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| − | OnePager Pro and Express can create Gantt charts or Timeline layout charts by '''collecting''' tasks from your '''source plans''' and placing them into '''rows''' in your OnePager Pro or Express charts. A Gantt chart, in this context, is organized such that each row contains only one task. A Timeline layout, on the other hand, can have multiple tasks in a single row, based upon a field that you specify from your '''source plan'''. In a timeline layout, tasks that share the same value for a given field will automatically appear together in the same row.
| + | This article is focused on using the ''' Column Splitting''' feature with OnePager Bundle '''Standalone''' and '''imported''' Asana '''source plans'''. |
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| − | ===Gantt Chart and Timeline Layout Chart Examples=== | + | ==About Splitting and Parsing Fields== |
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| − | The Gantt chart and Timeline layout chart shown below are examples of each chart layout organization: | + | The OnePager '''column splitting''' feature allows you to '''duplicate task bars''' when a task in your Asana '''source plan''' is assigned to '''multiple resources''' (or anything else). Because assignments from Asana often are '''comma-delimited''', this feature enables OnePager to '''parse the comma-delimited list''' and '''create a unique task bar''' for each instance in the '''comma-separated''' list. |
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| − | <center>'''Gantt Chart'''</center>
| + | ===Split Resource Names Example=== |
| − | <center>[[File:P70-12_0_1-(1)-06092020.png]]</center>
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| − | The visual characteristic of the Gantt chart above is that all tasks are placed in their own individual '''row'''.
| + | Say you want to use '''color-codes''' on task bars/milestone symbols based upon your Asana '''source plan’s Assigned to''' column as shown below: |
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| − | <center>'''Timeline Layout Chart'''</center>
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| − | The Timeline layout chart above has all task bars and milestone symbols associated with the same Project organized into a single '''row '''in the chart. These task bars and milestone symbols are all associated with the same field value (in this case '''Project '''name). The arrangement shown above is sometimes called a '''ribbon'''.
| + | Some of the entries in the '''Assigned to''' column consist of multiple, '''comma-separated''' items and some tasks only used one '''resource'''. Without the '''column splitting''' feature, a chart '''created''' from these data and assigned task bar/milestone symbol '''colors''' based upon the '''Assigned to''' column looks like this: |
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| − | ===Gantt Chart Versus Timeline Layout Chart Selection===
| + | <center>[[File:P72-24_5_3-72-(5)-11272023.png]]</center> |
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| − | Both chart layout organizations have uses in supporting schedule conversations and the controls and examples provided in this article for '''managing rows''' are here to help you implement your choices. Typically, when building a Microsoft Project or Excel '''source plan''' you have a mental picture of how the '''source plan '''should look when presented visually. Accordingly, we find that users structure their '''source plans''' initially with the '''intent''' of creating '''either''' a Gantt chart '''or''' a Timeline Layout chart. OnePager Pro and Express version 7.0 are structured to support the '''creation''', '''formatting''', and '''editing''' of both the Gantt charts and Timeline Layout charts.
| + | OnePager, in this case, treats the '''entire string''' as an individual '''Assigned to''' value. To provide more flexibility in displaying task bars that have '''multiple resources''' assigned, OnePager supports the concept of a '''column splitting'''. This feature recognizes '''comma-separated''' values in a '''designated column''' and '''creates a separate task bar''' for each of the '''comma-separated''' values. |
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| − | This series of articles assumes that the reader is interested in '''creating''', '''formatting''', and '''editing''' either a Gantt chart or Timeline Layout chart for a specific purpose and can consult the appropriate sub-section of this article when considering the controls available in the '''Chart Properties''' form’s '''Rows/Swimlanes '''tab’s '''Rows''' control group.
| + | ===Enabling Splitting=== |
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| − | ==Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel Source Plans==
| + | To use this feature requires turning '''ON''' the feature in the Asana '''Template Properties''' form you intend to use to make the chart. The setting must be turned '''ON''' before the chart is created so launch OnePager Bundle from the '''desktop icon''', click the '''NEW''' button on the '''OnePager Bundle Start''' form to access the '''OnePager choices''' form, '''select''' your Asana '''source plan''', and type in the chart's '''title''' as shown here: |
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| − | The '''Chart Properties '''form’s '''Rows/Swimlanes''' tab are essentially the same for OnePager Pro version 7.0 and OnePager Express version 7.0. The controls described in this article and the remainder in the series applies to both Microsoft Project and Excel '''source plans imported '''into OnePager Pro and Excel, respectively. Where there are differences between Microsoft Project and Excel, there is a separate article covering specifically the requirements for using the features with Microsoft Excel.
