Wish granted, @Admin Kelly-Wehrmann‚: the secret red brick chapter (and associated cheat) is as below. What cleared my conscience was the realization that a user will have 30 days notice (in yellow) that an upcoming key date has come into range. So when the date passes and it turns purple, if there'...

Oh my gosh! @David Cornwell! I just found the secret red brick! It's 10:30 pm in Calgary, and the sun's just set (thanks for loaning it to us again this year, and take heart: your days are getting longer) so I will park it for tonight, but send a screenshot and the incantation soon -- just wanted to...

Thanks David, Yes, precisely: having wandered the same logical sidestreets, we now stand together facing reality's red brick wall, mulling over a way to think diagonalley. Regards,Doug

Well, two days later and I'm still in love with this view. I think we're going to go steady. I added another whistle to go with the bells on it, as below. Now: for bragging rights, can anyone think of an out of the box way (i.e. no API; I've cornered that cheat market) to make the Project Level Cust...

As below, noting (spoiler alert) that this post does require some textmode dark magic, I'd like to share this Project View I invented today, which -- along with being well suited to Projects with a key target date in the middle of the workplan -- automatically tracks Percent Complete by Phase, which...

I have an oldie-but-a-goodie report that has some special color formatting on it to highlight dates of interest (green good, red bad, yellow coming up, blue can wait, etc.). However, one of my clients pointed out to me that when the information is exported to pdf, the colors are "off", as below. I'm...

Hi Kelly, As (I'm told) confession is good for the soul... With all due respect to your Magic Eight Ball, I did indeed throw in the towel and solved it by cheating with some code: the Hot Sheet Magic Report I was working on now shows +3, +4, or +5 business days, as the end users desired, and appreci...

Yep: very easy. Thanks again, David. Only took me 10 years to figure out. I also had an offline question about "why ALAP" for the Tasks preceding the Main Event. Here's my reply, noting that your situation and experience might certainly differ: The ALAP comes from several (intense) theoretical discu...

Thanks David -- yep: you're spot on! Regards,Doug

During a recent Executive Coaching session, I ran into a tricky but common challenge. The Templates I am helping them design are to prepare for multi-million dollar maintenance upgrades that are scheduled two years in advance. The "Main Event" is about three quarters of the way through the timeline...