Resource bars color coded

dingpud · Sep 26, 2008

Is there anyway that I can get a bar color to be directly associated with the resource that is tasked to that specific task?

Ex.
All of the Gannt chart bars that have Bob associated with it are blue.
All those with Kim are red, Barry is brown etc.

I know I can go in manually and do this, but is there anyway to have Project do it automatically?

Thanks,

tygerdawg · Sep 26, 2008

yes, but unfortunately I can't remember the method. I CAN tell you that I googled this once, and found a slick little tutorial of how to do it somewhere on the web. It involved some simple IF-THEN programming using custom properties & variables. Not bad at all, once I understood what to do.

Dig a little bit, you'll find it.

TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering

http://www.bluetechnik.com

dingpud · Sep 29, 2008

OK, I got it to work.

I referenced the following:

http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/887188.htm

and

http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Thanks,

(The long and short of it was to create Flags and make IFF formulas in them which corresponded to colored bars.)

jblack34 · Oct 11, 2008

Here is a similar post with screenshots:

http://www.pmconnection.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24

J Black

http://www.pmconnection.com

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