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| − | ==Introduction to the Critical Path Feature in OnePager==
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| − | This article describes OnePager’s '''Critical Path''' feature. The article covers the '''Add-in''' and '''Standalone''' editions of OnePager Pro, and OnePager 360. Illustrations used in this article are from OnePager Pro but the feature's function, controls, and manual edits apply equally to OnePager 360.
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| − | ==About Editing The Critical Path==
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| − | A powerful feature of OnePager is the ability to display the '''critical path''' on task bar in the OnePager '''graph'''. '''Critical Path''' information is generated in your '''source plan''' and made available to OnePager when your '''source plan''' data are '''imported'''. When you '''enable''' the '''critical path''' capability, OnePager displays '''critical path''' information within the displayed task bars. Below is a sample chart with the '''critical path''' feature '''enabled''':
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| − | ==Critical Path Representation==
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| − | This feature displays '''critical path segments''' on the top of each task bar showing where the '''source plan's''' '''critical path''' intersects with each task bar on the '''path''' as illustrated above.
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| − | ===Critical Paths in Virtual Summary Tasks===
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| − | The '''critical path segments''' for a '''summary task''' are '''computed''' by finding sub-task bars that are on the '''critical path''' and have no sub-task bars of their own. OnePager then applies the same rule to sub-task bars of sub-task bars, if any. OnePager repeats this search until it examines the entire '''work breakdown structure''' beneath the '''summary task'''. To determine whether a given sub-task bar is on the '''critical path''', OnePager can use the Microsoft Project '''critical path''' indicator '''Critical''' field in your '''source plan'''. Alternatively, OnePager can use any '''Flag''' or '''Number''' fields in your '''source plan''' as a '''critical path''' indicator. A '''virtual summary task (VST)''' constructed from several individual task bars in the chart with '''critical path segments''' looks like this:
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| − | ===Virtual Summary Tasks with Critical Path Segments Turned OFF===
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| − | When a task bar is '''edited''' to not display the '''critical path segment''' and that task bar is included in a Virtual Summary Task ('''VST'''). The task bar with the '''maverick critical path segment''' is '''still represented''' in the '''virtual summary task''' with the '''critical path''' displayed as shown in the two illustrations that follow. Five tasks in the chart before construction in '''Virtual Summary Task''':
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| − | The constructed '''Virtual Summary Task''' from the five task bars shown above is shown here:
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| − | Although the chart before the construction of the '''Virtual Summary Task''' shows a '''gap''' in the '''critical path''', nevertheless, the actual '''critical path''' for the constructed '''Virtual Summary Task''' is contiguous. In effect, '''Virtual Summary Tasks''' are constructed to ignore any '''maverick critical path segment''' that are not displayed in the chart.
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| − | For more information on '''Virtual Summary Tasks''', please see the article at: [[Creating and Managing Virtual Summary Tasks for Version 7.1 | Creating and Managing Virtual Summary Tasks]] 18.0.1-71
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| − | ==Editing All Task Critical Path Properties==
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| − | '''All''' task bar '''critical path properties''' can be '''edited''' without changing the settings in the current '''Template Properties''' form by using these steps.
