Naming

Hi There,

I want to have the name of the parent cell displayed alongside the
gantt bars of the children cells.

If I had a task called, lets say, 'Chocolate Production' which
containned a number of sub-tasks such as 'grind cocoa beans', I would
want the have 'Chocolate Production' displayed next to all the
subtasks on the Gantt.

Can anybody help? Does anybody know what I am on about?

Thanks

John
Thu Feb 22 10:10:06 CST 2007

In article <1172137460.144887.290260@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"project newby" <duncanelliot@breathe.com> wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I want to have the name of the parent cell displayed alongside the
> gantt bars of the children cells.
>
> If I had a task called, lets say, 'Chocolate Production' which
> containned a number of sub-tasks such as 'grind cocoa beans', I would
> want the have 'Chocolate Production' displayed next to all the
> subtasks on the Gantt.
>
> Can anybody help? Does anybody know what I am on about?
>
> Thanks

project newby,
First of all, I think your Gantt display is going to get pretty crowded,
which might tend to make it unreadable. However, what you need to do is
to set up a spare field and then copy the summary line name to that
spare field for all subtasks. Then under Format/Bar Styles, set the text
for the normal Gantt bar to display the spare field on the left or right.

John
Project MVP