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New feature: Timeline (Gantt Chart)

Apr 11, 2009 07:41am Steve Ireland Administrator 286 posts	We added an exciting feature to the Activities Dashboard today called “timeline” aka a Gantt Chart. Timeline is your Project Manager’s “big picture” helping them visualize and adjust the schedule of all tasks related to one or multiple projects by simply by dragging and dropping items on the page. Add tasklists and tasks to a project blog page then open the timeline (Workspace, Activities Dashboard, Show timeline for…) to set the schedule and tweak responsibilities etc. About the timeline report…. Tasklist - a tasklist can have a Milestone date which pins the tasklist at this date, a Milestone date has no effect on the tasklist’s tasks Task - a task with no Due date will be shown every day - a Due date is needed to set a Time-Remaining - a task with a Due date set but no Time-Remaining value will start on the left side of the grid and end on its Due date - if the Ignore-Weekends option is selected the Time-Remaining (length of the task) will be calculated using weekdays only Drag and Drop - dragging and dropping a tasklist will change the Due date of all its tasks by the same relative value - if a task has a Due date that date can be changed by dragging and dropping the task on the timeline - if a task has a Due date and Time-Remaining value is set and left side of a task is inside the tasklist’s range the time-remaining value can be adjusted by dragging the left side of the task Image Attachments Click thumbnail to see full-size image

Apr 24, 2009 11:20pm danielmadsen Apprentice 9 posts	Is it possible to see events on the timeline? I’m testing Solve360 to use in my Photography Studio and although i’m using tasks to track pre-production steps, I think the photo session should be an event. Not seeing the most important part of the job makes the timeline pretty useless for me.

Apr 25, 2009 07:18am Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 3952 posts	Thanks for the tip. We might add events to the timeline report at some point. You may have noticed that both tasks and events are both visible on the calendar. The benefit/purpose of the timeline is to organize the time relation of many tasklists and tasks which could otherwise be quite ownerous; for the initial release that was use-case we focused on.

Apr 25, 2010 05:43pm Reto Apprentice 8 posts	danielmadsen - Apr 24, 2009 11:20pm Is it possible to see events on the timeline? I’m testing Solve360 to use in my Photography Studio and although i’m using tasks to track pre-production steps, I think the photo session should be an event. Not seeing the most important part of the job makes the timeline pretty useless for me. It’s the same thing in projects in general. Meetings (e.g. internal + external Milestones) are events. Because you only see the “deadline-day” of a task in the calendar the “workaround” dosn’t work well. Therefor I would really hope you are going to ad this feature soon. Or that you see the duration of a task in the calendar… Thx :-)