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Frosty666
Apr 25, 2024Copper Contributor
Flags for Resources
I have more than 20 group resource on my project, so i need more flags to create a color for each. How can I add more flags?
Apr 27, 2024
Frosty666 --
From your description, it sounds like you want to use the Bar Styles dialog to automatically format Gantt bars for tasks assigned to different groups of resources. In this dialog, you have discovered a hard limit of no more than 20 custom Flag fields. Having Project Server or Project Online will not help you to overcome this problem because you CANNOT access custom enterprise Flag fields in the Bar Styles dialog. Sorry, but hope this helps.
From your description, it sounds like you want to use the Bar Styles dialog to automatically format Gantt bars for tasks assigned to different groups of resources. In this dialog, you have discovered a hard limit of no more than 20 custom Flag fields. Having Project Server or Project Online will not help you to overcome this problem because you CANNOT access custom enterprise Flag fields in the Bar Styles dialog. Sorry, but hope this helps.
John-project
Apr 27, 2024Silver Contributor
Dale,
Thanks for checking in. I know enterprise has the ability to create a ton of custom fields but I didn't know if that would help in this case. Apparently not. However, Frosty666 did contract me directly (via private message) and I have a method to get around the 20 Flag limit (see below). But, I'm trying to better understand his intent because keeping track of just a few different colors is hard enough much less 20 or even more as he think he needs/wants.
For reference, the way to get around the 20 Flag limit for setting up Gantt Bar styles is to instead customize each Gantt Bar. Manually that is a bear, but with a little VBA it's easy. However there is a formatting limit, I've run into it before but I don't recall the actual number.
John
Thanks for checking in. I know enterprise has the ability to create a ton of custom fields but I didn't know if that would help in this case. Apparently not. However, Frosty666 did contract me directly (via private message) and I have a method to get around the 20 Flag limit (see below). But, I'm trying to better understand his intent because keeping track of just a few different colors is hard enough much less 20 or even more as he think he needs/wants.
For reference, the way to get around the 20 Flag limit for setting up Gantt Bar styles is to instead customize each Gantt Bar. Manually that is a bear, but with a little VBA it's easy. However there is a formatting limit, I've run into it before but I don't recall the actual number.
John
- sfouteSep 25, 2024Copper ContributorJohn-Project or Frosty666 would you be able to give a little more details on the Gnattt bar styles?
- John-projectSep 25, 2024Silver Contributor
Sorry but your post is a little to general. What exactly do you want to do? And instead of tagging on to this thread, how about you start a new thread and explain what you want.
John