| + | <center>[[File:P72-24_5_3-72-(2A)-11022023.png]]</center> |
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| − | ==Creating Gantt Charts==
| + | When you click the '''Next>''' button at the bottom of the form, OnePager accesses the second page of the '''OnePager choices''' form shown below: |
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| − | In this and following sub-sections, it is assumed that you have '''created''' or are '''using''' a distributed '''Template Properties''' form that supports either the Gantt chart or Timeline layout chart. Accordingly, this article and the others articles that make up this series deals with '''creating''' and '''editing''' charts with the assumption that an appropriate '''Template Properties''' form is selected as the starting point. The Gantt chart is the most typical task bar/milestone symbol organization used in general practice.
| + | <center>[[File:P72-24_5_3-72-(2AA)-11022023.png]]</center> |
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| − | The '''Chart Properties '''form’s '''Rows/Swimlanes '''tab is shown below with the '''Rows''' control group highlighted for the discussion that follows:
| + | Clicking the '''Edit current template''' button accesses the current '''Template Properties''' form. Navigate to the '''Field Mappings''' tab on the form, check the '''Enable splitting on:''' checkbox to '''ON''' and (in this example) select the '''Assigned To''' column from the dropdown list provided. The results are shown here: |
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| − | In the illustration above, the '''Gantt chart (one task per row)''' radio button is selected indicating that the chart is intended to be a Gantt chart with one task bar/milestone symbol per '''row'''. With this decision made, the next step is to determine how '''imported source plan''' tasks/milestones and their '''rows''' are '''sorted''' in the chart.
| + | Click the '''Save and use''' button to complete the process and close the current '''Template Properties''' form returning you to the second page of the '''OnePager choices''' form show above. |
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| + | ===Split Resources in the Chart=== |
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| + | Clicking the '''Create new chart''' button completes the process and creates the chart with the '''column splitting''' feature in use. The chart with '''splitting''' looks like this: |
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| − | :2) '''Sort on field:''' where you have the further option to select the '''source plan field''' to control the '''sorting of rows''' and controls to determine which direction (lowest to highest or highest to lowest) the '''sort on rows''' is done. | + | <center>[[File:P72-24_5_3-72-(2)-11022023.png]]</center> |
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| − | The '''Row Border Formatting…''' button is discussed in this article at this link: [[Collecting, Formatting, and Sorting Task/Milestones into Rows for Version 7.0#Row Border Formatting | Row Border Formatting]] <!--12.01.1-70--> | + | In the chart with '''column splitting''' shown above, there are now several more task bars in the '''Chart Editor''' than there were before. The task bar for '''Plate Movement''' is now '''split into two (2) separate task bars''', one for each of the '''two resources assigned'''. The task bar for '''Centrifugal Barrier''' is now '''split into three (3) separate task bars''', one for each of the '''three resources''' that were assigned to this task in the Asana '''source plan'''. Each of the '''resources''' has a unique '''color''' assigned. Each of the '''resources''' appears by itself in the '''Legend'''. The '''Legend title''' shows the '''column name''' that is used for '''splitting the columns'''. |
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| − | ===Sort Rows Like Project===
| + | With this feature, you can use '''column splitting''' just like any other column by using the dropdowns in the '''Template Properties''' form or '''Chart Properties''' form to assign '''colors, highlight task bars and milestone symbols, and to define and label rows and swimlanes'''. |
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| − | Typically, Microsoft Project '''source plans '''are organized by ascending task/milestone '''start dates'''.
| + | ==Splitting Resources and Task Links== |
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| − | :1) Microsoft Project provides an '''ID field''' where the '''source plan '''tasks are numbered sequentially from the top of the Microsoft Project grid to the bottom. OnePager Pro keys on the '''ID field''' for '''sorting rows like Project'''.
| + | When task bars with '''Data-Driven''' or manual '''Task Links''' are '''split''', the '''Task Links''' ('''Data-Driven''' and manual) are '''not shown'''. Further, the '''Task Links''' that are now '''hidden''' and '''do not''' have entries in the '''Where are My Links?''' form. |
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| − | :2) Microsoft Excel does not provide a corresponding internal sequence field as described for Microsoft Project. Our recommendation is that for Microsoft Excel '''source plans''' that you provide such a field which can be used for this purpose. OnePager Express looks for such a field which is typically called '''Task ID''', but any name suffices.
