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Gantt View for Project Planning

The Gantt view gives you a clear picture of timelines and dependencies.

Written by Dennis Briddigkeit

What is the Gantt View?

The Gantt view displays your project tasks as horizontal bars on a timeline — each bar representing a task's duration. It's the right view when you need to see how tasks relate to each other over time, manage dependencies, or communicate a project schedule to clients and stakeholders.

Use the Gantt view when you need to:

  • Plan and schedule projects with clear start and end dates

  • Visualise and manage dependencies between tasks

  • Share a project timeline with clients, stakeholders, or team members


Accessing the Gantt View

  1. Open any project.

  2. Click on the Timeline tab

  3. Use the view switcher at the top to toggle between Gantt and Compact view.


Key features

Display and Organisation

Each task has its own row in the timeline, visible when start and end dates are set. Lists, parent tasks, and subtasks are clearly structured in a hierarchy. Collapse or expand lists and parent tasks to focus on what's relevant.

Planning and Scheduling

Drag unplanned tasks from the sidebar directly into the timeline to give them a start and end date. This only works for tasks that don't have dates yet.

You can also create dependencies between tasks (finish-to-start): Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can begin. You can also move entire lists or parent tasks by drag and drop — all contained tasks shift together.

Navigation and Export

  • Use the mini map to navigate quickly across the timeline. The current viewport is always visible — click anywhere on it to jump to that section.

  • Vertical scrolling: hold the space bar and drag with the left mouse button.

  • Auto-scrolling: when dragging tasks near the edge of the view, the screen scrolls automatically.

  • Export the Gantt view as SVG or PNG.

Scroll into View - Button

Click the Scroll into View button in a task's sidebar to jump directly to that task in the timeline.

Note

This function is available only in the Gantt view, not the regular timeline.

Auto-Adjust

Enable Auto-Adjust on a parent task to automatically align its start and end dates with its subtasks. The option appears both in the task detail and directly on the task bar in the timeline.

When Auto-Adjust is on, the parent task's dates are driven entirely by its subtasks and cannot be set manually. It's off by default.


Move by Offset

Select multiple tasks in the Gantt view via multi-select, then choose Move by Offset from the three-dot menu. Enter the number of days to shift the selected tasks forward or backward — negative values are supported.


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Are recurring tasks supported in the Gantt view?

Not at the moment. Recurring tasks cannot be displayed in the Gantt view.

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