• Check out the perfect dashboard chart and download KIDASA's Stoplights and Indicators e-book.

• Tip of the month: Create a mini-schedule.

• Tips and tricks:

  • Add a column with percent complete symbols.

  • Easily add columns with stoplight status indicators.

  • Import several dates for a single row on a schedule.

  • Customize summary bars.

  • More!

June 2009

• It's now possible to select Refresh from Project Server on the Connections tab of Milestones Professional and Milestones Project Companion.  This new feature is available for users of version 2008.

• Tip of the month: Move a column from one side of the schedule to the other

• Tips and tricks:

  • How can I zoom in to see more detail?

  • I have a schedule that spans many months, but I only want to work on one week (sometimes one month) at a time.  Is there any way that the schedule can just scroll into the next (or previous) week, month, quarter, year?

  • When updating our Milestones Professional presentation schedule, we are using a text field in Microsoft Project. Our question is, if the Microsoft Project file has two tasks with the same text "ID" then which task will the Milestones refresh program use to update the Milestones presentation schedule?

  • Can a time scale show numbers instead of dates?  For example, can I show 1, 2, ... instead of January, February, ...

  • I am having trouble removing a picture on my schedule.  For some reason, I can't select it.

  • Can I show the duration of a horizontal task bar as the text for that bar?  Can I add text to it?  For Example [duration] working days.

  • I would like to add vertical milestone lines across all tasks. The vertical milestone line would look like the current date line, but I would be able to add several as needed. Is that possible?

  • I am trying to develop an application which ties together my Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with Milestones Professional so that I can consolidate my financial information with my schedule information.  I know Milestones Professional fairly well but I am not familiar with programming.  Is there any documentation anywhere?

April 2009

• Milestones Professional helps a customer make a case for more headcount during down times

• Tips  for working with plotters and large format printers.

• Tips and tricks:

  • What's the best way to e-mail schedules to others?

  • Is it possible to have a time scale which is more expanded in one year than in the others?  

  • For custom date headings, can the symbol date format correspond to the headings

  • How can I get the symbol text to have a transparent background?  

  • How can I change the bar shape for my summary tasks?  

  • Can I select one column of information in Excel and paste that column into Milestones?  

  • Is there a way to quickly see the Unique IDs on each symbol while I'm working on a Milestones chart?  

February 2009

• New edition of Successfully Presenting Your Projects

• Schedule Makeovers

• Timely Timelines

  • Lincoln Presidency

  • The Mortgage Crisis

  • Dow Jones 2000-2009 with Historical Events

  • D-Day Invasion

• Tips and Tricks

  • Is it possible to copy the structure of a schedule?

  • Can the baseline be "frozen"?

  • How can a bar be added without symbols on the ends?

  • More!