>
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:b) Additionally, '''task bars/milestone symbols''' can be '''decorated''' with '''deadline shapes and endpoint shapes''' that are positioned by '''date''' information imported from your Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet '''source plan;'''.  
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===Prompting the Save Operation by Clicking the X in the Upper Right-Most Corner of the Chart Editor===
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:c) '''Task bars''' are '''colored''' Gantt bars that shows '''start and end dates''' relative to the '''time axis'''.
  
Finally, you can always force the '''saving of the chart''' if changes were made by clicking the red highlighted '''X''' in the upper-most right corner of the '''Chart Editor'''.  Again, if no changes were made the application is close.  If changes were made to the chart, the above '''message''' is displayed with the options shown.
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:d) '''Tasks bars''' can have '''borders''', '''fill patterns''', different '''colors''', and have optional '''shapes'''.
  
==Saving a Chart to a New .TAM File (Save As)==
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:e) '''Milestone symbols''' are a '''colored symbol''' that represents a milestone.  
  
At some point, you want to create one or more additional charts that show the same imported data in a different way.  
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:f) '''Milestone shapes''' are positioned on the chart with respect to either their '''start or end date''' per your selection.  
  
2) For example, you want to assign '''colors''' based on a different '''source plan data fields'''.  Or you want to show '''critical path segments''' in one chart and not in another.  '''Please note''' Saving a chart as a new '''.TAM''' file is '''not the same as creating a Template'''.  
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:g) You can choose to represent any task bars by a milestone symbol at its '''start or finish date'''.  
  
For more information on using '''Templates''', please see the article at: [[Managing Templates for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Managing Templates (Portal)]] <!--24.0.1-70-->
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:h) Additionally, OnePager can represent milestone symbols that are 100 percent complete as '''filled in''' with the designated '''color''' and milestones that are not 100 percent complete as '''hollow''' milestone.  
  
===Using Save As===
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:i) As with task bars, milestone symbols are available in various selected '''shapes, colors, fills, and borders'''.  There are over a hundred milestone symbol '''shapes''' available in OnePager.
  
To create a new chart name and '''.TAM''' file from an existing one, go to the OnePager ribbon, click the '''File''' button that takes you to the screen below then click the '''Save as…''' command tab on the left.  This action accesses the '''Save As chart''' form as shown below:
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:j) The attributes of task bars and milestone symbols are managed and '''edited''' in the '''Template Properties''' and '''Chart Properties''' forms' '''Task Bars''' and '''Milestones''' tabs.
  
<center>[[File:P70-23_1_1-70-(5)-11272020.png]]</center>
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14) '''Baseline Decorations''' are optional slightly-transparent '''shapes symbols''' showing the '''baseline schedule''' of a task bars or a milestone symbols taken from data imported from the '''source plan'''.
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===Retrieving a Saved As File===
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15) '''Percent-Complete'''  is represented as a '''thermometer bar''' in the lower part of the '''Task bar''' showing how much of the activity completed as of the '''snapshot date'''.
  
Whenever you launch OnePager again and want to '''OPEN''' this file, it can be found by clicking the '''OPEN''' button in the '''OnePager Pro Start''' form, then clicking '''BROWSE FILES''' button and looking up the file in the Microsoft Windows '''Open''' form as shown below:
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:a) This is shown as a yellow bar in the diagram above. 
  
<center>[[File:P70-23_1_1-70-(6-2)-11272020.png]]</center>
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:b) '''Note''' that this bar does nothing more than represent the '''percent-complete''' field '''imported''' from Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet '''source plans'''.
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Selecting the file with a single left click and then clicking the '''Open''' button loads the file.
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:c) OnePager has the capability to honor '''non-working''' time when graphically representing '''percent complete'''.
  
==Related Links==
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16) '''Critical-Path Segments''' is the optional bar segments on the upper part of the '''Task bar''' showing where the task's '''critical path''' intersects on the '''Task bar'''.
  
[[Getting Started with Version 7.0 (Portal) | Getting Started (Portal)]] <!--3.0.1-70-->
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:a) This optional bar segment can take on any available '''color'''.  
  
[[Using the OnePager "Data" Tab's "Selected file(s)" Button for Version 7.0 | Using the OnePager "Data" Tab's "Selected file(s)" Button]] <!--7.17.1-70-->
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:b) By default, the typical '''color''' for the '''critical-path segment''' is red.
  
[[Using OnePager Pro with Server Resident Project Plans for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Using OnePager Pro with Server Resident Project Plans (Portal)]] <!--8.5.1-70-->
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:c) '''Critical-path segments''' are not shown for '''Milestone symbols'''.
  
