Gantt View

• What is Gantt Chart?

• Viewing Gantt Chart

• Accessing Projects via Gantt View

What is Gantt Chart?

Gantt Chart is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. This chart also illustrates project elements - along with their schedule against the project calendar - and summarizes the entire project using the chart. It presents a clear picture of the different phases of the project and also of the various activities that occur in the project's work breakdown structure (WBS).

Advantages:

• Provides bird's eye view of a project and also serves as a one-stop solution for accessing the entire project module with all its projects (provided, the technician is assigned with Project Admin role).

• Effective resource management as project constraints like time, workforce, and amount of work remaining can be viewed and regulated as per situation demands.

• Rescheduling of Milestones/Tasks and project member role change, if such a need arises, can also be done via Gantt Chart.

Viewing Gantt Chart:

You can view Gantt chart of all projects by clicking Gantt View icon on the top right corner of the projects list view page.

Sample Global Gantt view:

Alternatively, you can click the Gantt View icon  on the project details page to view the Gantt chart of the specific project.

Sample project-specific Gantt view:

The default view of Gantt Chart can be customized using Filters or Time Settings.

Filters are used to customize Gantt Chart based on specific activities:

• Specific projects (applicable only for Global Gantt Chart View)

• Specific milestones within a project

• Task status

Time Settings are used to customize Gantt chart based on time-based values

• Scheduled time, actual time, or both.

• Specific date range.

• Zoom chart based on years, months, weeks, days, or hours. The maximum duration allowed for every zoom is as follows:

• Hours - 1 month
• Days - 1 year
• Weeks - 5 years
• Months - 10 years

If no time-based values are selected, the Gantt chart zoom will be auto-adjusted based on the Gantt timeline.

Accessing Projects via Gantt view:

Using the Gantt view, you will have quick access to various projects and the project's milestones and tasks. You can perform the following actions from the Gantt view.

1. Add, edit, or delete milestones from a project
2. Add, edit, or delete tasks from a project or a milestone.
3. Scheduling projects, milestones, and tasks.
4. Reassigning of Milestones/Tasks to Project Members.
5. Configuring Task dependencies- You can mark dependencies between Project tasks, Project tasks and milestone tasks, Tasks across milestones (within a project), Tasks within a project's milestone as applicable.
6. Export as PDF (applicable only for project-specific Gantt charts).

Add, view, edit, or delete tasks, milestones, and projects

The gear-icon on the left-pane against each row, allows you to edit or delete the item or add a new task or a new milestone, as applicable.

You can also view or edit details of an item by hovering over the title the left pane or the corresponding horizontal bar and select an appropriate option on the floating panel.

Changing Schedules

To reschedule the start and end times, simply drag-and-drop the horizontal bar to appropriate time frames.

To increase or decrease the duration, click one end of the bar and drag it to a preferred time.

Configuring Dependencies

In the left pane, click a project and expand its milestones as well. Among the horizontally aligned tasks, click the tail node of the first task to be performed and drag the orange-colored arrow up to the source node of the second task. Then, repeat the process as shown:

Export as PDF 

You can also export the configured Gantt chart by clicking Export as PDF on the top-right corner. This option is available only in the project-specific Gantt view.  A combined maximum of 1000 milestones and tasks is supported for PDF generation.