Tips & Tricks for February 2022

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How can I move a group of symbols about 2 months to the right all at the same time?

I am using Milestones Professional to build a chart for our management. The task bars I am inserting (which should be solid) have a white stripe through the middle of them. Here's a picture.

Custom Headers and Footers

I need to display custom header and footer information on all pages of my schedule. Is this possible?

What can affect Fill to Status Date?

I have the Symbols: Fill to Status Date and Bars: Fill to Status Date options toggled on. However, it is not working. What could be disabling this feature?

Dashed line for symbol

I want my symbol to look like this. Is it possible?

Remove all baseline or status symbols

I want to remove all of the baseline symbols and status symbols on my schedule. Is there an easy way to do this?

Show curves and bars in DataGraph

I need to create a data graph with both bars and lines on the same DataGraph area. It appears that DataGraphs can either be bar graphs or line graphs, but not a mix. Suggestions?

Show two date lines

Am I able show two date lines using Milestones Professional? For example, I want to show a status line ( i.e. Sept 8, 2017) and a date line that's in the future (i.e. Oct 1, 2018).

Delete a vertical link

Is there a way to delete or remove a vertical connection once it has been created?

Nothing in Start and End Date SmartColumns

I don't see anything in the Start and End Date SmartColumns. Any idea why?

Display the date line in back of symbols and bars

Is there a way to display the date line so it shows in back of symbols and bars instead of in front of them?

Invisible Symbol

How can I create a bar with no symbols on the ends?

Filter to remove tasks which are 100% complete from view

I would like to turn on a filter that would remove tasks that are 100% complete from the view. Is this possible?

Currency symbol

I have a problem with the currency symbol display in a column. We use the Euro, ˆ (symbol). I have correctly set the Control Panel > Regional Options for currency in EURO with the symbol. Milestone does not seems to acknowledge the change and therefore I remain with the $ (US dollar Symbol) on each schedule. Is there a way to overcome the problem?

Turn off collapse/expand indicators

I would like to turn off the red triangles which appear in my first column to the left of the schedule area. How can I do this?Creating vertical connectors in Continuous View

Task summary bars

Now that my schedule is outlined, I would like to display summary bars. How do I turn these on?

Symbols with same text

I want to have the same text appear for a certain symbol (without having to add text to the symbol after each time I add the symbol to the schedule). How can I do this?

Symbol tags across multiple files

Is it possible to create a report that compares tags across multiple files? For multiple tasks that have the same name, would it be possible to consolidate those and compare the tags?Question:

Center vertical connection on a bar

I need to connect a symbol from one row to the center of a bar on another row. It looks like vertical connectors only go from symbol to symbol. Is there any way to show the connector hitting the middle of a bar?

HTML Publishing - need a master schedule with sub schedules

I'm generating HTML tiered hierarchy from a Master Schedule for 4 sub-schedules. Each sub-schedule has a summary bar, level 1, and some level 2 tasks. The main HTML output of Master shows only the Summary bars. Clicking a summary bar takes me to the sub-schedule. (Expected behavior) What I want is to control how many task levels are displayed on the HTML Master in the tiered output. For example, I would like HTML Master to show Summary and all Level 1 tasks, rather than just the Summary bar for each sub schedule. Is this setup possible?

Change the number of task rows per page

I need more rows on my schedule. How can I add more rows?

Clear all symbols within a date range

I have a horizontal year-by-year listing of events for the next five years. I want to get rid of events (symbols) I scheduled in one year without clearing the other years' symbols. How can I do this?

Show date and text on one line with two colors

I want to show the date on a symbol along with some text in a different color. It should show the date along with the stage of the project. For example: 3/20/2017 - (Stage 4). I'm trying to do this as a symbol note. It seems I can only change the color for each line of text though. Any ideas?

Can not select symbols on some rows

Some of the rows on my schedule have symbols which I can not select. I would like to change or delete the symbols but can not select them for deletion.

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