MS Project 2010, custom text at Gantt Chart bar

I hope this works...

Note: You can delete the formula in Text1 and enter text into Text1's cell in the table directly. The idea here was to prevent users from editing Text1. 

Tom and Ismet,

Thank you for your replies, but suggestions still not working for me. Hope you can provide further comments.

Tom,

"You can do this by manual entry or by using a lookup table or a formula.  I suggest you insert a column in your table for "Text1," then see what values are there."

I went to Project for Dummies and did the following: View > Tables > right clicked on col head'g "Add New Col" > Custom Field > selected Text1 > Renamed it as "DID" > clicked Lookup > entered DID into Value col, clicked close, clicked o.k.

When I tried entering DID (Text1) at the task bar, nothing appeared. 

Ismet,

"Now insert Text1 and Text2 to the task table that you use, and enter DID into the Text2 field for any summary task that you want. So Text1 is used to display information on the summary bars and Text2 is used to enter the information."

I set the formula so that DID = Text2, but that's about all I could do. Not certain what you mean by "task table that you use". If you mean to insert both DID (Text1) and Text2 at the task bar, I would not know this function.

I'm trying to insert a custom text ("DID") for insertion over a summary task bar. I went to the Custom Fields dialog box and typed DID for Text1 and clicked o.k. I then went to Format bar > Text tab, and DID appeared alongside Text1 in the drop-down menu, but when I tried to insert it at top of bar, nothing appeared. Can someone help me with the right steps to take? I'm using MS Project 2010 with Win 7 Pro.

JKSJIM

Here are the steps to achieve this by using two custom text fields:

Part 1

• In the Custom Fields dialog box, select Text1.
• Then click Formula (in the section "Custom attributes"), enter [Text2] into the formula box opened, 

  and click OK twice to save the formula.

• Also check the box "Use formula" in the section  "Calculation for task and group summary rows" in the Custom Field dialog box. 
• Close the Custom Fields dialog box. 

Now Text1 will display any information entered to the Text2 field.

Part 2

Then complete the steps to display the Text1 field on the summary task bars on the Gantt Chart. 

• Open the Bar Styles dialog box (double click anypoint empty on the Gantt Chart), find the bar definition "Summary" on the list, click the Text tab on the lower part and select Text1 field in the box Inside.

Now MS Project will place the content of Text1 inside the summary bars. 

Part 3

Now insert Text1 and Text2 to the task table that you use, and enter DID into the Text2 field for any summary task that you want. 

So Text1 is used to display information on the summary bars and Text2 is used to enter the information.

Note - if you want to do this just for a particular summary task, then double click on that summary bar to

open the Bar Styles dialog box of that summary task and arrange settings only for that particular summary task in the dialog box.

Please also see this article for more information on the options: 

http://www.msptips.com/Formulas/\_Settings%20for%20the%20Custom%20Fields.html

Hi JKSJIM,

I suspect your summary task has no value in the Text1 field.  From what you describe, you have defined a custom field with name "DID", but you have not described populating the field with a value for each task.  You can do this by manual entry or by using a lookup table or a formula.  I suggest you insert a column in your table for "Text1," then see what values are there.