Improve presentation of the project

In order to improve the project readability, do as follows:

  • Show / hide all subprojects

  • Number all activities and subprojects

  • Change order in the Gantt charts

  • Adjust timescale and calendar pane

  • Scale up/down display

  • Create subprojects

  • Add user view

Show / hide detail

In order to unfold all subprojects, select the menu item Start > Outline > Show/Hide detail.

Number all activities and subprojects

To each activity is automatically assigned a number during the activities creation After their linking or the schedule correction, the numbers may not correspond to the correct time series.

In order to rearrange the numbers of activities - no matter whether it is a unique number or WBS code - , select the menu item Project / Numbering. The activities will then be numbered automatically and unbrokenly.

Change order in the Gantt charts

In order to automatically change the order of all activities and subprojects, select the menu item Gantt chart format > Data > Sort an

select one of the following menu items or icon buttons:

  • by links

  • by start time

  • by code

  • by name

Note: Different views can have different menu items.

Manually change

In order to change automatically the order of a single marked activity or subproject

  1. select the menu item Start > Edit >… an.

  1. select one of the following menu items or icon buttons:

  • up

  • down

Adjust timescale and calendar pane

To display the project’s time, you can choose between minutes and quarters.

To adjust the timescale, you can select one of two options:

  • Click the slide bar with the left mouse button on the right pane of the status bar and move the slider to the preferred time-zoom setting.

  • Click on the actual time display e.g. Week 1:2 with the left mouse button on the right pane of the status bar. Then select other preferred representation from the list.

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Scale up/down display

When displaying the project, you can enlarge or reduce the project views.

Please click with the left mouse button in the right-hand area of the status bar on the current scale display, e.g. 120%. Then select select other preferred representation from the list.

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