Field Mappings Tab for Smartsheet in OnePager Version 7.1
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Overview
Illustrations used in this article are from a Smartsheet source plan where the original project scheduling data were uploaded to Smartsheet from a Microsoft Excel source plan.
What Is Unlimited Field Mapping?
The Unlimited Field Mapping feature lets you use a source plan column that is not already available to you in the Chart Editor. The feature allows you to avoid going back to the Template Properties form to map additional columns for the specific purposes you need without having to recreate a new chart. Having to recreate a new chart is cumbersome and inefficient, especially if you already invested time editing the original chart before you realized that you needed another source plan column.
The Unlimited Field Mapping (UFM) feature is a vastly more efficient way to bring additional source plan columns into the Chart Editor after you've created and edited your chart. With UFM, the Chart Editor can access all source plan columns.
Field Mapping is defined as the use of a source plan column for a particular OnePager purpose. There are more than twenty-five (25) OnePager purposes from Baseline Finish Date to Unique task bar/milestone symbol identifier. You can easily refer back to your source plan and access changed columns from the Chart Editor.
For example, you can populate a Text column in your Smartsheet source plan and then use that column to present data in a Text Column after the chart is first created. Further, OnePager gives you a more efficient way to change the field mapping for eight (8) of the most frequently used OnePager presentation purposes.
For more information on Field Mapping, please see the Frequently Asked Questions topics at: [Field Mapping]
The Field Mapping Tab
Since the Unlimited Field Mapping feature allows you to access all fields from Microsoft Excel source plans at any time in the life cycle of a chart, the Field Mappings tab no longer needs to map fields to extra purposes that are just carried along in case you need them.
The Field Mapping tab focuses on common OnePager purposes that users can map to Microsoft Excel fields after a chart is created. Note, however, that other important OnePager purposes are on Rows/Swimlanes, Task Bars, and Milestones tabs. Some purposes such as Task Name, Percent-Complete, and Critical Path appear both on the Field Mapping tab and on the Task Bars and Milestones tabs. For OnePager Express there are seven (7) purposes named in the Field Mappings tab: (1) Percent-complete, (2) Task-name, (3) Start date, (4) Finish date, (5) Baseline start date, (6) Baseline finish date, (7) Deadline date.
The Field Mappings tab for the Chart Properties form is shown below:
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For more information on the Unlimited Column Mapping feature, please see the article at: Unlimited Field Mapping 7.19.1-71
Special Considerations for the Task/Milestone Identity Mapping Feature
The Field Mappings tab shows the Microsoft Excel field currently being used for the Task/Milestone Identity Mapping feature. In the Chart Properties form, the Task/Milestone Identity Mapping is disabled but tells you which Microsoft Excel field is being used. The Task/Milestone Identity Mapping field being used is specified in the Template Properties form to act as an alternate Unique ID field for OnePager Express UPDATE operations. You can change it to whatever field you want, but it is your responsibility to make sure that the chosen field has a unique value for each task you plan to import and display in OnePager. Having duplicate values in the Unique ID field causes task bars to be omitted and/or misidentified later on when you are doing updates of the chart.
Special Considerations for the Field Splitting Feature
OnePager Express continues to support Field Splitting with the control on the Field Mappings tab in the Template Properties form and Chart Properties forms. Field Splitting can be performed on any source plan string type field with comma-separated components imported before the chart is created. It cannot be changed once a chart is created, though its value is shown in the Chart Properties form to remind you of the splitting that is active in the chart.
Field Mappings
There are four (4) controls groups found on the Field Mappings tab.
Basic Mappings
Within the Basic Mappings control group there are three (3) basic columns already established that can be remapped. You can use any Microsoft Excel field of the appropriate type corresponding to the Basic Mapping field named for the dropdown.
The dropdown list for the Task label field is shown in the example below:
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Selecting a different Microsoft Excel field from the dropdown list tells OnePager to go back to the Microsoft Excel source plan, retrieve the data for that field, and use that data for the purpose of the chart. This re-acquisition of Microsoft Excel source plan data is done when you click Apply on the Chart Properties form which keeps the Chart Properties form visible or when you click OK which closes the Chart Properties form. The current chart is updated accordingly in the Chart Editor. The process for the other Basic Mapping fields for Critical-path segments and Task labels is the same as shown above for Percent complete.
