Permanently Hiding a Task   

Is there any way to permanently hide a task under program control?  That is, 
I want my VBA program to hide a task in such a way that users cannot unhide 
it through the User Interface?

date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:50:01 -0700   author:   RobV

Re: Permanently Hiding a Task   

In article ,
 RobV  wrote:

> Is there any way to permanently hide a task under program control?  That is, 
> I want my VBA program to hide a task in such a way that users cannot unhide 
> it through the User Interface?

RobV,
Sorry, if users have access to the project file, there is no way to 
permanently hide a task from their view.

Why do you need to do this? In most cases like this, the best approach 
is training.

John
Project MVP

date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:36:18 -0700   author:   John

Re: Permanently Hiding a Task   

Thanks, John.  I want to store some PMO info on each schedule without 
interfering with the PM.  I thought I could achieve this by storing it in a 
row and then hiding the row. 

"John" wrote:

> In article ,
>  RobV  wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to permanently hide a task under program control?  That is, 
> > I want my VBA program to hide a task in such a way that users cannot unhide 
> > it through the User Interface?
> 
> RobV,
> Sorry, if users have access to the project file, there is no way to 
> permanently hide a task from their view.
> 
> Why do you need to do this? In most cases like this, the best approach 
> is training.
> 
> John
> Project MVP
>

date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:11:01 -0700   author:   RobV

Re: Permanently Hiding a Task   

In article ,
 RobV  wrote:

> Thanks, John.  I want to store some PMO info on each schedule without 
> interfering with the PM.  I thought I could achieve this by storing it in a 
> row and then hiding the row.

RobV,
You're welcome. Unless you need to store the PMO info on each task, you 
could use the comments box found under File/Properties/summary tab. If 
you DO need PMO info on each or most tasks, consider using the Notes 
field or a spare text field however, be advised that spare text fields 
will only hold up to 255 characters in the text string, the Notes field 
will hold a lot more.

Nonetheless, neither of the above suggestions will make the data 
inaccessible to users.

John
Project MVP 
> 
> "John" wrote:
> 
> > In article ,
> >  RobV  wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any way to permanently hide a task under program control?  That 
> > > is, 
> > > I want my VBA program to hide a task in such a way that users cannot 
> > > unhide 
> > > it through the User Interface?
> > 
> > RobV,
> > Sorry, if users have access to the project file, there is no way to 
> > permanently hide a task from their view.
> > 
> > Why do you need to do this? In most cases like this, the best approach 
> > is training.
> > 
> > John
> > Project MVP
> >

date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:47:47 -0700   author:   John