Task Bars
On the Task Bars tab of the Gantt Chart form, set the display colour of the tasks, groups and dependencies in the Gantt Chart. The option to colour-code the tasks is provided.
You can also select a colour for milestones. Milestones are tasks that have no duration So they mark an event, rather than a task. They appear as a diamond shape in the Gantt Chart.
Colour Coding
Colour field
Specify the name of a field which contains the values that will be used to colour-code the display. If you are mapping Colour field values to a Colour Set, the values in the Colour field must be valid RGB, HTML Hex, Hex, or Integer colour definitions.
| Format | Example | |
|---|---|---|
| RGB | 89,169,215 | RGB ordered |
| HTML Hex | #59A9D7 | BGR ordered |
| Hex | 0x59a9d7 | BGR ordered |
| Int | 5876183 | BGR ordered: RED + (GREEN*256) + (BLUE*65536) |
You can choose to select colour values directly from the Colour field without selecting a Colour set. In this case, you can also select a formatted Colour field.
You can view and edit the RGB values assigned to the Colour field in the Property Window. Click on the ellipsis to open the Colour picker:
Colour set
Specify the name of a field which contains the values that will be used with a Colour set to colour-code the display.
Show bar labels
Select this option to display a label for each task in the Gantt Chart and set the font characteristics of the label text.
Label field
Double-click (or click on the Select icon) to select the name of the field from which the Label values will be displayed for each task.
Font properties
Click the Font Properties button to set the font characteristics of the label text.