Date Mappings
There are five (5) Date Mappings purposes in this control group that are available to be remapped. You can use any Microsoft Excel date field that can be accessed in the individual dropdown lists as shown in the example below:
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As with the selections in the Basic Mappings control group, selecting a different Microsoft Excel field from the dropdown list tells OnePager to go back to the Microsoft Excel source plan, retrieve the data for that field, and use that data for the designated the OnePager Express purpose in the chart. This re-acquisition of Microsoft Excel source plan data is done when you click Apply on the Chart Properties form which keeps the Chart Properties form visible or when you click OK which closes the Chart Properties form. The current chart is updated accordingly in the Chart Editor.
Task/Milestone Identity Mapping
Task/Milestone Identity Mapping for OnePager Express
In the Chart Properties form, this control group is informational. The control group is disabled in the Chart Properties form but the Unique Id window shows the setting previously or currently set in the Template Properties form’s Field Mappings tab. As such, the window is for information purposes only and cannot be changed.
The Task/Milestone Identity Mapping control group is shown below:
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The Unique Id field shows the Microsoft Excel field that OnePager Express used when it first created the chart. This feature is provided to assist advanced OnePager Express users update charts that were created from source plans where portions of one Microsoft Excel source plan were copied into another. When OnePager updates a chart, it needs to identify each task and milestone that is being imported and find out if it already exists in chart. This is how OnePager preserves the formatting of the task bars/milestone symbols and places them in the same row/swimlane where they resided before the update.
When the data in the source plan are a .xls file, OnePager has traditionally used the Microsoft Excel Task ID field inserted by the user for this purpose. You can control what values of Task ID appear in the .xls file when you copy data into that file. As a result, .xls files that had data copied into them can have problems preserving OnePager Excel's formatting and row/swimlane positioning. To solve this problem, OnePager Express lets you define and use a substitute Microsoft Excel field as an alternative Unique ID for uniquely identifying tasks. You are then responsible for guaranteeing that these field values are preserved when data is copied from one .xls file to another. You are also responsible for making sure that there are no duplicate values in the field designated for his alternative Task ID usage.
The alternate Task ID can be set in one of two places:
- 1) In the Template Properties form's Field Mappings tab and
- 2) In the OnePager Choices form's second page by clicking the Edit current template... button.
We strongly recommend that you set the alternate Task ID in the Template Properties form rather than with the OnePager Choices form because this ensures that all charts use a consistent alternative Task ID field.
Reset Unique Ids On Update
The Reset unique ids on update checkbox is disabled in the Advanced tab of the Chart Properties form and cannot be enabled. The disabled checkbox is provided in the form for consistency so that you see that it is there. This feature can be enabled as a last resort under the situation where you are attempting to merge Excel source plans from different physical files into a single source plan where the Excel Unique IDs do not match.
Contact OnePager Support for information on how to use this rarely-used feature by referring to the article at: Getting Support and Contacting OnePager 30.0.1-71
For additional help, please go to the following link to the OnePager Frequently Asked Questions page: Selecting a Custom Unique ID.
If you encounter difficulties, contact our Support Team at support ticket, by e-mailing us, or by calling +1.303.779.0344.
Field Splitting
As with the control group discussed previously, the Field Splitting control group is disabled but shows the Microsoft Excel field currently set in the Template Properties form as the field participating in field splitting. As such, the window is for information purposes only and cannot be changed.
The Field Splitting control group is shown below:
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The Field Splitting control group in the Field Mappings tab of the OnePager Express Chart Properties form works in the same way as it did in the Other Columns tab of previous versions.
For more information on Splitting and parsing columns, please see the articles at: Splitting and Parsing Fields-OnePager Express 24.5.1-71 and Splitting and Parsing Fields-OnePager Pro 24.4.1-71
Related Links
Unlimited Column Mapping 7.19.1-71
Advanced Tab for OnePager -Reset Unique Ids On Update 21.13.1-71
Splitting and Parsing Fields-OnePager Pro 24.4.1-71
Splitting and Parsing Fields-OnePager Express 24.5.1-71
Splitting and Parsing Columns for Primavera P6 Source Plans in OnePager Version 7.1 24.5.2-71
Splitting and Parsing Columns for Smartsheet Source Plans in OnePager Version 7.1 24.5.3-71
Getting Support and Contacting OnePager 30.0.1-71
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