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Label Text Element Ordering

Overview

In previous version of OnePager Pro and Express two or more text elements such as task labels, date labels, or percent complete values associated with a task bar/milestone symbol were represented in the graph horizontally in a fixed order left to right. OnePager version 7.0 provides the capabilities and controls for you to change text element ordering as well as select for horizontal or vertical positioning of that order.

The controls for label text element ordering are found in the Template Properties and Chart Properties forms at the Task Bars and Milestones tabs. Label text element ordering controls for OnePager Pro and OnePager Express are the same and functions the same in both products. The Change Label Text Element Ordering button is shown below in the Chart Properties form’s Task Bars tab:

Clicking the Change Label Text Element Ordering button accesses the Change Text Element Ordering Change Label Text Element Order form shown below:

When task bar name labels, date labels, and percent compete values are shown in the chart, a typical chart looks like this:

Ordering Options

At the top of the Change Text Element Order form there are four radio buttons. These radio buttons represent the four options available for ordering the three text elements with respect to their parent task bar/milestone symbol. These options are discussed below:

Order Text Element Left to Right

With left to right ordering, the first text element (identified in the Order windows in the lower portion of the form) appears to the left of the other text elements. This is the default ordering and is shown in the two illustrations above. This option is typically used when you position task bar/milestone symbol text elements in Label positions that are horizontally oriented such as Left, Right, Best fit left/right, and Best fit in task bar.

Order Top to Bottom

The top to bottom ordering is typically uses in situations where you want to keep the text elements compact horizontally. This option is typically used when you position task bar/milestone symbol text elements in Label positions such as Above, Below, Best fit above/below, and Best fit all directions. In many cases it is useful also to increase the height of the row so that sufficient room is provided for up to three text elements as shown below:

As for an example, the chart portion looks like this with text element Label position remaining as Best fit left/right:

Order Horizontal Inside to Outside

The third option radio button, when selected, orders text elements horizontally inside to outside. This means that the first text element is always closest to the task bar, the next text element is further to the left, and the third text element is furthest to the left. This text element ordering option is best used when text elements are to appear in the chart in horizontal arrangements. This update to the Change Text Element Order form is shown below:

When this ordering is applied to the chart, it looks like this:

Notice that regardless of the sequencing of the three text elements, the designated first text element is always closest to the task bar.

Order Vertically Inside to Outside

The last option radio button, when selected, orders text elements vertically inside to outside. This means that the first text element is always closest to the task bar, the next text element is further away from the task bar, and the third text element is furthest away from the task bar in vertical orientation. This text element ordering option is best used when text elements are to appear in the chart in vertical arrangements.

To make an example that is different from the previous examples, we’ll modify the Chang Text Element Order form to show Date Labels as the first text element in the ordering. The corresponding Change Text Element Order form is shown below:

When this change is applied to the chart, along with appropriate heightening of rows and selecting the Best fit above/below text element Label position, a selected portion of the chart looks like this:

Again notice that regardless of the sequencing of the three text elements, the designated first text element is always closest to the task bar. In the illustration above, the first text element is Date label(s).

Text Element Order Sequencing

The lower portion of the Change Text Element Order form provides you with the controls to change the sequence of text elements as they are used in the four ordering options discussed in the previous sub-section. The default settings are:

• Task/milestone label – First

• Date label(s) – Second

• Percent Complete - Third

Changing the text element order sequence changes the order of text elements applied to the chart when one of the four ordering options is selected.

Relationship to Other Text Element Positioning Controls

The Change Text Element Order form is used to make global changes to text element ordering in the chart. That said, you can always use the OnePager Home ribbon tool bar’s Label position dropdown to change the label position of any of the three possible text elements by individually selecting the text element and making the manual Label position change.

Using the chart shown below as a starting point, the text elements are ordered left to right with the Date label(s) as the First text element in the sequence:

For this example, suppose we select the Percent complete value of the Create Working Plan task bar of 50% change its position in the row to the left of the task bar. This can be done in two steps:

1) Click on the 50% value in the task bar’s row to select the value. This places a selection rectangle around the text element and enables the Label position dropdown on the OnePager Home ribbon tool bar tab as shown here:

2) Go to the enabled Label Position dropdown list and click on the Left position option. The result is that the 50% value is repositioned to the left of the task bar and the remaining text elements are unchanged as shown below:

Please be advised that in some cases, repositioning text elements can trigger the text collision avoidance algorithm to operate if the text collision avoidance feature is turned ON.

Related Links

Manual Editing Task/Milestone Shapes and Text Labels (Portal)

Editing with the Chart Properties form (Portal)

Managing Templates (Portal)

Selecting Task/Milestone Shapes and Text Labels

Changing Individual Task/Milestone Properties (Color, Shapes, Labels, etc.)

Resolving Task Label Collisions for OnePager Pro

Resolving Task Label Collisions for OnePager Express

Text Element Ordering

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