5.11. Editing an entire subtree

For most attributes of a project, the attribute is relevant only to a task, and not to a superproject. Therefore, the corresponding cell in the Attribute table is not editable for a superproject. For some attributes, however, a mechanism is provided, by which the user can edit the attribute for the superproject as a convenient way of changing the attribute for its entire subtree of tasks. The attributes for which this feature is available are Assigned To, Percent Complete, Level Resources, Splittable and Squeezable.

Editing the Assigned To value is discussed in this section.

Editing the Percent Complete value is discussed in this section.

Editing the remaining three attributes is quite similar and we discuss only Splittable here, as an example. To edit the splittable value for an entire subtree of tasks, double click the Splittable column for the superproject at the root of the subtree: