Customizing a Resource Histogram View
There are operations that enable you to customize resource histogram views in Open Plan.
These operations are as follows:
- Selecting resources
- Defining histogram display options
- Customizing the date scale
You can display the Histogram Preferences dialog box by opening a histogram either as a stand-alone view or as part of a barchart view and clicking Preferences on the View tab. (If the histogram is displayed as part of a barchart view, the option is Histogram Preferences.)
Selecting Resources
Before you can display data in a resource histogram, you must select the resource(s) to include in the view. When you click Select Resource on the View tab, Open Plan displays the Resource Selection dialog box.
You can also choose to display resource pools in the histogram. Keep in mind, however, that all availabilities, requirements, and usage displayed for a pool include both the pool and a roll-up of the child resources belonging to the pool. Clearing the Hide Unreferenced Resources setting displays the entire resource use file hierarchy, which makes the resource pools available for selection.
Resource Histogram Display Options
To define the appearance of bars in a resource histogram view, click Preferences on the View tab or right-click within the histogram view and click Preferences on the context menu to display the Options tab of the Histogram Preferences dialog box.
With this dialog box, you can indicate whether you want to display resource information or earned value information and if you want to display a graph only, a table only, or a combination of the two. If you display a table, you can indicate how many decimal places should be displayed.
You also have the option of specifying the bar style (3-dimensional or flat). If multiple bars are displayed, you can specify their display as either side-by-side or front-to-back. If you choose to display flat bars front-to-back, Open Plan varies the width of the bars to distinguish between the different types of information being displayed.
Customizing the Date Scale
You can customize the date scale appearing in a stand-alone resource histogram view using the same procedures that you use to customize the date scale in a barchart view. (In fact, when a resource histogram appears in a barchart view, the barchart date scale controls the histogram portion of the view as well.)