β Gantt Chart

The β Gantt Chart is a new and improved Gantt chart. This will be displayed alongside the current Gantt chart whilst it is still in beta, but once complete will supersede the old one.

The left-hand side of the page shows a table of all Summary tasks, Milestones and Tasks added to date whilst the righthand side shows Summary task as ‘blue-bar with ends’, Milestones as ‘diamonds’ and Tasks as bars with the task's name and percent completed displayed inside them.

Dependencies as displayed as arrows between the source task/milestone and the dependent task/milestone. The ‘ends’ of Summary task bar are derived from ‘start date’ and ‘end date’ of underneath rows if any otherwise plan start and end dates. The colour of the Milestone diamond and Task bar corresponds to the Delivery Status of that Milestone or Task.

The table columns have two areas, the fixed columns, which will display regardless of horizontal scroll on the table, and the main area, which scroll as expected. Right clicking a column header will display a context menu, where you can add the column to the fixed column area, sort the column, or hide the column. Hidden columns can be reshown by using the column context menu on any other and clicking on the columns option at the top of the context menu. This will bring up a list of all the available columns and they can be toggled with the checkboxes next to them.

The panel between the table and the plan tab buttons has many buttons to change the display of the Gantt. You can use the export button to export it to xlsx, csv or pdf file types. There are buttons to indent and undent a row, which will change the above row into a summary task if it is not already. You can expand and collapse all summary tasks. Decrease the timeframe on the Gantt chart to a much larger 5 year block scope, or increase it to half hour segments. Then you can reset the view, which will reset the columns to display originally visible ones, place the fixed columns back in, set the column sizes, etc. Additionally, on the right side of the panel, there are undo and redo buttons, which can be used if an action is done accidently.

Tasks can be dragged vertically on the left and right side, which will reorder them based on where you finally put them. Tasks and Milestones can also be dragged horizontally on the right pane, which will change their schedule to be on the date(s) that you placed them onto. Additionally, tasks can have their start and end dates dragged back and forwards, to extend or reduce the length of the task.