The next step is activating the software by entering your name and email address on the activation form. If you are unable to connect to the Internet, or if firewall or security software prevents the automatic activation, you will be directed to a website to complete the activation. After entering your name, email, and license key on the website, an activation code will be generated. Milestone Tasks are displayed with a black background and white text.
To see a complete list of Tasks for a certain day, click that day in the View, and a list of those tasks will appear. Each task is represented by a box of a certain shape and color.
Shapes: Standard tasks are rectangles. Summary tasks are trapezoids. Milestones are hexagons. Colors: Standard tasks are outlined in blue and have a light blue background.
Critical tasks are outlined in red and have a white background. Task's predecessors and successors are shown by connecting lines and arrows. Summary tasks can be collapsed hiding all of its child tasks or expanded showing all of its child tasks by pressing the plus or minus symbol on the upper left of each summary task's box.
Each task's box contains information about that task. Summary tasks display Percent Complete instead of Resources. Milestone tasks display the Milestone Date and the task's ID.
The left side of the view display's a Resource's name. The user can scroll through resources by adjusting the horizontal scroll bar. The right side of the views displays a vertical bar showing that resource's allocation for the time period specified in the header. If the resource is overallocated for that period, the vertical bar is red above the percent mark.
This view is convenient for just listing all of the tasks. See Gantt View for more information. SPV isn't a plain 'clone' of Microsoft Project. It makes viewing a project easier and in many ways a better experience than other viewers and even Microsoft Project itself by making the data itself your means of navigation. Task Names, Resources, and Dates can be clicked to reveal more information about that particular item.
When browsing detail, the cursor changes to a hand shaped icon when you can click an item for a more detailed view. There are three different items that you can click:. The Back and Forward buttons on the far left side of the toolbar work exactly like a web browser's Back and Forward buttons. Opening a new file resets the saved views. The Task Detail View contains the most important information about a particular task. You can see Name, Start, Finish, etc You can click in either of the tables to bring up those Resources or Predecessor Tasks.
The Next and Prev buttons navigate through the current top view's tasks. The Notes tab contains notes for the Task, if any. No Notes will be displayed if there are no notes associated with this task. The Date Detail View is a flexible way to look at tasks grouped by a time frame. By default, clicking a date will show the Date Detail View for that date only.
You can change the time frame by selecting Day , Week , Month , Quarter , or Year from the drop-down menu in the upper right of this view. Selecting Week will show all tasks from the previous Sunday to the next Saturday, for example. Selecting Month will show tasks for that calendar month, and so on. There are three tabs in this view: Starting default tab , Ending , and In Progress. Selecting the Starting or Ending tab will show all tasks starting and ending, respectively, for the selected time period.
Selecting the In Progress tab will show all tasks in progress including starting and ending for the selected time period.
The tables in this view function exactly like the Gantt table with respect to Navigation Mode. Using Task Update , you can notify your project manager by e-mail of updates of your progress within a project.
The Project Manager must set the e-mail address in Microsoft Project to which all updates will be sent. To set this field, open Microsoft Project.
Open the File menu, then select Properties. Choose the Custom tab. In the Name field, type "Steelray Email" without the quotes and it is case sensitive! In the Value field, enter the update e-mail address, then click Add and save the file.
Task Update will only be enabled in Steelray if this field is set correctly. You must enter your e-mail information in the Preferences dialog prior to updating a task. In the E-mail section of the Preferences dialog, set the following: In the From box, enter your e-mail address. If you are unsure of any of these settings, contact your network administrator.
The Project Manager's e-mail address, which will receive all update e-mails, is displayed here. Below this are three choices: The task still hasn't started: Select this option to update the planned start date and the planned finish date or estimated duration. The task is in progress: Select this option to update the actual start date and the percent complete or remaining duration. Can Steelray Project Viewer be installed on a server? Does Viewer run on Unix distributions?
Does Viewer run on Windows 7? Does Viewer run on Windows? How do I obfuscate a project file? How do I update Steelray Project Viewer?
Installer Questions 6 articles in this Topic Downloading Viewer on a Mac results in problems opening and running the installer. Preferences conversion issue caused Gantt grid to be hidden on first run after conversion. Preferences were not saved in the recommended folder in Windows Vista.
When a license. Fix to the Linux installer. Better support for hyperlinks. Refresh artifacts displayed on Gantt chart when viewer first launched. Fix to Task Usage grid.
Grid display columns and widths are restored to defaults when value is blank in preferences file. Log entry is created when preferences file cannot be created or cannot be written. Converts old preferences file and move license. A new launcher for machines with limited memory.
FIX: Fix for Gantt chart printing. FIX: Scrolling is now twice as fast for large files. FIX: Fix for drawing of dependency arrows on split tasks. FIX: Opening a subproject file that resides in the parent's folder should now open with no File Dialog prompt, regardless of the path of the last file opened.
Computers with more RAM were unaffected by this bug. FIX: One cause for an "An error has occurred while opening the file" error message has been fixed. FIX: In the Gantt Chart, the vertical red line that draws 'today' should now be visible from top to bottom. FIX: Expanding a subproject task should no longer cause a delay before opening the file.
FIX: Filtering now works on all subproject files. FIX: In rare cases, summary tasks would not expand to show their child tasks. This has been fixed. FIX: In very rare cases, the Cost for a summary task could be incorrect. This should resolve some display issues, as well as fix any errors with Vista Aero. FIX: File opening times have been improved for large files.
FIX: In some cases, tasks that were subprojects would not expand when the expand symbol was clicked. FIX: In some cases, the Gantt bars were displaying the incorrect color. FIX: Files with no tasks will no longer cause an unknown error. FIX: The left-side view bar should now display correctly after opening files.
FIX: The View pane is now a constant size. Right-click on a task in the Gantt Chart to add an Annotation to that task. FIX: Some files printed one or two tasks less per page than indicated. FIX: In rare cases, not all Resources were displayed. FIX: Some subproject file tasks weren't expandable. FIX: Column Aliases should display correctly now. FIX: Subproject file tasks no longer expand upon the opening of another subproject file.
FIX: Page numbers now print correctly. FIX: Some Help files have been updated. FIX: Subprojects should now load properly. FIX: Files containing thousands of text styles colored or formatted text in the Gantt Chart should now display all styles. FIX: Blank lines should no longer cause tasks to not display. FIX: Foreign languages Chinese and Japanese, in particular were not displaying correctly in some views.
FIX: When using silent install, the license file should now get installed to the correct location. FIX: Applying a formatted text style to a column that isn't displayed in the Gantt Chart no longer causes an error on file opening. FIX: Rows with text styles applied weren't being applied properly columns and individual cells were displaying correctly.
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