Summary tasks, Updating a task, Sample Plan

Plan User Manual

Summary tasks

Now enter a summary task for tasks 1 and 2.

Ensure that task 1 is current and press shift-enter to insert a new task. The enter key edits the current task, or creates a new task if no task is current, and shift-enter inserts a new task immediately above the current task. Set the description to “Summary task”. Leave all the other fields unchanged. A new task will be inserted at the top of the list.

At the moment all the tasks are normal tasks and we need to make task 1 and 2 sub-tasks of the new task. To do this, make task 1 current and press the > key (you will need to use the shift key for this). This will indent task 1. The < key could be used to un-indent a task.

Task 1 is now a sub-task and the summary task has been changed from a normal task into a summary task. Repeat this so that task 2 is also a sub-task.

The view below should be shown.

Updating a task

To demonstrate how Plan automatically recalculates tasks, edit task 1 so that the work is 5days. This is done by making task 1 current and pressing enter. When edited, task 1, 2 and the summary task will be recalculated automatically.

Sample Plan

A sample project plan (PlanSample.pln) will be installed with Plan to the Documents folder which can be used to experiment with Plan’s features.

Transferring data between Plan and your desktop PC

Plan for Windows

There is a companion desktop PC version of Plan called “Plan for Windows”. You can use Plan for Windows on your desktop PC and transfer these files to/from your Communicator for use with Plan. The desktop and the Communicator versions both share the same PLN file format.

The desktop “Plan for Windows” can also directly read and write Microsoft Project files. MPP, MPD and MPX files may be opened and saved into Plan format. Plan files may also be converted back to Microsoft Project MPD or MPX format. Therefore the desktop version can be used as a means to convert between Microsoft Project and PLN format for use with the Communicator version of Plan.

Optional Nokia PC Suite Plug-in

Twiddlebit provide an optional PC based converter. This converter integrates with the Nokia PC Suite 2.11 for 9210/9210i. Using this, Microsoft Project MPP, MPD and MPX files can

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