Box Attributes Tab
The Box Attributes tab controls the appearance of the activity boxes based on criteria that you define. In this way, you can use attributes such as box styles or colors to represent activity data. Use this tab to define the attributes of an activity box.
The default activity box has the following attributes: black text color, square ends, and no diagonals.
Sometimes an activity meets the criteria set for more than one set of attributes. To determine how to display that activity, Open Plan uses the order in which the activity box attributes are listed in this dialog box. For each activity, Open Plan starts at the bottom of the list and uses the attributes defined for the first criterion that the activity satisfies. If the activity does not meet any of the defined criteria, Open Plan uses the default activity box.
Initially, Open Plan displays the activity box attributes in the order in which you entered them. However, you can delete an attribute by selecting any cell and pressing Delete. And you can change the order in which the box attributes appear by using the Change Order buttons.
When defining box attributes, it is not necessary to define box attributes for every conceivable situation. Unless you want a particular attribute to be controlled by a particular criterion, use the default setting. Open Plan displays an activity that conforms to more than one criterion by using a combination of the colors and styles defined for those criteria to which it conforms. If more than one of these criteria have non-default settings for the same attribute, Open Plan uses the higher criterion on the list. (This is the only circumstance under which the order of the criteria on the list matters.)
A preview window shows how Open Plan would display an activity meeting the selected criterion. If you select multiple rows, the preview window displays how an activity meeting all the criteria would be displayed.
In many network views, the Box Attributes tab has definitions for planned, in-progress, complete, and critical criteria. Unless you define attributes for additional criteria, any other criteria inherit the default settings.