Microsoft KB Archive/112999

PRJ4: Recorded Dialog Filter Displays Dialog Box

PSS ID Number: Q112999 Article last modified on 04-06-1995

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WINDOWS | MACINTOSH

= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Project, if you apply a filter that displays a dialog box while the macro recorder is running, the resulting macro displays the filter dialog box instead of applying the filter.

= WORKAROUND =

If you want to use a macro to apply a filter that displays a dialog box, without displaying the dialog box, edit the macro to apply the filter instead of recording the macro.

For example, when you run the following command

FilterApply Name:=“Tas&k Range…”, value1:=“3”, value2:=“6”

the Task Range filter is applied and only tasks between ID 3 and ID 6 are displayed, and the Task Range dialog box does not appear.

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= MORE INFORMATION =

The filters that display a dialog box are Date Range, Resource Group, Should Start By, Task Range, Using Resource, Group, and Resource Range.

When you turn on the macro recorder and apply the Task Range filter to show tasks between ID 3 and ID 6, the following command is recorded:

FilterApply Name:=“Tas&k Range…”

When you run this macro, the Task Range filter dialog box appears.

Steps To Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) In a new project, enter 11 tasks.
 * 2) From the Tools menu, choose Record Macro. Choose the Options button, and under Store Macro In, select the Current Project File option. Choose OK.
 * 3) From the Tools menu, choose Filtered For and then choose Task Range. In the Show Tasks Between ID box, enter 3. In the And ID box, enter 6. Choose OK.
 * 4) From the Tools menu, choose Stop Recorder.
 * 5) From the Tools menu, choose Macros. From the Macro Name list, select the name of the macro you recorded in Step 2 and choose Run.

Note that the macro displays the Task Range dialog box instead of applying the filter you recorded.

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