This section contains the following topics:
Define Highlight Font Settings
Edit CPM Symbol and Color Settings
Highlights are the fonts, colors, symbols, and patterns you can define for highlighting project data. Open Workbench offers a variety of highlights that you can use to make views and printed reports easier to read, analyze, and understand. You can define highlights for:
There is no limit to the number of highlights and highlight conditions you can create. You can create duplicate highlight conditions. Open Workbench applies highlights in the order listed in the Highlight Condition dialog box. When duplicate highlight conditions exist, the last condition entered is the one applied to the view.
While you can create and save many highlight files, you can apply only one (the default highlight file) to open projects. If you create multiple highlight files, you can specify which one to use by changing the default location and file name of the highlight file.
When inserting field names in the Type of Element column, insert them into a cell on a row that already displays a highlight format you want applied. You can insert the same field name multiple times into different rows in the Type of Element column. Each occurrence of a field name appears differently when you display a project, depending on which highlight condition applies.
To highlight project data, you must first select field names to highlight.
To create a highlight
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
Use the View Highlights dialog box to define or edit the view's highlights properties.
Tip: To apply new highlights to a project, set the path and file name of the new .RWH file on the Locations tab in the Options dialog box.
To define a view's highlight settings
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
Double-click item icons to display object names. Select a field or object to see the highlights associated with it.
Defines the element to which the highlight is applied.
A graphic display of the highlight applied to the data. Double-click to select font attributes including color, or if it is a Gantt field, to display the Gantt Symbol and Color Settings dialog box.
Defines the conditions in which the highlight is applied to the element. Double-click to define the conditions in the Highlight Condition dialog box.
The Save As dialog box opens.
The View Highlights dialog box closes.
Use the Highlight Conditions dialog box to specify the possible conditions for a field name and highlight combination.
To define the conditions for a view's element
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
The list expands to display available fields in each folder.
Your cursor moves to the corresponding Type of Element cell in the Conditions column.
The Highlight Condition dialog box opens.
Double-click item icons to display field names associated with the current view. Select a field to see the highlights associated with it. Drag field names to the Field column to begin creating or editing a view highlight.
Drag a field name to this column. This can be a different field from the element type.
Enter a value or select a value from a drop-down list.
Specify if the field name is equal or not equal to the value you select or enter in the Value column.
Select And or Or to add additional conditions in subsequent lines.
The Highlight Condition dialog box closes.
When you define highlight conditions, it is important to define the highlight's appearance. Format highlights when you want information displayed using specific fonts, styles, or colors, or when you want to assign a color to cells that display project data.
You can apply custom colors to fonts, Gantt symbols, and CPM highlights. If you use text-based field names in a highlight, you can choose how the fonts are displayed. To do this, use the Font dialog box. A Preview box displays to show you how the text will appear when the highlight applies.
To change the appearance of fonts in highlights
The Font dialog box appears.
The Color dialog box opens where you can add a custom color to the palette.
The View Highlights dialog box appears.
If you use Gantt field names in a highlight, you can choose how the Gantt bars are displayed. Use the Gantt Symbol and Color Settings dialog box to determine how bars, lines, column heading blocks, and other design objects appear in a Gantt chart view.
A Preview box displays to show you how the Gantt bar will appear when the highlight applies. When defining Gantt bar symbols and color settings, you can define them to match a highlight condition, and then override the settings with other symbols and color settings for the bar when a different condition is met.
To change Gantt symbol and color settings
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
The Gantt Symbol and Color Settings dialog box opens.
Click OK to save your changes.
Use the Font dialog box to set font and background attributes for a particular highlight.
To define the highlights font setting for a view's element
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
The Font dialog box opens.
Select the typeface to use.
Enter or select a font size. The default size is the same point size used for the Windows system font.
Select to display text in boldface. The default setting is off.
Select to display italic text. The default setting is off.
Select to underline text. The default setting is off.
Select to set the foreground (text) color of the highlight.
Select to use the default font color for the foreground (text) of the highlight. The default is the foreground color used for window text in your Windows desktop color scheme. To change your color scheme, see your Microsoft Windows User's Guide.
Select to set the background color of the highlight.
Select to use the default background color for the highlight. The default is the background color used for window text in your Windows desktop color scheme.
Review the effect of your current selections.
Use the CPM Highlight Symbol dialog box to determine how bars, lines, column heading blocks, and other design objects appear in a selected CPM view.
To make design settings for CPM view objects
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
Expand the Highlight Information list and select a CPM View.
Scroll to find a CPM element.
Double-click a CPM object (not a text sample) such as a box.
Select the highlight pattern to apply to the CPM box.
Select the highlight color.
Displays the selected pattern and color highlight as it will appear in CPM views.
Use the Save As dialog box to save Open Workbench .rwh highlights files. To create a new highlights file, change the name of the file you edited.
To save a highlights file
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
The Save As dialog box opens.
Defines the folder or subfolder to which to save the file.
Displays a list of existing file names.
Defines the name of the file.
Defines the type of file you want to save.
Default: .rwh
Your highlights file is saved.
If you do not want to highlight any project data, clear the default highlight file location. The default highlight file and location is set on the Locations tab of the Options dialog box.
To delete a highlight
The View Highlights dialog box opens.
The highlight is deleted.
The Save As dialog box opens.
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