Saving and Restoring Preferences

The PM Procedure

Saving and Restoring Preferences

When the PM Window is displayed for the first time for a given project, the order and width of the columns in the Table View, the font used for the display, the size of the window, the boundary between the Table and the Gantt Views, and several other attributes of the display are determined by the procedure. As you add activities and edit the Table View, you can change some of these attributes according to your preference. You can also choose a different level of display or set some activity filters (see the "Setting Activity Filters" section).

PROC PM enables you to save the attributes of the display in an indexed data set that is specified in the PROC PM statement, using the PROJECT= option. You can use this data set to save display preferences such as the font, column order, column widths, filters, and so forth. See the "Project Data Set" section for details regarding the format of this data set.

You can save and restore the preferences from the "Project" pull-down menu, which contains the Preferences submenu (Figure 6.26). Note that you have to explicitly save the project preferences using the "Save" selection from this pull-down menu. Closing the PM Window saves only the activity data of the project; it does not automatically save the project preferences. When you restore preferences, the state used is the one that was last saved for the project in the specified preference data set.

Figure 6.26: Preferences Pull-down Menu

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