And you don’t know what to do when you want to go back to that essential planners view. And another 4 weeks from then your normal Gantt chart won’t look anything like the standard (you know, the one with: indicator, task mode, task name, duration, start, finish, predecessors and resource names columns).
After a few weeks you will change the view again, just to ad that other important custom field Bob from R&D wanted, that one that describes late progress on a task with a visual effect.
Very often a view comes into play on a busy day when you need some columns in a Gantt chart fast and you edit the standard Gantt chart. This post will be about creating views and about maintaining them properly. Views in Microsoft Project are almost always created poorly. The common case is that they have taught themselves how to use the product and most of the time things go relatively smoothly. Most of the time they use the product as a standalone scheduling tool when I first visit them. As a consultant I travel between lots of companies that use Microsoft Project.
