Bar and Task Properties dialog - Bar tab

You use the Bar tab of the Bar and Task Properties dialog to view and maintain the properties of the selected bar(s).

Explanation of the Details fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Name	Enter a descriptive name to apply to the bar.
Start	The date and time on which the earliest task on the bar starts.
Finish	The date and time on which the latest task on the bar finishes.
Unschedulable	This check box is selected if one or more of the tasks on the bar is incapable of being rescheduled for any reason. This can be caused by calendar conflicts, or by a task being part of a link loop. Reschedule errors
Priority	Select the priority of the bar, for example None, Low, Medium or High. Assigning a priority to bars, tasks and allocations
Mark for hiding	Select this check box to specify that you want to hide this bar from view in the project. If this check box is selected, the bar will be hidden from view when you click in the Show/Hide group on the Format tab. Hiding and showing bars and tasks in a project
Tasks may overlap	Select this check box to specify that the tasks on this bar can overlap. You may want to do this in order to plan a unit network in which tasks can overlap on a single bar, rather than planning it over a number of bars, to save space. Specifying that tasks on a bar can overlap

Explanation of the Costs fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Cost from cost centre	The costs that have been recorded against the bar's tasks, either from a selected cost centre or from all cost centres.
Income to cost centre	The income that has been recorded against the bar's tasks, either to a selected cost centre or to all cost centres.
Cost centre	Select a cost centre in order to view cost and income information relating to that cost centre only, or select All to view cost and income information relating to all cost centres.
Budgeted cost	A field primarily intended for use in projects that have been imported from, or that are intended to be exported to, Primavera® software. In Primavera software, the Budgeted cost field can be used to record the budget cost of items without the need to use a baseline. When you import a project from Primavera software, resource and cost allocation information from this field in Primavera software is imported into this field in Asta Powerproject. You can view and edit this field against resource and cost allocations; the value is calculated for tasks and bars by summing the budgeted cost of the tasks' and bars' allocations. You can choose to calculate a number of earned value fields using the budgeted cost that has been recorded in this field rather than using a value from a baseline. Although this field is primarily intended for use in projects that have been imported from, or that are intended to be exported to, Primavera software, you may also find it useful in other projects, as a simple way of recording the budget cost of items without the need to use a baseline.

Explanation of the Work & Effort fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Actual quantity	The quantity of consumable resource that has been completed on the bar's tasks.
Quantity remaining	The quantity that remains to be completed against the bar's tasks.
Actual work	The amount of work that has been completed on the bar's tasks.
Work remaining	The work that remains to be completed against the bar's tasks.
Actual effort	The amount of effort that has been completed on the bar's tasks.
Effort remaining	The amount of effort that remains to be completed against the bar's tasks.
Milestones done	The number of milestones on the bar that have been completed.
Remaining	The number of milestones on the bar that remain to be completed.
Effort percent complete	The percentage of required effort that has been completed against the bar's tasks.
Work percent complete	The percentage of required work that has been completed against the bar's tasks.
Quantity percent complete	The percentage of required quantity that has been completed against the bar's tasks.
Milestone percent complete	The percentages of milestones on the bar that have been completed.

Explanation of the Codes fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Library	This column displays an entry for each available code library.
Entry	Select one or more codes from each code library that you want to assign to the bar.

Explanation of the User Fields fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Field	This column displays an entry for each available bar-level user-defined field.
Value	Enter a value for each user-defined field.

Explanation of the Archives fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Archived charts/summaries	Any charts or summary groups that have been archived from the bar (Asta Enterprise only). You can view details of archived charts or summary groups by selecting them and clicking Properties.

The Bar and Task Properties dialog may or may not display three tabs that display advanced information: Allocations, Links and Relations. If these three tabs are not currently displayed, you can click More >> to display them. If they are currently displayed, you can click Less << to hide them from view.

Bar and Task Properties dialog - Bar tab

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