Coded Import Options from MS Project into Milestones Professional

We made a great video for this month on importing from MS Project.

This video shows almost all of our Coded Import options for getting your tasks from MS Project over to Milestones Professional.

This video covers lots of different import options, including “Birds on a Wire”, “Coded Presentation Timeline”, “Coded Symbols and Bars”, “Coded Finish Dates”, and a few more.

With these import options, you can either set up a Text field in MS Project to group tasks together during the import, or you can even use Number fields with a couple of the options, to tell Milestones how to display the tasks.

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December 2023 Tips and Tricks

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for December 2023

Global symbol date changes
My symbols are not showing dates.  I’ve tried unhiding dates in the toolbox and also individually.  Why won’t the dates show up?

Highlight changed dates when refreshing
I refreshed my schedule and choose the option to highlight the changes.  Now, how do I turn off the highlighting?

Transfer a license
The last user of one of our milestones licenses has left the company.  How do we transfer his registered license to another user at our company?

Skipping dates when moving with mouse
In a Gantt chart when I try to move an end date, it always seems to skip one day of the week (i.e. Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri). The day skipped changes as well. I have checked all calendar options and cannot determine why it is doing this.

Sorting by dollar values
I need to sort tasks by dollar amount and dollar categories.  How is this done?

Anchor text to a symbol
Is there a way to anchor  a string of text to a symbol or a task row?

Bars not filling in on imported schedule
I imported my Microsoft Project schedule into Milestones Professional.  I want the bars to fill to the status date.  Most of them don’t do this.  Why not?

Change a symbol’s color
How can I change the color of a single symbol on the schedule?

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for December 2023

Upgrade to Milestones Professional 2023

Click here to Upgrade to Milestones Professional 2023 for only $199 (if you already own any version of Milestones Professional).

To see what has changed, check out our “What’s New in Milestones Professional 2023” page.

Join the Milestones Professional Users LinkedIn Group

For anyone interested, there’s a free Milestones Professional user group on LinkedIn you can join to share best practices, network with other users, and maybe learn some tips along the way from other experienced Milestones users. To join, head over to the following website and click Join: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6796817

Note: This user group is an unofficial group run by Milestones software users, and is not managed by KIDASA Software, Inc. A free LinkedIn account is required to join the group.