MS Project 2003 - free days are not printed

[mvictd]

Dear,

My question is about MS Project 2003.

When I open the project planning I am working on now I can see that the free time is in grey in the weekend but when I make a print example on my screen or print it is not printed. I looked for all options but I can't find anything.

I just tried:
- all kind of options in MS Project
- tried the document on another machine
- make a new project, then the weekends are shown on the prints

Does anyone what can be wrong?

Kind regards,

Martin

 

[PDQBach]

If you have chosen a timescale where the Bottom Tier tab is set to weeks then there are no weekend days to display so the grey vertical bars are not displayed (and, therefore, are not printed).

If you have chosen a timescale where the Bottom Tier tab is set to weeks and you have flagged a weekday as a non-working day (perhaps it is a statutory holiday) then it will not be displayed.

To confirm this, I created a full week of non-working time, and created a holiday on the Wednesday of a different week; I set the Bottom Tier of the Timescale to weeks; I created a task that spanned the non-working week and the statutory holiday.[ul][li]The grey bar showed for the non-working week[/li]
[li]The grey bar did not appear for the week where there was a single non-working day.[/li][/ul]

The vertical grey bar was shown on the screen for the non-working week and the grey bar was shown on a printed report.

Then I changed it so that the Bottom Tier units was still set to Weeks but the Count was changed to 2. This time the vertical grey bar was not displayed.

In summary, you will only see a grey vertical bar if the Bottom Tier field "Units" combined with the field "Count" are set to a unit that is shorter than the period for a non-working time.

So, if you have a block of 3 consecutive non-working days
if the Bottom Tier is set to Days and 2
then you will see the vertical bar

but
if the Bottom Tier is set to Days and 3
then you will not see the vertical bar

 

[mvictd]

Thank you very much for your quick respons!

I checked the actions you adviced but it did not solve the problem.

The upper time scale is in weeks with count 1.
The bottom time scale is in days with count 1.
Free time is in the weekends (Saturday and Sunday).
The weekends are fine on the screen and are in grey like I want.
But in the example on the screen and on the print they are white.
When I make a new document it is good.

I really got no idea.

Kind regards,


Martin

 

[PDQBach]

Hmm ... in the file where it is not working, try this:

View > Gantt
Format > Timescale...

In the Timescale popup:
Click on the tab "Non-working time"
Draw: behind task bars
Color: silver
Pattern: choose the one beneath the black bar
Calendar: choose the one labelled xxxx (Project Calendar) [xxx can be anything]

 

[mvictd]

Thank you again!

I'm sorry, it didn't work.

Kind regards,

Martin

 

[PDQBach]

Could you either attach the file to a message here or email it to me pdqbach4100 at H0TMA1L com.