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| − | '''Sorting rows like Project''' takes place within the entire chart when there are '''no swimlane levels''' defined. '''Sorting rows like Excel''' where a '''sequence field''' is not found or defined results in the chart being sorted from the '''source plan’s''' top '''row '''to the bottom '''row'''.
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| − | However, when '''multiple swimlane levels''' are present in the chart, the '''Sort rows like Project''' is performed within the '''lowest swimlane level '''defined even if these '''multiple swimlane levels''' are '''hidden'''. In this respect, the '''multiple swimlane levels''' defined in the chart dictate the chart’s overall visual organization which can be controlled in the '''Swimlanes''' control group of the '''Chart Properties '''form’s '''Rows/Swimlanes '''tab.
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| − | The organization of the chart in terms of '''sorting rows''' is more visible when the '''Sort on field: '''option is used as discussed next.
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| − | ===Sort Rows Like Project – Basic Example===
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| − | The most basic Gantt chart with no '''text columns''' and no '''swimlanes''' looks like this:
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| − | The chart above provides the most basic project information by displaying the '''task bar name labels''' and the '''time axis''' so that '''task bar start/finish dates''' can be seen. Adding '''swimlanes '''and informative '''text columns '''can enhance the information content of the chart and help focus an audience’s attention to the specific issues of the schedule presentation.
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| − | For more information on '''Managing Swimlane Levels''', please see the article at: [[Creating, Formatting, and Sorting Swimlane Levels for Version 7.0 | Creating, Formatting, and Sorting Swimlane Levels]] <!--12.02.1-70-->
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| − | For more information on '''Managing Text Columns''', please see the article at: [[Creating and Formatting Text Columns for Version 7.0 | Creating and Formatting Text Columns]] <!--12.03.1-70-->
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| − | ===Sort on Field:===
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| − | When the '''Sort on field:''' radio button is clicked, the window below the radio button and the two directional buttons are '''enabled'''. The '''default '''setting for Microsoft Project '''source plans''' is the '''ID field'''.
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| − | For Microsoft Excel '''source plans''', OnePager Express attempts to find a '''source plan field''' in the Microsoft Excel file that is a numeric sequential file.
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| − | :1) Accordingly, we recommend to OnePager Express users that you add a sequential '''numeric field''' to your Microsoft Excel '''source plans '''specifically for this purpose.
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| − | :2) Users typically add a numeric field called '''Task ID''' and populate it in their Microsoft Excel '''source plans''' sequentially.
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| − | When the '''Sort on field''' radio button is clicked, the '''enabled '''sub-control groups looks like this with the window’s dropdown selected:
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| − | The dropdown list shown above is divided into two parts with the '''fields''' above the '''dotted line''' being those Microsoft Project '''source plan fields''' specifically '''imported '''into OnePager Pro because these '''fields '''are mentioned as settings in the '''Chart Properties''' form. Below the '''dotted line''', you have the option to scroll down and select any other of the remaining '''source plan fields''' to which OnePager has access.
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| − | To the immediate right of the dropdown window are two directional buttons that specify the direction of the '''Sort on field:''' operation: (1) '''Top to Bottom (Lowest to Highest) – A to Z''' or (2) '''Bottom to Top (Highest to Lowest) – Z to A''' as shown below:
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| − | The '''default '''setting is '''Top to Bottom (Lowest to Highest) – A to Z'''. '''Numeric''', '''date''', and '''Boolean''' Microsoft Project '''source plan fields''' are processed in a similar way as '''alphabetical fields'''. As discussed above, the '''Sort on field: '''option is conditional on the definition of '''one or more multiple swimlane levels''' in the chart. '''Sorting of rows''' is done when '''multiple swimlane levels''' are present at the '''lowest swimlane level'''. That is, '''sorting of rows''' is performed within the '''lowest swimlane level''' defined for the chart.
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| − | ===Sort On Field: - Examples===
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| − | ====Example 1====
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| − | As a first example, there are no '''swimlane levels''' in the chart below with the '''three''' '''text columns '''showing:
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| − | Since there are no '''swimlane levels''' defined, all task bars/milestone symbols are considered in total as the basis of the '''Sort on field: '''option using the '''source plan’s ID field''' sorted from lowest to highest.
