LisaProject Concepts

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Task charts can be multi-page. To see a multi-page chart, you need to either scroll through the pages or reduce the page layout so that the chart fits in a single screen display.

LisaProject enables you to create a Schedule chart and then automatically obtain the associated Resource and Task charts.

The Schedule chart is created by drawing tasks and milestones, entering resources and durations for each task, and connecting the tasks and milestones with arrows to show the priority of events.

LisaProject calculates a schedule of dates for all tasks and milestones. You can override any of the dates that are calculated by entering "scheduled" dates.

You may modify your drawing of tasks and milestones in the Schedule chart at any time. When you do, the Resource and Task charts will automatically change.

Tasks and milestones are modified by first selecting them and then moving, stretching, shrinking, copying, or cutting them. You may also add pages to the Schedule chart to make a bigger chart.

You may change the style of text in a chart; this is called formatting. Changing the content of text is called editing, which includes adding to, rearranging, replacing, and removing existing text. Before you may edit or format, however, you must select the text to be changed.

Pointers

As you move the mouse, the pointer moves around the screen. Depending on what you're doing, the pointer can have any of the following shapes:

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The drawing pointer is used to d raw boxes and arrows in Schedule charts.

The text pOinter appears whenever you can enter text.

The arrow pointer is used for view controls, menu items, and selecting icons, tasks, milestones, and arrows.

The check pointer is used to choose items within a dialog box or the Preferences window.

The hourglass appears when you need to wait while the Lisa finishes what it is doing.

You tell LisaProject that you want to work with an object by selecting that object. You can change the selection as often as you like. You can either select a single object or all of the document.

Table 1 explains how to select things. A shaded outline shows that an object is selected. On task boxes or milestone circles that are selected, eight dark handles also appear on the outline. Text that is selected appears highlighted on the screen.

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Table 1. Selecting in LisaProject

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One or more characters

Do the Followi ng

• Move the pointer so that it touches the box. The pOinter changes to an arrow pOinter.

• Click the mouse button; a gray outline with handles appears to show that the box is selected.

• Move the pointer so that it touches the circle. The cursor changes to an arrow pOinter.

• Click the mouse button; a gray outline with handles appears to show that the circle is selected.

• Move the pointer inside the bar.

• Click the mouse button;

the bar becomes dark to show that it is selected.

• Move the pointer so that it touches the arrow. The pointer changes to an arrow pOinter.

• Click the mouse button;

the line becomes gray.

• Move the pOinter to the left of the first character.

II Press and hold the mouse button.

• Pull through to the last character and release the mouse button.

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Deselect; select nothing in the document

Do the Following

• Move the pointer to the word and cl ick the mouse button twice.

• Move the pointer to the line and click the mouse button three times.

• You may be able to use the (~) key as an alternative to clicking over the text field.

Pressing the (Tab) key selects the next text field in a group of text fields.

Pressing (Shift) and (Tab) together selects the prior text field.

Scroll arrow View button Elevator

Scroll bars

View button

Scrolling

The window of the active document has view controls, shown in Figure 4, that you may use to bring hidden portions of the document into view.

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The following brief descriptions explain the functions of the items you see in Figure 4.

Scroll arrows Enable you to bring hidden portions of a document into view in small increments.

Column width control

Elevators

Scroll bars

View buttons

In the Resource and Task charts, enables you to adjust the width of the left-hand column where Resource or Task names are displayed.

Indicate where the current view is in relation to the rest of the document.

Contain controls that let you change the view of the document.

Scroll the document one window at a time.

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Table 2 shows the different ways to scroll in LisaProject.

Table 2. Scrolling in LisaProject

To Scroll

In small increments

Window-sized increments

Continuous window-sized increments

Large jumps