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Use the Project Gantt Chart portlet to quickly view the status of projects and review each project's milestones.

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What information does the portlet display?

The project table on the left side of the portlet lists projects that meet the portfolio, project code value, or project filter criteria specified in the dashboard's Filter by field. In the table, you can expand the project rows
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The Gantt Chart on the right side of the portlet displays a bar for each project, which represents the span between the Planned Start and Scheduled Finish dates of the project. The blue section of each project bar indicates current progress, while the green section of each bar indicates remaining effort. When you expand a project row in the table to display the project's milestone activities, the Gantt Chart shows milestone icons (Milestone icon) for each start and finish milestone activity in the project and baseline milestone (baseline milestones) icons for each start and finish milestone in the baseline if one has been applied to the project.

The legend in the toolbar shows the meaning of bars and milestones that display in the Gantt chart:

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Display a project's milestone activities

To display a project's start and finish milestone activities, click Expand next to the project name in the table. The table lists all of the project's start and finish milestone activities, unless you specify an activity code filter to refine the list of milestones that display. In the Gantt Chart, milestones are represented by Milestone icon icons. Hover over the icon to view milestone details such as start date, finish date, and status.

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Open selected projects

To open projects from within the portlet, click Open project in the portlet toolbar.

When you open projects from the portlet, P6 Web Access launches the Projects landing page. The landing page may be any available page in the Projects section (such as Activities or Workspace) and is defined in your assigned user interface view. If necessary, you may be able to change your view preferences to specify a different landing page.

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Select or clear an activity code filter

To refine the list of milestone activities that display for each project in the portlet, you can select a global activity code filter. When you select an activity code filter, only milestones that have the activity code value you select are displayed in the portlet.

To select an activity code filter, from the Filter Milestone By Activity Code menu (Filter by) in the portlet toolbar, choose Set Filter. In the Select Activity Codes dialog, expand the list of global activity codes to display the activity code value you want to filter by. Select the activity code value, then click OK. You can only select one activity code value. The dialog closes and the portlet is refreshed.

To clear an activity code filter, from the Filter Milestone By Activity Codey menu (Filter by) in the portlet toolbar, choose Clear Filter. After clearing a filter, the portlet is refreshed to display all milestone activities.

Tip: Your activity code filter settings are saved per dashboard.

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Set display options

In the Project Gantt Chart portlet, you can customize the columns that appear in the table, specify a timescale, zoom the Gantt Chart in and out, and toggle between full screen and normal mode.

Choose columns to display in the activity table

To choose the columns you want to display in the table, click the Column Selector Customize columns in the portlet toolbar and select any of the following options:

Note: The ID and Name options display automatically in the activity table of the Gantt portlet.
Set the timescale to display in the Gantt chart

To set the timescale displayed in the Gantt chart, right click the timescale bar in the Gantt chart,

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In the toolbar of the Project Gantt portlet, click the Timescale Timescale icon and select one of the following time intervals:

Resize the activity table and Gantt chart in the portlet

To size the Gantt Chart to fit 100% of its size, click Zoom to fit.

To expand the width of the table or Gantt Chart, drag the divider bar.

Print the Gantt chart

To print the Gantt chart, click:

View Help

To view context-sensitive, online help, click Help.

Refresh the view of data

To refresh the view of data displayed in the Gannt chart, click Refresh.

View the portlet in full screen mode

To display the portlet in full screen mode, click Maximize portlet in the portlet title bar. To return the portlet to normal size, click Minimize portlet again.

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