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(As you’d probably expect by now, ) TA offers a couple of ways to create milestones and does a couple of extra things with them too…

A milestone is represented in TA by a simple black diamond but this can be on its own or on the end of an existing task. This was done to represent additional effort that may be required to achieve a milestone but cannot be split from it:

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But how can you set a milestone…?

The easiest way to set a milestone in TA is set the duration of the task to be zero hours. This will automatically change the notation from the task bar to the black diamond shape. This is the ‘normal’ type of milestone.

If you want to specify that a ‘normal’ task is also a milestone then you can do this from the properties dialog. Simply select the element, or multiple elements if you want to create a number of milestones at the same time, and open the properties dialog - either click on the properties button or right click in datagrid mode:

(click to see larger). This will then open the properties window:

(click to see larger). Then simply click on the ‘This task is a milestone’ checkbox to set the task as a milestone.

Depending on how you have your version of TA configured, creating a milestone can add a colourful background to the Gantt Chart. This feature was added so that it was easy to find milestones on a big Gantt Chart.

To see this feature in action - or turn it off open up the project settings dialog by either clicking on the white project bar at the bottom of the Gantt Chart or by clicking on the Project Configuration button:

(click to see larger). This will then open up the project configuration screen where you can control how the milestones are displayed:

(click to see larger). PLEASE NOTE the ‘Show Milestone Highlight background’ option applies to all milestones.

Filed under: Time Architect by Matt
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