The Trace Logic dialog box displays by clicking , selecting Activity Details, then:
- Selecting
Show Trace Logic or
- Pressing Ctrl+Alt+T
Trace Logic Tasks
Using trace logic to identify activity relationships
In the Trace Logic dialog box, you can view activity relationships using trace logic.
For more detailed information, including information on customizing the Trace Logic display and printing the Trace Logic layout, see Working with Trace Logic.
Controlling placement of the dialog box
You have full control of the placement of the Trace Logic dialog box in the Activities page. By dragging and dropping the dialog box or using the controls available in the title bar of the dialog box, you move, dock, or reduce the dialog box to a tab that displays, by default, under or can be moved to the right of the Gantt chart or activity network diagram. See Customize activity views for more information.
Field Definitions
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- Maximize
- Maximizes the dialog box to the full area of the Activity page.
- Restore from Maximized State
- Restores the dialog box to its default size.
- Float
- Resizes and makes the dialog box able to be dragged and dropped within or outside the browser, referred to as Float State.
- Restore from Float State
- Restores the dialog box from Float State and positions it within the window.
Note: Dragging and docking the dialog box creates the same results as Float and Restore from Float State controls.
- Auto-hide
- Hides the contents of the dialog box by reducing the view to a tab. Clicking the tab restores the view of the dialog box.
- Toggle Auto-hide
- Prepares the dialog box for the Auto-hide state. This toggle serves as an state in between the tabbed state and the restored state of the dialog box.
- Exit
- Closes the dialog box.
- Pan
- Select and move the displayed portion of an activity network diagram which shows predecessor and successor relationships.
- Zoom
- Zoom in for a closer, more detailed view of the activity network diagram. After adjusting the focus to a closer view, you can click the Pan icon and move the diagram to view a specific portion.
- Zoom out
- Zoom out for a wider, fuller view of the displayed activities.
- Zoom timescale
- Zoom the timescale so that all displayed activities are in view.
- Reset
- Click after you have zoomed in or out on a set of activities to restore the focus of the activities to 100% of their actual size.
- Trace Logic Options
- Open the Trace Logic Options dialog box, in which you can set the number of predecessor or successor activity levels.
- Print
- Opens the Print dialog box, in which you can set the following options for printing the predecessor and successor relationships discovered in the Trace Logic dialog box:
- Printer to use to print the displayed predecessor/successor relationship
- Page range to print
- Number of copies to print
- Paper size
- Orientation of page, for example, portrait or landscape
- Margins
- Color or monochrome settings
- Quality of print
- Number of sides printed per page
- Other job attributes
- Print Preview
- Displays the current predecessor/successor relationship in a preview window that allows you to make adjustments before printing.
- Page Setup
- Displays the Page Setup dialog box in which you can set the following options for the page layout before printing the displayed predecessor and successor relationships:
- Page orientation, such as portrait or landscape
- Margin sizes
- Size of paper to be used
- Header and footer properties
- Sheet area
- Scale of image to fit the page
- Order of pages when printing