Showing Weekends and Weekdays in charts

Hi Terry,

I don’t know about formating bar charts so that weekend periods are shown in shaded form; but i know you can format your bar chart to "neck" holidays and weekends. Go to Format=>Bars and check box for holidays and weekends.#
Cheers.

hello terry in continuation of what Ifeanyi said in the Bar section tick the Neck Column
regards
deb

Thanks Deb. i forgot to mention that..

Thanks for your replies guys.

Call me old fashioned, but I would prefer to see the weekend periods shaded out as they are in Microsoft Project.

Necking is ok, but it doesn’t give enough sense of weeks and weekends for me. Anyone else have any ideas ?

I have used the INSERT OBJECT/SHADED CURTAIN on my schedules to indicate the cold-weather periods. I suppose you could use this to show the weekend periods as well, but if your schedule is over a long period of time this would be a bit of a PITA to set up.

Brilliant, thanks Eliza ! There’s only 52 weeks in a year so it won’t take long :)

Tried to work out what PITA stands for though :)

Hi Terry / Liz,

What is PITA?

Regards,

Ashraf

Hmm, just wondering how you can change the colour of the shaded curtain please ? Anynone ?

Thanks

Terry

Terry,
Changes to holidays and exceptions in a base calendar affect all resource calendars derived from it. If your resource calendar uses its base calendars standard work week, changses to that standard work week also affect the resource calendar. Try This:
Data-Resources. This opens Resource dialogue box
Click calendars to open project calendar box; Choose resource to edit resource calendar; Select the resource you want to define a calendar. right click the base calendar column to choose a different base calendar column; Click standard to open the standard daily info box for daily projects etc. Then specify whether to base the resource calendar’s work week on it’s base calendars standard work week; Modify resources holiday or other expected nonwork periods not already part of the base calendar. Your problem is solved.

PITA = Pain In The A** (don’t want to be vulgar!)

I don’t know if you can change the color of the shaded curtain, have never tried. If I figure anything out I will let you know.

You know Eliza, I worked it out already after I was last online.

Chukwudi, I understand about different Calendars, my question was to do with the graphical visualisation of weekdays and weekends. Eliza’s solution solves the problem of this, but my next question is how to change the colours and density of the shading etc..

Hi Terry,

Why not try Insert / Object / Primevera Draw.

You can make a rectangle and select the few shades which are available.

Regards,

Ashraf