P6 Predecessors & Successors - Display Activity Name in Gantt Chart column

Is there a way to include the full text description of predecessors and successors (i.e. Activity Name) in a column in Gantt charts rather than just their Activity ID?

even crazier than report editor :)
you can create an activity UDF like "Predecessor Names" and run a script (trigger or job initiated) directly on the database to give it values for every activity, by joining Activity Names of any predecessors. you would have to trim that to some max varchar value (default for text udf's is 255 which may quickly prove insufficient).
I seriously doubt that is feasable (little value for effort, affects performance and possibly risks db integrity if inproperly done).

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