[[Managing Templates for Version 7.0 (Portal) | Managing Templates (Portal)]] <!--24.0.1-70-->
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:d) OnePager Express does not support the display of '''critical-path segments''' for either '''Task bars or Milestone symbols'''.
  
(23.1.1-70)
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17) '''Deadlines''' for task bars and milestone symbols can be represented in the chart with '''Deadline symbols'''.  
  
[[Category:Version 7.0]]
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:a) '''Deadline dates''' are taken from your '''Deadline''' field '''imported''' from Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet '''source plans'''.   
[[Category:Add-in]]
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[[Category:Desktop]]
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:b) '''Deadline''' symbols available are shared with '''milestone symbols''' in OnePager and have similar controllable properties.
[[Category:Basic Workflows]]
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[[Category:Editing the Chart]]
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18) Tasks can have up to four (4) '''Endpoints''' defined based upon '''date fields imported''' from the '''source plan'''.
[[Category:OnePager Choices Form]]
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[[Category:Data Management]]
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:a) By default, the following '''fields''' are assigned to the following '''Endpoints''' from Microsoft Project (Not shown above - See: [[Endpoints for OnePager for Version 7.2 | Endpoints for OnePager]] 10.11.1-72):
[[Category:OnePager .TAM Files]]
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::* '''Endpoint 1''' Start Date.
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::* '''Endpoint 2''' Finish Date (Not shown above.).
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::* '''Endpoint 3''' Baseline Start Date (Not shown above.).
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::* '''Endpoint 4''' Baseline Finish Date (Not shown above.).
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:b) There are four (4) '''Endpoints''' also defined for charts whose data are from Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, and Smartsheet. 
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:c) For these '''Endpoints''' you must specifically define the field associations in the '''Template''' or '''Chart Properties''' form.
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:d) '''Endpoint''' are not supported for '''Milestone symbols''' in either OnePager Pro, OnePager Express, or OnePager Bundle.
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19) '''Comment Box''' are versatile text graphic elements that let you attach additional information at one or more positions along any '''Task bars''' or '''Milestone symbols'''.
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:a) You can use the '''comment box''' to convey information about task bars or milestone symbols, meetings, and phase gates that happen '''inside''' an extended time period.
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:b) These '''comment boxes''' can change from '''snapshot to snapshot'''.
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:c) Each '''comment box''' can have an optional '''anchor''' on the task bar or milestone symbol (connected) to which it is attached.
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:d) '''Comment box borders''' and '''anchors''' can be transparent in which case only the content of the '''comment box''' is visible.
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:e) '''Comment boxes''' can be '''re-positioned''' and '''resized''' by using conventional '''drag and drop''' mouse operations. 
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:f) The '''background color''' of a '''comment box''' can be selected.
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:g) The text inside a '''Comment box''' can be '''edited'''.
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:h) The attributes of '''Comment boxes''' are managed and '''edited''' in the '''Template Properties''' and '''Chart Properties''' form's '''Comment Boxes''' tab.
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20) '''Task Links''' are connecting line segments that show a relationships among task bars and/or milestone symbols.
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:a) '''Task Link''' information can be '''imported''' from your '''source plan''' and are called '''Data-driven Task Links'''. 
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:b) There are controls for setting the various properties of '''Task Links'''. 
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:c) You also have the capability to create '''Task Links''' after the chart is created - '''Manual Task Links''', 
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:d) There is a short cut capability available for creating a set of connected '''manual Task Links''' in a fewer number of steps.  This process is called '''Daisy Chaining Manual Task Links'''. 
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:e) '''Task links''' can be different '''colors, thicknesses''', and can have associated '''text labels'''.  These properties can be '''edited''' after the chart is created.
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:f) The attributes of '''Task Links''' are managed and '''edited''' in the '''Template Properties''' and '''Chart Properties''' form's '''Task Links''' tab.
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21) '''Curtain''' are top to bottom '''colored and labeled area''' on the chart that can be used to designate an important time period.
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:a) '''Curtains''' can contain text '''labels'''. 
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:b) '''Curtains''' can be '''resized''' by using conventional '''drag and drop''' operations. 
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:c) In addition to being able to create and '''edit curtains''' from the OnePager '''Insert''' ribbon tool bar tab, '''curtains''' can be created by selecting a '''time axis level cell''' and using its '''context menu''' commands to '''insert a curtain''' into the chart. 
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:e) Finally, '''curtains''' can be '''tracked, created, edited, and deleted''' from the '''Chart Properties''' form's '''Time Axis''' tab's '''Format''' sub-tab.
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22) '''Hover Box''' is a text box that appears in the '''graph''' when the mouse '''hovers''' over any task bar or milestone symbol.  When the mouse is moved off the '''hover box''' disappears
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23) '''Free Box''' is a text box similar to a '''Comment Box''' but not associated with task bars or milestone symbols and appears in the chart without '''connecting lines'''. 
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:b) '''Free Boxes''' can be '''edited''' with respect to '''text content''', '''background color''', '''border properties''', '''transparency''', and '''size and position''' in the chart.
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24) '''Legend Item''' is an entry describing one '''color/shape''' combination for a task bars and milestone symbols appearing in the chart.
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:b) The '''Legend''' supports the display of '''Splitting and Parsing Columns''' in OnePager Pro, OnePager Express, and OnePager Bundle.
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:d) The attributes of the '''Legend''' are managed and '''edited''' in the '''Template Properties''' and '''Chart Properties''' form's '''Legend''' tab.
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25) '''OnePager Ribbon''' consists of six (6) tool bar tabs titled: '''File, Home, Insert, Page Layout, Data, and View'''. Additionally, on the extreme left on the OnePager ribbon tool bar are the '''save file''' button and the '''undo/redo''' buttons.
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26) '''Chart Title''' is the descriptive '''title''' of the chart that you select.  The '''Chart Title''' can be '''edited'''.
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29) '''Snapshot Date'''  is the date of the '''snapshot''' displayed in the current chart.
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Revision as of 15:52, 31 May 2022

