Note that these are global options, which govern all projects displayed in Project Reporter. Several of the options, such as those for currency and date formats, will override any corresponding settings in .MPD or other project files that are loaded.

These options include:

• Bar Colors for Gantt Chart: You can set the color used to display normal Gantt bars, or critical tasks. Note: To display critical tasks in the special color selected, you must add the Critical field to any views where you want to see critical tasks.

• Date display format: Use this option to choose the appropriate date/month/year order and field separators for your locale. You can also choose whether to include the day of the week or the time of day in displayed date fields.

• Currency display settings: Use this option to choose the appropriate currency symbol, number of digits, and symbol position for your locale. Note that currency values are displayed using whole numbers in textual summaries.

• Show project summary task (ID = 0): Use this option to control whether the "root" task of the project is displayed or not. Displaying this task lets you view summary information about fields such as work and cost for the entire project.

• Show work values in hours (instead of days): Use this option to control the units used to display values for work-related fields. Note that this applies only to the Gantt chart and tabular displays in the lower report frame; Project Reporter's textual summaries always describe work fields in hours.

• Truncate long text fields in Gantt chart: Use this option to control whether long values for text fields are displayed in truncated form (followed by a "..." symbol) in the Gantt chart. This option only applies to the Gantt chart itself, and not to the lower frame of the report window.

  Note: Turning this option off can distort the display of the Gantt chart, by creating vertical gaps between the Gantt bars, if you use text fields (including the Notes field) that contain line breaks. It is recommended that you keep this option turned on, unless all of the text fields you use contain only short text strings.

• Show resource work/cost for current project only: This option is only relevant if you use resource pools. For projects that share resources from a resource pool, setting this option causes resource work and cost values to be recalculated so that they only reflect assignments in the current project (otherwise, they might also reflect assignments in other projects sharing the resource pool). For resource pool projects (identified by Project Reporter as projects that have no tasks, other than the project summary task), this option has no effect, so that resource work and cost values always reflect all projects sharing the resource pool.

  For more information on this option, see Working with subprojects and resource pools.

• Scitor Project Scheduler options: The settings for default hours per day and per week are used to calculate the values of certain fields when loading PS7/PS8 projects.

• Default language for MPX files: For more information on this option, see Using MPX files from non-English software.