Hello, I'm trying to schedule not an actual works of one project, but production of 27 different color products. There is any possibility to create more than 20 flags? Or maybe can advise some other options?
Great video Computergaga, this is great for individual programs, are you able to expand (or perhaps add another video) to show how you can get the colours on the task bars to appear on the Resource Pool when multiple projects are loaded? When I load the resource Pool, the colours default back to the Project defaults rather than the colours set using Flags in the individual program. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
@@Computergaga this is just what i am after, thank you for making this however I am also using a resource pool and the flag is not working. Have you got any more tips on getting this to work when using a resource pool?
+Paul Pendyck Look at existing style Progress - that is rule for adding this horizontal line. For each flag you should add new Progress style. In the column "Show for... Tasks" add "Normal;FlagXXX", where XXX is your number of flag. And also copy all formattings from the original Progress rule. I didn't find how to tell in one row to use one rule for all flags.
Hi Gaga!! Thanks for this video! I have a question: I want to change style for individuals, not for a group. And I have a tasks which are assigned to multiple individuals (let's say to John and Mick). In this case flag will not be set to yes ever neither to John nor Mick. Do you know some conditional formatting (IE. it is enough to have at least John/Mick assigned to task and flag will be set to yes)? Thanks in advance!!!
Can you write an equation using OR? I want to be able to have the same color bar for all maintenance tasks, (mech, electrical, plumb, contractor, etc)?
Is there a way to show assign a style for a custom flag item (say Team 1) if it is also critical path? At the moment it is hard to see the critical path if resources are assigned as it wont go red.
If it will be "not Critical" than if task will be on the critical path, than it wount be higligted with different color! So with critical task it is not working. If i'm wrong - please explain!
So I've tried doing this with 6 different resources. The color doesn't change and I have experienced leveling issues? How to I turn leveling completely off? Manual leveling is checked, and I've tried clearing leveling? Any ideas, i'm not sure if I fix the leveling it will fix the issue?
+Lance Simmons If Manual Leveling is selected then leveling is off. Project will still warn you of overallocated resources. If you don't want this and don't need to work with resources hours then you could increase their Max Units or change them to Cost Resources.As for the colour not working I cannot tell from here what is wrong. Try the steps again there must be a small step missing or incorrect.
I think you would need to set it up in each project individually Henrik Wohlfahrt Moving forward you can set this up in a template so all future projects have consistent formatting.
After changing the colors for the bars, is there any way to reflect those colors in the parent bar so that I can see the colors when my tasks are rolled up? I have an example that I can't seem to paste here, but don't know how to recreate it.
Absolutely Brad. The parent bar is the Summary Task. Information such as location and resources can be assigned here and it can be formatted in the Bar Styles dialog in the same way as tasks. You will need to change both.
Hi folks, does this work for milestones by any chance? I can get it to work for task bars but milestones just remain black and won't change colour for me. I've setup a Flag column and marked various milestone rows as 'Yes' but they still don't change colour. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.
Yes you can use any criteria you want for auto changing the colour of bars. Just set the condition using the fields of MS Project. You could use the % complete and late start fields.
@@Computergaga ok. We have more than 20 persons(resources) that i want to assign to a flag with color bar. is there an other way to do, VBA or something?