Group Tasks

[slickity]

Is there some equivalent of object grouping for tasks in Project 2000?

I have a series of tasks, each with the sub-task "Design", which is not the exact same sub-task, but rather a different instance of the same tasks that may occur at a different time and have a different duration. But, I may want to make some sweeping change to all the instances of Design, for example changing all their constraint types from "As Soon As Possible" to "As Late As Possible."

As far as I know, the only way to do this is to Ctrl-select them all and change them like that, and with Project, there is a limit to the number of items you can simultaneously select like that.

So, if I could add them to some group whereby I can change the properties of the whole group, that would be awesome.

Thanks.

 

[slickity]

It might also work if I could filter the views like the AutoFilter in Excel, so I can choose to only view tasks with a certain name.

 

[slickity]

Oops, excuse my laziness. I just found the Filter and Group tools under Project on the menu bar. Should have looked around a bit more before posting. If a mod wants to delete this thread, feel free to now. I should be able to take it from here.

 

[PDQBach]

If they all have the same name:

1. Tools | Options View-tab and clear the boxes named "Show summary tasks" and, optionally, "Indent Name".

2. On the Standard toolbar, click on the "autofilter" button (it looks like a funnel) so that you see a small black triangle at the top of each column.

3. Click on the triangle at the top of the Task Name column. Scroll down until you see "Design" and click on it.

(If you can't easily pick out the tasks this way then you'll have to do some manual labour: insert a Flag column and set it to yes for just the tasks you want to process and then use the autofilter functionality to pick out just the "yes" flags.)

Now you are seeing only the tasks you want to see. Make the changes.

To restore the original display:

4. Click on the "autofilter" button to remove the small black triangles.

5. Tools | Options and select (put a check mark in) the buttons you cleared in step 1.