Difference between revisions of "Order of Tasks/Milestones Decorations for Version 7.0"

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About Ordering Task/Milestones With Decorations

1) Editing the z-ordering for specific task/milestone decorations is useful when these decorations are overlaid in the chart by other graphics.

2) Decorations on tasks/milestones are always drawn in the same z-order from back to front.

Standard Ordering of Decorations

3) This fixed ordering from back to front is given below:

a) Connectors in back (e.g., baseline to task/milestone, endpoints, and deadline connectors to task/milestone)

b) Task/Milestone

c) Baseline

d) Endpoints/Deadline

e) All text for task/milestone, deadline and endpoints in front.

Editing the Ordering of Task/Milestones with Decorations

4) Editing the z-order for a task/milestone shape with decorations is done on an individual task/milestone basis.

5) That is, you must first select the task/milestone shape with a right-click to access the context menu as shown below:

Ordering Sub-Command

6) The sub-menu for the Order command allows you to select any of the four sub-commands as follows:

a) Bring to front. This option puts the task/milestone decorations in front of all other shapes in the chart area.

b) Send to back. This option puts the task/milestone decorations behind all other foreground shapes in the chart area (but not behind background shapes).

c) Bring forward. Selecting the Bring forward option steps the task/milestone decorations forward by one increment of Z-level. This is not very useful.

d) Send backward. This option steps the task/milestone decorations backward by one Z-level. This also is not very useful.

6) The action of the Order command applies to the task/milestone itself and all decorations associated with it including Task Links.

Example

1) Suppose we have a chart with Percent Complete decorations shown on some task/milestone shapes as shown below:

2) If the Engineering Team 2 Development task is moved up to overlay the ADONIS Subcontractor Selection Task the chart then looks like this:

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