View source for Task Bars Tab for Version 6.0 (OnePager Express)

==About the Task Bars Tab-OnePager Express==

This tab page, shown below, lets you control the '''style and decoration''' of task bars. 

Additionally, within this tab are the controls for creating and managing '''conditional formatting rules'''.

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==Gantt Bar Styles==

1) '''Default Gantt Bar Styles'''.   Collected in this group are all the controls associated with defining or changing the properties of '''Gantt bars (task bars)'''. These controls include:

:a) '''Shape'''. The dropdown menu shows the eight (8) varieties of '''task bar shapes''' available for use. 

:b) '''Fill'''. This dropdown menu shows the five (5) available '''task bars fill''' or '''texture''' options. 

:c) '''Gantt Bar Height'''. Allows you to set the '''bar height''' as an absolute quantity ('''inches or centimeters''') or as a '''percentage of the row height''', which is shown in parentheses for reference.

:d) '''Border Controls'''.   In the upper right corner of the form, these controls allow you change the '''color''' of the '''Gantt bar border''', the '''width of the border''' and the '''border’s style'''.  Further, you have the capability to establish the '''border color''' to be the same as the '''Gantt bar fill color'''.

:e) '''Gantt Bar/Milestone Fill Color'''. You can specify a '''single color''' for all Gantt bars via the '''Color Chooser''' form when the '''Use one color:''' radio button is selected.   More commonly, selecting the '''Color-code based on''' radio button allows you to select a field from your Microsoft Excel '''source plan''' to assign a data driven '''color''' to each task.   

::i) The data driven '''color''' assignment is sometimes referred to as '''round-robin color'''.   
::ii) OnePager goes in sequence through the '''color palette''' and assigns a new '''color''' when it finds a new distinct value in the data.  If it finds more distinct values than there are colors in the palette, it starts over at the beginning of the palette and uses each color for a second data value, and so on.
::iii) Also note that the '''Color-code based on''' selects a single data field that applies to both task bars and milestones.   This is one of the few places where tasks and milestones are constrained to have the same default behavior.   
::iv) Using the '''conditional formatting''' feature for '''color''' assignments allows you to distinguish the color assignments of tasks from those of milestones.

:f)  '''Mirror format settings between task bars and milestones'''.   When this checkbox is checked, OnePager will automatically make any changes to '''Milestones''' properties that are made to '''Task Bars''' properties for all settings where a '''blue dot''' appears to the right of the setting.  . '''Task Bar''' and '''Milestone''' fill colors are always '''mirrored''' regardless of the '''Mirror...''' checkbox being checked on or off.

==Gantt Bar Decorations==

2) '''Gantt Bar Decorations'''   There are '''six (6) decorations''' for Gantt bars. Each may be turned on by checking the associated checkbox. Each of these decoration’s controls may be accessed by clicking the adjacent button. Following are brief descriptions of each '''decoration''':

:a) '''Gantt Bar Label Properties...'''.   Clicking this button will display the '''Set Label Properties''' form shown below wherein the '''Gantt bar label font properties''' and '''label position''' may be set.

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:b) '''%Complete Properties…'''.  Clicking this button will display the '''Set percent-complete properties''' form shown below which controls the display characteristics of the '''%Complete''' representation.

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:c) '''Baseline Properties'''.   Clicking this button will display the '''Set baseline properties''' form shown below which controls the '''shape, fill, and color''' of baseline bars, '''the connecting line''' properties, and how the '''baseline dates''' will be displays.

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:d) '''Date Label Properties…'''.   This button, when selected, will display the '''Set date label properties''' form shown below which allows you to control the '''properties of the date label'''. You can control the '''date label’s font properties''', the '''position''' and display of the '''start and finish date''', the '''format of the date label''', and how to '''separate''' the '''date''' from the '''task bar’s label text'''.

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:e) '''Deadline Properties…'''.   Clicking this button will display the '''Set deadline properties''' form shown below which controls for the '''shape, fill, and position''' of the '''deadline''' controls.  It also lets you set a special '''color''' to denote '''deadlines''' that have '''not''' been met. Additionally, as with the '''Baseline Properties''' form described above, the  '''Set deadline properties''' form controls '''connecting lines''' for '''deadlines''' and the '''properties of deadline date display'''.

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:f) '''Endpoint Properties…'''.   Clicking this button displays the '''Set endpoint properties''' form shown below which controls all properties for '''up to four endpoints'''. Each '''endpoint''' can display the '''date imported from any date field''' from Microsoft Excel.  These properties are controlled essentially the same way as described above for '''Deadline Properties''' form, above.

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==Conditional Formatting==

3) '''Conditional Formatting: '''   This group on the '''Task Bar''' tab has one button, the '''Manage Rules…''' button. 

:a) Clicking this button displays the '''Conditional Formatting Rules''' form shown below which permits you to '''define, change, delete, and copy''' rules governing the display of task bars based on data imported from your Microsoft Excel '''source plan'''.   

:b) There are two ways to get to the same '''Conditional Formatting Rules''' form: 

::(1) via the '''Task Bar''' tab or 

::(2) via the '''Milestones''' tab.  

:Complete details on how to use '''conditional formatting''' may be found at [[Conditional Formatting for Version 6.0 (Portal) | Conditional Formatting (Portal)]] <!--11.0.1-60-->.

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==Related Links to Task Bar Decorations==

[[Labeling Task/Milestone Dates  for Version 6.0 (OnePager Express) | Labeling Task/Milestone Dates  for for OnePager Express]] <!--10.2.1-60-->

[[Percent complete for Version 6.0 (OnePager Express) | Percent complete for OnePager Express]] <!--10.4.1-60-->

[[Baselines for Version 6.0 (OnePager Express) | Baselines for OnePager Express]] <!--10.6.1-60-->

[[Critical path for OnePager (OnePager Express) | Critical path for OnePager Express]]

[[Deadlines for Version 6.0 (OnePager Express) | Deadlines for OnePager Express]] <!--10.10.1-60-->

[[Endpoints for Version 6.0 (OnePager Express) | Endpoints for OnePager Express]] <!--10.12.1-60-->

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[[Category:Version 6.0]]
[[Category:Editing a Project View]]
[[Category:Task/Milestone Editing]]
[[Category:Task/Milestone Decorations]]
[[Category:Percent Complete]]
[[Category:Critical Path]]
[[Category:Baselines]]
[[Category:Labels]]
[[Category:Deadlines]]
[[Category:Endpoints]]
[[Category:Conditional Formatting]]
[[Category:Color Palettes]]
[[Category:Ribbon]]
[[Category:Snapshots]]
[[Category:Project Views]]
[[Category:Templates]]
[[Category:Project-View Properties Form]]
[[Category:OnePager Express]]