Print Activity Usage, Role Usage, or Resource Usage Histogram

You can print the Activity Usage, Resource Usage, or Role Usage histograms for a time-phased view of your activity, resource, or role usage. The data in the histogram is an aggregated display of usage data for roles, resources, or activities.

To print the Activity Usage, Role Usage, or Resource usage histogram:

  1. Navigate to the project Activities page
  2. In the Activities page, in the Open menu, select Current Schedule.
  3. In the detail window, in the activity details/project usage menu select Project Usage, and then select the Activity Usage, Resource Usage, or the Role Usage tab.
  4. Before viewing your usage data, configure the resource and usage settings or configure the activity usage settings to ensure the appropriate information is displayed, such as units or costs, bars and curves, legend details, and spreadsheet formatting.
  5. When printing Resource Usage or Role Usage data, select one or more resources or roles from the list whose data you want to display.
  6. In the detail window toolbar, select Not Stacked Histogram or Stacked Histogram.

    Note: The Stacked Histogram option is only available when printing Resource or Role Usage histograms.

  7. Configure the page view according to your needs, and then select Print to open the Print Options panel.
  8. In the Settings panel, configure the following page-level options:
    • Paper Size: Select a standard paper size or enter custom print dimensions.
    • Orientation: Select a Landscape or Portrait page orientation.
    • Margins: select the length of the top, left, right, and bottom margins of the layout.

      Note: You can also click and drag the borders in the print preview to adjust each margin.

    • Show Watermark: Select this option, and then enter text to appear as a watermark on each page.
    • Pages: Print all pages or a specific range of pages.
  9. To modify the layout of the content section, hover over the print preview, and select Edit Content:
    • In the Settings panel, select the settings that you want to appear in the chart.
    • On the Timescale tab, select a timescale interval, and then select a start and finish date for the timescale. When Reporting Period is selected as the timescale interval you can designate the use of custom labels for the reporting period by selecting Custom label only.

      Note: The Reporting Period timescale is only available in a Project view.

    • Select Use rolling dates to configure rolling start and end dates. Enter a value in Timescale units per page to define the number of timescale units displayed on each page of the chart.

      Note: The Edit Content option is only available when printing Activity Usage.

  10. Select Return to Preview to exit the edit mode.
  11. To modify the print header or footer settings, hover over the print preview, and select Edit Header or Edit Footer.
  12. In edit mode, use the floating toolbar to configure the following header and footer options:
    • Apply bold, italics, or underline formatting, and change the size and color of text.
    • Alignment: Align each line of text to the left, center, or right side of a section.
    • Insert Link: Add link text and a URL. Choose to open the link in a new browser tab or window, or open the link in the current browser tab.
    • Add Image: Insert the company logo, the image for the current project, or the image for the current workspace.
    • Add Revision Box: Add a revision box to the selected section. To edit the content in the revision box, select Open Revision Box Editor from the Settings panel. In the Revisions dialog box, you can enter text, rearrange and resize columns, and modify the alignment of text in the columns. Select Add to add more rows to the table. Deselect the Print checkbox for a row if you do not want that row to be printed on the PDF (the row is still saved in the Revisions dialog box). When you are finished editing the Revision Box, select Save.
      You can only have one unique revision box per named view. If you add multiple revision boxes to the printout, they will all have the same configuration.

      Note: The Revision Box editor is not available for Resource Usage or Role usage printing.

    • Add Field: Add field variables to the selected section.

      Note: Field variable text that is only partially formatted may not display properly. Ensure the entire variable is formatted correctly.

    • Toggle Dividers: Toggle the display of section divider lines in the printout.
    • Sections: Display up to five separate sections in the header or footer.
  13. In the Settings panel, configure separate options to show the header and footer on all pages, only the first page, or only the last page of the print layout.
  14. Select Return to Preview to exit the edit mode.
  15. In the thumbnail selector, select individual page thumbnails to review the order, number, and appearance of the pages in the print layout. Continue to modify print settings according to your needs.
  16. To reset your selection to the default settings, select Restore Default Settings.
  17. When you are finished, select Print to print the layout to a PDF file. You can then view the layout or print it to a physical format.

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