About the OnePager Chart

The figure below shows the main features of the OnePager chart. Each numbered pointer refers to a paragraph number in the next section. This very busy chart has more content than you normally found one chart.

This chart was created to illustrate the major features available from OnePager Pro using data from Microsoft Project but the feature's function, controls, and manual edits apply equally to other OnePager editions that import from data sources like Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, and Oracle Primavera P6. Not all components in the list below this illustration are shown to avoid clutter.

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OnePager Chart Components

1) Swimlane levels are defined as a set of contiguous rows, grouped together, sorted in a defined sequence in accordance with user selected source plan data, and labeled in the one or all of the swimlane level columns selected to show in the chart.

a) Swimlane levels can be manipulated in various ways (i.e., ordered and reordered, moved up or down, added, deleted, merged, split, hidden and unhidden, and created from existing rows).
b) OnePager version 7.0 supports three (3) Swimlane Levels.
c) The attributes for swimlane levels are defined and can be edited in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form's Row/Swimlanes tab.

2) Swimlane Level Cell Labels are optional labels for each swimlane level cell. These labels can be edited.

3) Swimlane Level Stripes are alternating swimlane level cell background colors giving a horizontal stripe effect to the chart. (Not shown above.) See: Zebra Striping for Rows and Swimlanes for OnePager 12.24.1-72

4) Rows are the lowest level of horizontal organization that contain at least one task bar or milestone symbol.

a) Rows contain task bars and milestone symbols positioned and graphed in accordance with imported source plan data.
b) Rows are always contained in a swimlane level, even if the swimlane level's label column is hidden.
c) If there are multiple swimlane levels defined, the row can be a member of at least one swimlane level and can also be a member of two or more swimlane levels.
d) Rows can be manipulated in ways similar to swimlanes: ordered and reordered, moved up and down (within and between swimlanes), added, deleted, hidden, and unhidden.
e) Rows can be moved to different swimlane levels and become members of different swimlane level cells.
f) Rows can be inserted into the graph or hidden in the graph.

5) Text Columns (previously known as row labels) are column or columns containing imported source plan data as their text.

a) Text columns are placed in the chart to the immediate right of the Swimlane Label column.
b) There are up to five (5) Text Columns available.
c) Text column cells can be edited.

6) Row Stripes are alternating row background colors giving a horizontal stripe effect to the chart.

7) The Corner is the upper left and lower left areas of the chart where the Row/Swimlane column headings and time axis unit labels reside. The Corner can be made to show empty space that can be used for user defined text.

8) Swimlane Level Headings share the same area (The Corner) as the time axis unit label.

a) One or the other can be shown, but not both.
b) When all swimlane level cell labels are hidden, the swimlane heading is not displayed.
c) When a source plan field is selected for the swimlane level cell's label from Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet, the swimlane level's label value is shown in the heading.
d) The swimlane level heading can be edited after the chart is created.