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| − | ====Example 2====
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| − | As a second example, we can reverse the '''sort order''' by clicking on the right-most directional button '''(Bottom to Top – Highest to Lowest)'''. When this is done, the chart looks like this after the sort is complete:
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| − | ====Example 3====
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| − | For a third example, suppose we add a '''swimlane level''' and leave the third '''text column – ID''' to compare with previous '''sort operations'''. When we add the '''Level 1 summary name '''as the '''swimlane''', '''Sort rows on field: ID in Ascending Order (Lowest to Highest)''', and make sure that the '''sort''' for the '''Level 1 summary name swimlane''' is '''Sort swimlanes like Project''' the result is shown here:
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| − | The illustration above shows that '''rows are sorted within each swimlane''' in '''ascending order''' by the '''source plan’s ID field'''. To better reinforces how '''row order''' is done within each '''swimlane''', reversing the '''order for row sorting by ID field''' to '''descending order (highest to lowest)''' is shown in the last example.
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| − | For the last example, we can reverse the '''sort direction for the rows''' to '''descending order (highest to lowest)''', and with all other settings remaining the same, the chart looks like this:
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| − | ====Summary for Sort on Field:====
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| − | Rows are always '''ordered''' within the '''swimlanes''', so when the number of '''swimlane levels '''or '''number of swimlanes changes''', expect to see changes in the '''row ordering'''. Adding '''swimlanes or swimlane levels''' to a chart in the context of '''row sorting''' has a tendency to complicate this discussion significantly.
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| − | Timeline layout charts are useful where the purpose is to track progress from milestone to milestone for many activities that are homogeneous and underway simultaneously. For example, the two illustrations below are examples of Timeline layout charts where the first organizes '''source plan''' tasks into projects and the second organizes multiple projects (shown as task bars) into programs:
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| − | ===Multi-Project Timeline Layout Chart Example===
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| − | ===Multi-Program Timeline Layout Chart Example===
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| − | The Multi-Project Timeline layout chart and Multi-Program Timeline layout chart above, consist of OnePager task bars arranged horizontally in a '''ribbon-like''' sequence for each of the chart '''rows''' shown.
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| − | OnePager Pro and Express support the Timeline layout chart format with a distributed '''Template Properties''' forms called '''Birds on a Wire Chart''' that can be used as a reference for creating your own tailored '''Template Properties '''form for this format.
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| − | ===Template Properties Form Settings for Timeline Layout Chart===
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| − | What distinguishes Timeline layout charts from Gantt charts in OnePager is that the radio button for '''Timeline (multiple task per row) '''is selected in the '''Rows/Swimlanes''' tab of the '''Template Properties''' form shown below
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| − | The '''Align task on''' window is provided as a dropdown list of '''source plan field names''' from which you can select the '''source plans '''task’s '''property or variable''' upon which OnePager creates the '''rows''' with the multiple task bars that appear in the Timeline layout chart.
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| − | The Timeline layout chart is best applied to situations where '''source plan '''tasks do not overlap with respect to '''start/finish dates''' allowing OnePager to display them in the Timeline layout chart sequentially from left to right in their assigned '''rows'''.
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| − | Where '''source plan '''tasks have '''start/finish dates''' that result in OnePager rendering them as '''overlapping''' in their assigned '''rows''', you can remedy this by checking the '''Stagger overlapping tasks''' checkbox '''ON'''.
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| − | As mentioned earlier, a Timeline layout chart has a specific purpose; one of which is to show milestone symbols on a timeline reflecting a chart being discussed at a high level. The Microsoft Project '''source plan''' shown below shows task bars at the '''Level 1 summary name '''level and milestone symbols at the level below:
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| − | Using a “Birds on a Wire” configured '''Template Properties '''form such as the one shown above with the '''Timeline '''radio button clicked in the '''Rows/Swimlanes '''tab’s '''Rows''' control group, we create the Timeline layout chart shown here:
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| − | In the above Timeline layout chart, milestone symbols are organized by Project which is the '''source plans Level 1 summary name field''' and all milestone symbols are on individual '''rows''' for each '''Level 1 summary name field value'''. We can bring in the '''source plan’s summary tasks''' by modifying the '''source plan '''by changing all their '''Flag20 '''entries to '''Yes '''and build a '''replacement '''Timeline layout chart that looks like this:
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| − | The above illustration does, indeed, place all task bars and milestone symbols in the same '''row''' but because of the '''color '''selection''' '''and the placement of the '''task bar name labels''' for the milestone symbols some '''task bar name labels '''for milestone symbols are '''hidden'''. This situation can be addressed by clicking the '''Stagger overlapping tasks''' checkbox to '''ON''' in the '''Chart Properties '''form’s '''Rows/Swimlanes '''tab’s '''Rows '''control group as shown here:
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| − | Clicking the '''Stagger overlapping tasks''' checkbox to '''ON''' changes the Timeline layout chart to look like this:
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| − | Of course, there is some '''editing''' that can be done to place the milestone symbols in the above chart back over the summary task bars.
