I have several of the same/similar item to build and ship. I am trying to see how this is going to look for the shipping department.
When I look in calendar view, I can see that multiple items are shipping on one day, but I cannot see what the items are because the task names are incomplete. For example, I might have a task heading that says Product A, under that, and indented, I have -design, -order parts, -assembly, -test, -wrap, -ship. I have that for Products A-Z.
When I look at the calendar view, I see -ship on a certain date, but I cannot see what is shipping unless I open the task. Some of the people I share the calendar with will be looking at a paper version, and will not be able to open the task to see what the product is.
The only solution I see is to change the task names to -Product A design, -Product A order parts, Product A assembly and so on. Seems unnecessarily laborious. Is there a way to do this more simply, like force the task name to show the header on the calendar view?
If Product A and Ship is what you want to see, under the assumption that Product A is a Summary task, a potential approach is to change the format of this to be a Line (may be a different color). (In MS Project 2013, you can go to the Calendar view and right click on the bars to get to the menu).
In the test that I did, I saw the Product A line running through multiple days of the calendar, and the Ship task coming in as a bar on one of the days (Wish I had screenshot functionality here).
This could work, but will have limitations - for example, if Product A and Product B overlap in timelines, even if Ship occurs on different days, it may be hard to distinguish which is which.
You can direct message me if there are follow-up questions... perhaps I can send screenshots etc. Saving Changes...
