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Posted by SheetPlanner
Sep 19, 2018 at 03:17 PM
MadaboutDana,
One other item that may not be apparent to you given the current lack of a help file or training videos (we are working on both of these) is that in the inspector, you can specify under ‘Outline’ and option to ‘Carry Forward’ the Finish date. What this does is carry forward the finish date for incomplete items. So if something is due today and you don’t complete it, with this box checked it will carry it forward to tomorrow. You can also italicize the finish date for those rows that have been carried forward by clicking the ‘italicize’ option under ‘carry forward’ in the outline section of the inspector.
I wanted to let you know this in case that might effect how you use Sp and your thinking about Finish Date V Due date. As I stated previously we will still look at the option to change the default column field labels in a future version.
Thanks.
Peter
MadaboutDana wrote:
Some very nice revisions, Peter, and it’s a lot more stable than it was
>- I was on the point of sending you a whole list of things when you
>released B5 (already much better). But B6 is a big step forward again;
>the interface is much tidier, for one thing.
>
>One tiny anomaly in your labelling: you’ve got Start and Finish dates
>(which effectively determine what appears in the Timeline view); but
>Finish might be better as Due Date, and it would be superb if the
>timeline view could also display an Actual Date (i.e. the date on which
>you actually finished the task, whether before or after the Due Date).
>As it stands, the term “Finish Date” is a bit ambiguous (i.e. does it
>mean the due date, or the date on which the task was completed?). And
>for project tracking purposes, specifying actual dates means you could
>easily adjust your scheduling based on the data shown in the Timeline
>view - by far the most user-friendly way of doing that.
>
>Why not just adjust the Finish date, you’ll ask me? Well, that’s an
>option, of course, but less amenable to tracking project slippage, which
>can be a valuable datum in its own right.
>
>Just some passing thoughts. I’m still playing with B6, but so far very
>impressed. This plus an iOS version would be the Bees’ Knees of data
>management apps!
>
>Cheers,
>Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 20, 2018 at 03:55 PM
That’s interesting, especially the italicising bit. Thanks, Peter!