The Gantt view

The Gantt lays the project along a timeline: one bar per task, as long as the days it takes. It is the view for deadlines, overlaps and whatever has fallen behind.

How to read it

On the left, the task list grouped by list, with collapsible groups so you can put aside whatever you are not looking at. On the right, the bars over the grid of days.

• The bar colour is the status: completed, in progress, scheduled or overdue. The legend sits in the footer.
• The coloured dot next to a task name is its label, which in practice means the client.
• The vertical line marks today. Any bar crossing it without being finished is a delay, not a forecast.
• Hovering a bar shows its title, its status and how many days it spans.

Up top you get day, week and month zoom, a button to jump back to today, and month navigation. Month zoom is for walking a client through the quarter; day zoom is for wrestling with one specific week.

Adjusting dates

Drag a bar to move the whole task to different dates. Drag its right edge to change how long it lasts. It is the fast way to reshuffle a whole week without opening a single card.

What you will not see here

Only cards that have dates show up. The header says so plainly: it counts how many dated tasks there are out of the project total.

The Gantt does not open a card's detail either: to touch a description, an attachment or a comment, go back to Kanban or List. The footer does let you export to CSV.

Gantt or Calendar

Pick Gantt when duration is the point: a shoot that runs three days, a production that eats two weeks, two projects that collide. Pick Calendar when the day is the point: what ships on Thursday and how much of it lands on each person.

Continue with The calendar view.