How to get the Values of Your Activity Codes to Customize the Look of Your Gantt Chart in Primavera P6?

P6 Activity Codes as a Source of Gantt Bar Configuration

I have often been asked the question – ‘can I have my schedule activity bars automatically appear a specific color and/or pattern according to the value of a specific code?’  Yes, you can do this very easily.

Let’s look at one simple example.  

Above I have incorporated additional bar configurations along with the default Critical Remaining Work and Remaining Work configurations. 

The additional bar configurations are generating the hatching by filtering on the activity code used to assign the ‘Engineering’ and ‘Construction’ grouping in the layout.

Above are the results of additional bar configurations to add the hatching for the activity code assigning the Engineering code or Construction code.

Above, the default critical and remaining bar configurations have been turned off – displayed are just the hatching in the colors specified in the new bar configurations, specified by activity code.

The filter attached is a simple one line filter which will activate the bar configuration in accordance with the assignment of the specified activity code value to the activity.

The example above shows the simple filter attached to the ‘Engineering Activity’ bar configuration.

This is a very simple example. Be creative and use the functionality of the Bar Configurations to help you with creating the customized Gantt Bar(s) you require.  With the bar configurations you need enabled – save your layout – create different layouts/bar configurations as required.