Hide progress on Gantt chart

Question

Hi
I've produced a gantt chart based the following query
Select Null Link,
          Task_Name,
          Task_Id,
          Parent_id,
          actual_start,
          actual_end,
          null progress,
          planned_start,
          Planned_End
From   query_table
It all looks good, except that I don't want to display progress since we don't actually hold this value. I've tried setting it to null, as above, but it displays on the chart as 0%. Is there any way of removing this value from display on each task on the chart?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
You'll need to customise the XML to achieve this behaviour.  On the Chart Attributes page, set "Use Custom XML" to Yes, and in the XML remove all references to:
Complete: {%Complete}%
Doing so will remove references to the progress bar from the tooltips used on the Gantt chart.  Next you'll need to update the <task_styles> tag to include some label information for the <actual> bar.  It looks like the Complete label is the default label associated with a Project Gantt, although I haven't found anything in the online documentation stating this.  I'll follow up with AnyChart on this.  In the meantime, I would recommend reviewing their online User's Guide, specifically Labels in Tasks, where you'll find information on the possible labels you can define for the bars in the timeline region of the chart.  If you leave the <text> tags empty, or simply don't include them, it looks like the bar displays without any label, which may be the behaviour you're trying to achieve.  Here's the XML you can add to your chart:
         <actual>
            <bar_style>
              <labels>
               <label anchor="Right" valign="Center" halign="Far">
                 <text></text>
                 <font face="Verdana" size="10" bold="true" color="White">
                 </font>
               </label>
              </labels>
...where the tags in grey above already exist in the chart XML, so should not be copied.  I hope this helps.
Regards,
Hilary