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| − | At this point it would be a simple matter to uncheck the '''Stagger overlapping task '''checkbox to '''OFF''' to put all the milestone symbols back into the same '''row''' as the summary task bars.
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| − | If you glance back to that illustration above, you see that many of the milestone symbols are '''hidden behind''' the task bars. This is because milestone symbol’s '''Z-ordering on the screen''' and in any '''media output '''does not let them show in the '''graph.''' Changing the '''Z-ordering''' of the milestone symbols by '''bringing them to the front''' remedies this situation. To accomplish this, select all milestone symbols with the '''CTL+Left-Click '''technique, right-click on one of these selected milestone symbols to access the '''task bars '''right-click '''context menu''', and click the '''Order '''command and its '''Bring to front''' sub-command as shown here:
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| − | At the completion of the above operation, go back to the '''Chart Properties '''form’s '''Rows/Swimlanes''' tab’s '''Rows''' control group and uncheck the '''Stagger overlapping task '''checkbox '''OFF'''. After a few '''editing '''steps to take care of the '''task bar name label collisions''', the results are shown below:
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| − | ====Links to Other Information on Timeline Layout Charts====
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| − | For more information on '''Timeline Layout Charts''', please use the links below:
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| − | :* [https://www.onepager.com/support/faqs/faq-115-timeline-layout--lining-up-multiple-tasks-in-one-row.html Timeline Layout - Lining Up Multiple Tasks in One Row]
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| − | :* [https://www.onepager.com/howto/project-timeline.html How to: Build a Project Timeline from Microsoft Project Using OnePager Pro]]
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| − | :* [https://www.onepager.com/howto/swimlane_project_timelines.html How to: Make a Timeline with Swimlanes Using Data from Microsoft Project]
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| − | :* [https://youtu.be/rp2KVyndCNQ YouTube Video: Building a Project Timeline with Swimlanes]
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| − | The third sub-control group found in the '''Rows''' control group of the '''Rows/Swimlanes '''tab of the '''Chart Properties''' form is the '''Row Border Formatting… '''button. Clicking the '''Row Border Formatting… '''button accesses the '''Row Formatting '''form shown below:
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| − | '''Row formatting''' consists only of '''formatting borders for rows''' globally in the chart. In order for '''row borders '''to show in the chart and '''graph''', the '''Show Row Borders''' checkbox must be checked''' ON'''. When the '''Show Row Borders '''checkbox is checked '''ON''', the '''Color''', '''Width''', and '''Dash:''' controls are '''enabled'''. Click the '''Color''' dropdown button accesses the standard '''Color Chooser '''form where you can select the '''line color''' for the '''row border'''. The '''Width dial control''' lets you set the '''width '''of the '''row border’s '''line''' '''in terms of the selected '''standard measure (centimeters or inches)'''. Finally, the '''Dash: '''dropdown has five (5) line '''dash types''' to select from including '''Solid''', '''Dot''', '''Dash''', '''Dash dot''', and '''Dash dot dot'''.
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| | + | | [[Linking Task and Milestones Using Manual and Data-Driven Task Links for Version 7.2 | Linking Task and Milestone Using Manual and Data-Driven Task Links (Portal)]] 19.0.1-72 |
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| | + | | [[Editing with the Chart Properties form for Version 7.2 (Portal) | Editing with the Chart Properties form (Portal)]] 21.0.1-72 |
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| | + | | [[Splitting and Parsing Columns for Primavera P6 Source Plans in OnePager Version 7.2 | Splitting and Parsing Columns for Primavera P6 Source Plans in OnePager]] 24.5.2-72 |
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| | + | | [[Splitting and Parsing Columns for Project for the Web Source Plans for Version 7.2 | Splitting and Parsing Columns for Project for the Web Source Plans]] 24.5.5-72 |
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| | + | | [[Splitting and Parsing Columns for Planisware Enterprise Source Plans for Version 7.2 | Splitting and Parsing Columns for Planisware Enterprise Source Plans]] 24.5.7-72 |
| | + | | [[Splitting and Parsing Columns for Wrike in OnePager Version 7.2 | Splitting and Parsing Columns for Wrike in OnePager]] 24.5.11-72 |
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| − | [[Creating and Formatting Text Columns for Version 7.0 | Creating and Formatting Text Columns]] <!--12.03.1-70-->
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