Gantt charts illustrate project schedules according to the start and end dates of milestones and tasks. To access your project's Gantt chart, navigate to the Project Management > Gantt Chart.
Viewing Gantt charts
To view all milestones, tasks lists, and tasks in a Gantt chart navigate to Project Management > Gantt Chart.
You can also drill down into a specific milestone or task lists and view a Gantt chart under the more menu.
Gantt chart overview
The following list overviews the available features in the Gantt chart:
- Add/create a task from the gantt chart view mode.
- Select Collapse all or Expand all to consolidate or view all task lists and tasks at once.
- Select the zoom slider to zoom in and out of your Gantt and the Zoom to fit button to fit the graph to your browser's current resolution.
- View the scheduled timeline of a milestone, signified by the diamond within a circle icon.
- View the scheduled timeline of a task list, signified by the chart icon. Task lists are listed as subcategories of either milestones or the Task Lists w/o Milestones folder.
- View the scheduled timeline of a task, signified by a check mark. Overdue tasks are represented by a check mark and completed tasks are crossed out. Tasks are listed as subcategories of task lists.
7. Right click to sort columns by ascending or descending order or uncheck a column to remove it altogether. *Note: You can also sort by the due date column as well.
- Track the progress of a scheduled milestone.
- Track the progress of a scheduled task list.
- Track the progress of a scheduled task.
- View task dependencies, represented by an arrow.
.Add/view Gantt Items via the settings menu
You can also change the settings for your Gantt Chart view.
Change the start date and due date of a milestone, tasklist, or task by double clicking the date area in the gantt list view. You can also add/remove the assignee by double clicking the cell.
Right-click on a task for the option to view the task, edit the task, add a new task to the task list, to change the status of the task, or to delete the task.
Interacting with Gantt charts
You can now edit the schedule of your projects by interacting with Gantt charts. To interact with the Gantt chart, and to make the desired changes by dragging the milestone and task bars or new dependencies with your cursor, changes are auto saved.
When editing Gantt charts, click and drag the entire bar to change the start and due date of a milestone, tasklist, or task but maintain the duration of these items. Or click and drag the edges of the bar to change the duration of the milestone, tasklist, or task and either the start or due date.
To create new dependencies, hover your cursor over the edge of any task or milestone bar until a circle appears, click the circle and drag the dependency line to the circle associated with the dependent task or milestone bar. To shift dependent tasks and milestones, check the box to Cascade Changes before editing.
Add a new column
You have default columns listed in the Gantt chart, you can now add a new column by scrolling to the end of the columns, left click to open the drop down of options you would like to add as a new column, system and custom fields will be displayed in this drop down.
Filter option for columns:
You can now filter on any of the columns and narrow down your Gantt chart view. Click the apply filter option to open the module.
Select from the options given and enter a value (name of a task) and hit enter to view
Print to PDF or export to Excel
You can now print to PDF or export to Excel