9) Text Column Headings share the same area (The Corner) as swimlane level headings and time axis unit label.

a) Either time axis unit labels or swimlane level/text column headings can be shown in The Corner, not both.
b) When all text column labels are hidden, the text column heading is not displayed.
c) When a source plan field is selected for the text column label from the Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet the text column label value is shown in the heading.
d) The text column heading can be edited after the chart is created.

10) Time Axis is a set of tic marks and labels on the top or bottom of the chart (or both) showing the time divisions of the time axis.

a) You can choose to have the divisions represent days, weeks, months, quarters, etc.
b) You can specify calendar year or fiscal year formats and there are provisions for handling fiscal year starts mid-week.
c) You can specify background colors for the time axes.
d) You have the capability to re-order up and down the three time axis levels, hide time axis levels and cells, and stretch or compress time axis level cells in any level.
e) The attributes of Time Axes are managed and edited in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form's Time Axis tab.

11) The Floating Time Axis is a feature that replicates any or all of the three time axis levels within a chart as a row or rows.

a) The Floating Time Axis is useful in charts that are vertically long or where it is appropriate to show time axis levels.
b) After their creation, Floating Time Axes can be managed as rows in the chart.

12) Time Cursor is the optional vertical line showing the Snapshot date related to the timeline axes.

13) Task bars and Milestone symbols are the main elements of your project plans that reside in rows.

a) Task bars/Milestone symbols can be displayed as different shapes, colors, fill patterns, and borders.
b) Additionally, task bars/milestone symbols can be decorated with deadline shapes and endpoint shapes that are positioned by date information imported from your Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet source plan;.
c) Task bars are colored Gantt bars that shows start and end dates relative to the time axis.
d) Tasks bars can have borders, fill patterns, different colors, and have optional shapes.
e) Milestone symbols are a colored symbol that represents a milestone.
f) Milestone shapes are positioned on the chart with respect to either their start or end date per your selection.
g) You can choose to represent any task bars by a milestone symbol at its start or finish date.
h) Additionally, OnePager can represent milestone symbols that are 100 percent complete as filled in with the designated color and milestones that are not 100 percent complete as hollow milestone.
i) As with task bars, milestone symbols are available in various selected shapes, colors, fills, and borders. There are over a hundred milestone symbol shapes available in OnePager.
j) The attributes of task bars and milestone symbols are managed and edited in the Template Properties and Chart Properties forms' Task Bars and Milestones tabs.

14) Baseline Decorations are optional slightly-transparent shapes symbols showing the baseline schedule of a task bars or a milestone symbols taken from data imported from the source plan.

15) Percent-Complete is represented as a thermometer bar in the lower part of the Task bar showing how much of the activity completed as of the snapshot date.

a) This is shown as a yellow bar in the diagram above.
b) Note that this bar does nothing more than represent the percent-complete field imported from Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet source plans.
c) OnePager has the capability to honor non-working time when graphically representing percent complete.

16) Critical-Path Segments is the optional bar segments on the upper part of the Task bar showing where the task's critical path intersects on the Task bar.

a) This optional bar segment can take on any available color.
b) By default, the typical color for the critical-path segment is red.
c) Critical-path segments are not shown for Milestone symbols.
d) OnePager Express does not support the display of critical-path segments for either Task bars or Milestone symbols.

17) Deadlines for task bars and milestone symbols can be represented in the chart with Deadline symbols.

a) Deadline dates are taken from your Deadline field imported from Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet source plans.
b) Deadline symbols available are shared with milestone symbols in OnePager and have similar controllable properties.

18) Tasks can have up to four (4) Endpoints defined based upon date fields imported from the source plan.

a) By default, the following fields are assigned to the following Endpoints from Microsoft Project (Not shown above - See: Endpoints for OnePager 10.11.1-72):
  • Endpoint 1 Start Date.
  • Endpoint 2 Finish Date (Not shown above.).
  • Endpoint 3 Baseline Start Date (Not shown above.).
  • Endpoint 4 Baseline Finish Date (Not shown above.).
b) There are four (4) Endpoints also defined for charts whose data are from Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, and Smartsheet.
c) For these Endpoints you must specifically define the field associations in the Template or Chart Properties form.
d) Endpoint are not supported for Milestone symbols in either OnePager Pro, OnePager Express, or OnePager Bundle.

19) Comment Box are versatile text graphic elements that let you attach additional information at one or more positions along any Task bars or Milestone symbols.

a) You can use the comment box to convey information about task bars or milestone symbols, meetings, and phase gates that happen inside an extended time period.
b) These comment boxes can change from snapshot to snapshot.
c) Each comment box can have an optional anchor on the task bar or milestone symbol (connected) to which it is attached.
d) Comment box borders and anchors can be transparent in which case only the content of the comment box is visible.
e) Comment boxes can be re-positioned and resized by using conventional drag and drop mouse operations.
f) The background color of a comment box can be selected.
g) The text inside a Comment box can be edited.
h) The attributes of Comment boxes are managed and edited in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form's Comment Boxes tab.

