Criteria Inheritance Example

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.

Let's look at how the criteria table is built.

Default Activity Box

The default activity box has the following attributes defined: black text color, square box ends with no color, and no diagonals.
In-progress Activity Box

The In-progress activity box inherits all the attributes from the default activity box except the left diagonal.

Criterion Text Color Left Style Left Color Right Style Right Color Left Diag Right Diag

In-progress <default> <default> <default> <default> <default> \\ <default>

Criterion	Text Color	Left Style	Left Color	Right Style	Right Color	Left Diag	Right Diag
In-progress	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	\\	<default>

Complete Activity Box

The Complete activity box has both diagonals filled in and inherits all the remaining default attributes.

Criterion	Text Color	Left Style	Left Color	Right Style	Right Color	Left Diag	Right Diag
Complete	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	\\	/
In-progress	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	\\	<default>

Critical Activity Box

Because the critical criteria does not define the diagonal attribute, a critical activity inherits that attribute from either the complete, in-progress, or default criteria.

Criterion	Text Color	Left Style	Left Color	Right Style	Right Color	Left Diag	Right Diag
Critical	<default>	<default>	Red	<default>	Red	<default>	<default>
Complete	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	\\	/
In-progress	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	<default>	\\	<default>

With just these criteria defined, Open Plan can display a critical activity that is planned, one that is in progress, and one that is complete.

Critical Planned	Critical In-progress	Critical Complete