The Date Range tab controls the time period over which the Action List over Time shows therefore controlling the number of pages in the view.

The time period (or date width) of the Action List over Time is not the same as that of the Timeline. The view defaults to show the next 8 weeks with 4 weeks to a page, so it starts off two pages wide and as many pages deep as is needed to show the all the Actions, Meetings and Milestones in that time period. The maximum width of the Action List over Time is constrained to be:

• With 4 weeks to a page, the maximum width is 13 pages (i.e. 52 weeks or a year)
• With 1 week to page, the maximum width is 12 pages (i.e. approx 3 months)

The date range dialogue allows you to set the date range for display in the Action List over time in two ways:

• Selecting the start and end dates using the calendars;
• Importing the date range from the timeline by clicking on the "Import" button. Note: if the date range in the Timeline view is greater than the maximum width in the Action List over Time, then the full Timeline date range will not be displayed.

The timescale rows tab allows you to select the format for the date rows that are displayed at the top of each of the Action List over Time view pages. Formats can be set separately for the dates in 4 week mode vs 5 or 7 day display mode:

The prefix section lets you pick a prefix for the date format. The available options are:

• w/c (date); for week commencing followed by the date.
• w.c. (date): for week commencing – followed by the date
• Week (number): for “Week” followed by the number of the week in the year
• W: for “W” followed by the number of the week in the year
• w.e. (date): for week ending followed by the date
• w/e. (date): for week ending followed by the date
• (date): no prefix – just the date

The Working Week tab allows you choose:

• Which days are workdays;
• Which day the week starts on;
• Whether you want the non-working days (typically the weekend) to appear shaded on the Action List over Time

Note: Changes to Working week days and Week start day will apply across all views

The Display Mode tab contains the most important controls over the Action List over Time view allowing you to choose what to display and how it gets grouped and displayed.

The Display Mode section lets you choose the time period per page. There are three options:

1. 4 weeks to a page – where each week is a column on the page;
2. 5 days to a page – where each day is a column on the page, and the weekend is a very narrow column;
3. 7 days to a page – where each day is a column on the page.

Note: you can also select these options from the Action List over Time view toolbar button

In the “Group Information by” section, you can choose:

• Whether the Meetings, Milestones and Actions in the Action List over Time are grouped and displayed by Activity Group or by Contact (Responsibility)
• When displaying the information by Activity Group, whether or not to show the Activity Group arrows, and whether the colour in the left hand column should match the arrows and their colour on the timeline, or remain dark blue.

The "Vertical Ordering" section allows you to choose the order in which the Activity Groups or Contacts get displayed. For Activity Groups there are four options:

• As on the Timeline: this displays the Activity Groups in the order they appear on the timeline working left to right, and then down a row, and so on
• By Activity Group start date
• By Activity Group end date
• Alphabetically (A-Z, or Z-A)

For Contacts (Responsibility) you can only select Alphabetical ordering (A-Z, or Z-A)

The Description Font dialogue allows you to set the font, font style and font size for the description column of

ALL

Meetings, Milestones and Actions in the Action List over Time.

This allows you to shrink / expand the font size easily to show more / less on the page, and also gives the page a uniform look. It overrides in this view any specific font you may have selected for a Meeting, Milestone or Action in the Action List or Activity Group Detail (whilst leaving those selections unchanged in those views).

The fonts for the left hand column (in blue) can be set using the Group Fonts tab in this same dialogue – see below.

The Group Font tab allows you to set the font, font style and font size for the column in the Action List over Time containing either the Activity Group names or the Contact Names. This column is the blue column on the left hand side of each page in the Action List over Time.

For information about changing the font of the Description text of each of the Meetings, Milestones and Actions in the Action List over Time see the Description Font tab above.

The date format tab allows you to set a format for the dates that appear within the text of the Meetings, Milestones and Actions in the Action List over Time. e.g. you could choose to display Sunday 20th January as "Sun 20 Jan" or "20/01" or etc.

You can also select your locale so that you can get USA or UK date format options.