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| − | ===Chart Properties Form's Task Bars Tab===
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| − | Click the '''Chart Properties''' button on the '''Home''' ribbon tool bar tab in the '''Settings''' group. Next, navigate to either the '''Task Bars''' tab. Ensure that the '''Critical-Path Segments''' checkbox is checked '''ON''' as shown below:
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| − | ===Set Critical-Path Properties Form===
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| − | You can control the '''critical-path segments''' property's by clicking the '''Critical Path Properties''' button which accesses the '''Set critical-path properties''' form shown below:
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| − | The default '''Critical-path field''' setting is '''Critical''', that is, the field that OnePager uses to access '''critical path segment''' information from your Microsoft Project '''source plan''' for its '''computations'''. As shown below, you can select from other Microsoft Project '''source plan''' fields that are either '''Boolean''' or '''Numeric''':
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| − | In the '''Set critical-path properties''' form, you can '''edit''' the '''color''' of the '''critical path segment''' represented in a task bar by clicking the '''Critical-path color''' dropdown button which accesses the standard '''Color Chooser''' form. Additionally, you can adjust the '''height''' of the '''critical-path segment''' within the task bar by '''editing''' the percentage value in the '''Critical-path height''' control of the above form. The '''Critical-path height''' is a percentage of the total '''task bar height'''. The default setting is '''20 percent'''. Here is an example of task bar with the '''Critical-path height''' set to 50%:
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| − | ===Import Rules for Source Plan Critical Path Data===
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| − | If you did not previously check the '''Critical-Path Segments''' checkbox '''ON''' in the '''Task Bar''' tab of the '''Chart Properties''' form before '''importing''' your '''source plan''' data to OnePager, you are not able to display the '''critical path segments''' because OnePager did not '''compute''' the '''critical path segments''' when '''importing''' the '''source plan'''. As discussed above, it is recommended that you turn '''ON''' the '''critical-path segment''' display controls in the '''Template Properties''' form before '''importing''' the '''source plan'''. However, you can subsequently use the controls above in the '''Chart Properties''' form to display '''critical-path segments''' in follow on snapshots. This is done by checking the '''Critical-Path Segments''' checkbox '''ON''' in the '''Task Bars''' tab of the '''Chart Properties''' form. With this control checked '''ON''', all subsequent snapshots display '''critical path segments''' depending on the '''source plan''' data '''imported'''.
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| − | ===Milestone Symbols And Critical Path Segments Representation===
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| − | OnePager does not support the representation of '''critical-path segments''' for milestone symbols. Accordingly, there are no '''Critical Path Segment Controls''' on the '''Milestone''' tab of the '''Template Properties''' form or the '''Chart Properties''' form which is shown below in the highlighted '''Milestone Symbols Decorations''' control group:
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| − | ==Editing Individual Task/Milestone Critical Path Properties==
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| − | The '''default settings''' for displaying '''critical path''' information for individual task bars (milestones do not have '''critical path segments''') can be minimally '''edited''' by using these steps. Select the task bar and right-click to access the '''task bar''' right-click '''context menu''' with the '''Format…''' command, or right-click the '''task bar name label''', or click the '''Format…''' button on the OnePager '''Home''' ribbon tool bar tab after selecting the desired task bar/milestone symbols. Clicking the '''Format...''' button accesses the '''Change Task/Milestone Properties''' form. Now, click the '''Critical Segments''' tab in the '''Change Task/Milestone Properties''' form which looks like this:
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| − | The '''Show Critical-Path Segments''' checkbox allows you to turn the '''critical path''' '''ON''' and '''OFF''' for the selected task bar. Clicking the '''Use Critical-Segments Defaults''' button changes the selected task bar’s '''critical path segment properties''' to the '''critical path''' settings current in the '''Chart Properties''' form. Here is an example of a chart with one task bar’s '''critical path''' turned '''OFF''':
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| − | ===Individual Editing of Other Task Bar Critical Path Properties===
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| − | There are no controls in the '''Critical Segments''' tab of the '''Change Task/Milestone Properties''' form to '''edit''' other '''critical path properties''' for an individually selected task bars such as '''critical-path field''', '''color''', and '''critical-path height'''.
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| − | ===Critical Path Segments and Milestone Symbols===
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| − | As mentioned earlier, OnePager does not support the representation of '''critical-path segments''' for milestone symbols. If you select a milestone symbol with a right-click to access its right-click '''context menu''' and subsequently click the '''Format...''' command, the version of the '''Change Task/Milestone Properties''' form accessed does not have the '''Critical Segment''' tab as shown below:
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| − | ==Related Links==
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| − | [[Creating and Managing Virtual Summary Tasks for Version 7.1 | Creating and Managing Virtual Summary Tasks]] 18.0.1-71
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| − | (10.7.1-71)
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| − | [[Category:Version 7.1]]
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| − | [[Category:Charts]]
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| − | [[Category:Chart Properties Form]]
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| − | [[Category:Editing the Chart]]
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| − | [[Category:Task/Milestone Editing]]
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| − | [[Category:Task/Milestone Decorations]]
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| − | [[Category:Critical Path]]
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| − | [[Category:Mavericks]]
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| − | [[Category:OnePager Pro]]
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| − | [[Category:OnePager Express]]
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| − | [[Category:OnePager 360]]
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