Introduction to views

A view is a window onto a project. A view might display the programme chart, a subchart, tasks from a number of charts, all the tasks with allocations of a particular resource or every critical task in the whole project. A view might have the project view turned off, particular columns displayed in the spreadsheet and particular bar chart features turned on or off. A view can display any subset of the project data, and present it with any combination of display options. Each view is displayed in a tab - or in window, if you have configured Project Viewer to display views in distinct windows rather than in tabs.

When you open a project in Project Viewer, you can view the project using any of the existing views that have been defined in the project that have been made available to be displayed in Project Viewer.

In addition to the type of view described above - bar chart views - there is another type of view - calendar views. Calendar views display the tasks in one or more charts or summary groups in a calendar, or diary format, displaying whichever tasks appear in a project within a particular time period - a week or a month, for example. Calendar views can also be used to display the allocations that appear within a particular time period for specific resources or cost centres.