(P5) Print-out bar chart w/nonworking interval necking

Hello Abeer,

The reason why it does not appear the bar necking during preview it is because, your page set up is maybe 100% for scaling. Try to adjust or minimize to 80 or 75% normal size. Likewise, try to check your Timescale under option Tab.

Since suspend date cannot be applied without actual start of a certain activity. All you have to do is to assign a special calendar to this activity. Let say, Sept. 20 till Sept. 30 with expected suspend on Sep. 24 and will resume on Sep. 27. Create a new calendar specifying Sept. 24 to Sept. 26 as nonwork.

HTH.

Arnold

Hello Arnold,

Thanks for your reply
Kindly note that, at P5 :
There are two options to select bar necking:
1-calendar nonworking time (weekly holidays like Fridays)
2-activity nonworking intervals (suspended period)

• When I chose #1; the neck appears clearly at primavera window & print-out
• When I chose #2; the neck appears clearly at primavera window and it is not appear at print-out (that is what I need to print-out).
• When I chose #1 + 2; the neck appears clearly at primavera window and print-out.



Regards,
Abeer Taher

Hello Abeer,

In P6, Bar Settings tab --> Bar Necking Settings, these two options are same with P5.

Did you mark both boxes in this option? I tried with me it is working. May be you miss something.

Keep on trying.

Arnold

Hello Arnold,

Yes I marked both boxes; weekly holidays & suspended period and both of them appeared but I don’t need holidays necking because it confuses us.

And when I marked suspended period only the necking appears in primavera window and doesn’t appear in print-out I wonder why?

Regards,
Abeer Taher

Hi All,

I have the same predicament too. The neck bars doesn’t appear during print preview and printing is there any solution for this I am using P6. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Joel

Joel

The timescale has to be in a way (e.g. "week/day"), that P6 is able to show it.
As far as I remember there was a bug in P6.0 which was solved either by a patch or by 6.1. I’m using P6.2 - no problem

Regards
Dieter

I’m using P5, but it’s ok, what you need to do is adjust the timescale. otherwise can’t show what you want when you print it. you can have a test, just display 1 month bar. you will get it.