20) Task Links are connecting line segments that show a relationships among task bars and/or milestone symbols.

a) Task Link information can be imported from your source plan and are called Data-driven Task Links.
b) There are controls for setting the various properties of Task Links.
c) You also have the capability to create Task Links after the chart is created - Manual Task Links,
d) There is a short cut capability available for creating a set of connected manual Task Links in a fewer number of steps. This process is called Daisy Chaining Manual Task Links.
e) Task links can be different colors, thicknesses, and can have associated text labels. These properties can be edited after the chart is created.
f) The attributes of Task Links are managed and edited in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form's Task Links tab.

21) Curtain are top to bottom colored and labeled area on the chart that can be used to designate an important time period.

a) Curtains can contain text labels.
b) You can define any number of curtains and specify their start and end period dates.
b) Curtains can be resized by using conventional drag and drop operations.
c) In addition to being able to create and edit curtains from the OnePager Insert ribbon tool bar tab, curtains can be created by selecting a time axis level cell and using its context menu commands to insert a curtain into the chart.
d) There is an additionally capability under certain circumstances to show non-working times in the chart as curtains.
e) Finally, curtains can be tracked, created, edited, and deleted from the Chart Properties form's Time Axis tab's Format sub-tab.

22) Hover Box is a text box that appears in the graph when the mouse hovers over any task bar or milestone symbol. When the mouse is moved off the hover box disappears

a) This feature can be turned ON and OFF from OnePager's View ribbon tool bar tab.
b) In addition to displaying task name and dates, it displays the unique identifier that lets you trace the task bars or milestone symbols back to the tasks in your Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6, or Smartsheet source plan. (Not Shown Above) See: Advanced Tab - Show Hover Boxes Checkbox 21.13.1-72

23) Free Box is a text box similar to a Comment Box but not associated with task bars or milestone symbols and appears in the chart without connecting lines.

a) The Free Box is created from OnePager's Insert ribbon tool bar tab.
b) Free Boxes can be edited with respect to text content, background color, border properties, transparency, and size and position in the chart.

24) Legend Item is an entry describing one color/shape combination for a task bars and milestone symbols appearing in the chart.

a) Right clicking the legend item or the color bar lets you change one color/shape combination for all affected task bar and milestone symbol.
b) The Legend supports the display of Splitting and Parsing Columns in OnePager Pro, OnePager Express, and OnePager Bundle.
c) The Legend can be hidden in the chart.
d) The attributes of the Legend are managed and edited in the Template Properties and Chart Properties form's Legend tab.

25) OnePager Ribbon consists of six (6) tool bar tabs titled: File, Home, Insert, Page Layout, Data, and View. Additionally, on the extreme left on the OnePager ribbon tool bar are the save file button and the undo/redo buttons.

26) Chart Title is the descriptive title of the chart that you select. The Chart Title can be edited.

27) Chart Filename is the name of the .TAM file in which the chart and it's properties are stored and retrieved. (Not shown above)

28) Header/Footer Elements consist of up to six elements that are entered in the Chart Properties form.

a) There are three (3) header elements and three (3) footer elements.
b) All can be selected from attributes of the chart and the imported source plan.
c) The header/footer elements are accessible on the Template Properties and Chart Properties form's Headers/Footers tab.

29) Snapshot Date is the date of the snapshot displayed in the current chart.

30) OnePager Editor Last Action is the last editing action taken by the Chart Editor.

Other Graphic Features

For editing in the Chart Editor the general rule is that a left-click selects component and highlights it with a rectangle. Once a component is highlighted it can be manipulated with the mouse or edited using the Icons on the various OnePager ribbon tool bar tabs. Right-clicking on a component generally accesses the component's right-click context menu. These right-click context menus contain left-clickable commands that perform useful editing operations on the component, access sub-context menus, or access various forms and sub-forms where more attributes can be edited. Once selected, rows and swimlane levels can be dragged and dropped up and down in the graph or their heights can be manipulated using the grab boxes provided on the component.

OnePager forms and sub-forms contain controls that include checkboxes, left-clickable buttons, radio buttons, dropdown menus (lists), dial-value windows, slider-bars, calendar dropdown sub-forms, value information windows, the standard OnePager Color Chooser form, the standard OnePager Shape Chooser form, and forms with grids for user input information.

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