This is done on the format tab (timeline tools) from within a timeline. To start to clean up the view and provide some insight into our schedule, I’ll begin by adding a few additional timelines to the view. The view is messy, and we can’t really tell what exactly is going on, as there are a lot of concurrent activities and “phases.” You can see there are many tasks and milestones in the schedule that will appear in the timeline. I then condensed the outline view to level 2 and added all tasks to the timeline. In the example below, I’ve started with a PMBOK-compliant project management template (which can be found in your out-of-the-box templates) on the “new” project page.
(You can also save specific timeline views and pick them from your Timeline view menu here as well, but we’ll save that info for a future article.)
If you didn’t know, you can access the timeline from the View tab of the ribbon in the split view section. This software is now available to Office 365 subscribers with Project Pro for Office 365 licenses. NOTE! This blog post introduces features that are included in Microsoft Project 2016 Preview. We’re happy to announce that with the release of Microsoft Project 2016 Preview, we have much more control of our timeline views! Before now it was impossible using the native project views and tools. We often encounter project managers and stakeholders who need more customization to their timeline views.