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I use the local installed program on my pc and sometimes the application disconnects from the project I work and I need to open that project again.
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If you are disconnected when using the Real-Time collaboration, you can increase the time by going to menu File-Options and in Advanced tab increase the time for Collaboration Timeout.
How can I set a specific start/finish time for a task?
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In order to set a specific time for a task, click on the duration cell to open the date picker and click on the "Time" button. Select the time and then exit edit mode for the changes to take effect.
What is a Hyperlink?
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It allows to add files that reside locally on your disk or web addresses to the tasks.
What is Timescale?
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A ruler with time units, used usually in association with a Gantt Chart, to measure the duration of tasks. Time units may vary from minutes to hours, days, weeks, months or years.
What is Overallocation?
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The situation corresponding to a resource of type work who dedicates more than 8 hours a day to accomplish some tasks. Overallocation may have two distinct causes: 1) the resource is assigned to several tasks that are scheduled during the same period (i.e. the resource is supposed to work 4 hours at task1 and 8 hours at task2 in the same day); 2) the PM wants the resource to dedicate more time and assigns more than 100% units for that resource.
What is a Resource Assignment?
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It represents an association between specific tasks and the resources needed to complete them. Assigning resources to tasks will indicate who or what is needed to complete the tasks in your project. More than one resource can be assigned to a task. Both work resources (e.g. people) and material resources can be assigned to tasks.
What is a Task Dependency?
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It is a relationship between the tasks in the project that drive the schedule for the project. The nature of the relationship between a predecessor task and a successor task determines the type of task dependency to use. We can use 4 types of task dependencies: Finish - To - Start (FS), Start - To - Start (SS), Finish - To - Finish (FF) and Start - To - Finish (SF).
What is a Task Usage View?
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It is a view that lists for each task the resources assigned to it and the amount of work that each resource has performed over time. It is a matrix of work assignments. In a table spanned over the project's period, workloads are presented for each task, and within it, each resource, if any is available.
What is a Project Manager?
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A person responsible for accomplishing the expected project objectives, having responsibilities such as creating clear and attainable project objectives, building the project requirements, and managing constraints such as time, costs, scope and quality. A project manager can have the responsibility of planning, execution and closing of any project in a specific field and they represent the bridging gap between production team and the client. Typically project managers are users that create or edit project plans and they are the authors of the project plan.
How can I move task bar at an hour level?
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For moving Gantt bars, we only support day steps.
How can I resize a task bar at an hour level?
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For resizing Gantt bars, we only support half day steps.
I need a Gantt chart to show 70 years [by year] to track an historical project.
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We are sorry, but we don’t support dates out of the range. Dates must be between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2149.
How do I change the timescale to days?
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In order to change the timescale to hours, go to the Format menu and then select the Timescale option. Click on Bottom Tier tab, from "Units" field select "Hours" and then click OK. Please know that Units from all tiers should match for the changes to apply. For example, the units from "Bottom Tier" can't be in days and the ones from "Middle Tier" in hours.
Where can I find "Summary" table?
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The Summary Table can be found in Project menu - Table Option.
How to Export to Word on Mac?
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We are sorry but the "Export to Word" functionality isn't available for Mac platform.
How do I enable Agile to an existing project?
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To enable Agile for an existing project, open the desired project and go to menu Project - Agile. In the Agile Methodology dialog, choose from Scrum, Kanban and None options.

Another way to enable Agile for an existing project is to go to the View menu, click on Agile arrow to open the dropdown and after that, select Scrum or Kanban methods.
What features are available in the “Help” menu?
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In the “Help” menu you can find the following features: Online, Register, Select Language and About.
How can I change the color of the resources?
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To change the color of a specific resource, select the resource and then go to the Task menu and from Font Control change the color for the specific resource. If you want to change the color for all resources, go to the Format menu and select the "Text Styles" option. Make the desired changes and then click "OK" in the dialog.
How do I change the size of characters?
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To change the size of the tasks, select the task and then go to menu Task – and from Font Control change the size of that specific task. If you want to change the font for all tasks or a group of tasks, please go to menu Format – Text Style.
How do I put colors on my text?
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To color the text please select the tasks then go to Task menu – Font Control. Change the color by clicking on the “Text Color” button.
How can I change the text style for only one line?
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To change the text style for a task or resource, select the entire row and then go to menu Task – Font Control.
How do I add color to a cell?
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To make format changes to a cell, click on the cell then go to menu Task and from Font Control make the needed changes.
Can I make the tasks Strikethrough?
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To make a task strikethrough, click on the task, go to the Task menu and then from “Font Control”, click on the “Strikethrough” button.
How do I change the text style for a task to Bold?
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To make the Text Style of a task Bold, click on the task, go to the Task menu and then from “Font Control”, click on the “Bold” button.
How do I make the text from a task Underlined?
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To Underline the text of a task, click on the task , go to the Task menu and then from “Font Control” click on the “Underline” button.
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