Planning and Gantt

The Planning tab draws the project over time: each phase and sub-phase is a row, and its tasks go underneath. The bars are placed on a weekly calendar so that you can see at a glance what overlaps, what comes first and how much progress has been made.

It is a read-only view: nothing is edited from the chart. Dates are changed where they are created (see below).

How to read it

• Left column (“Name”): the hierarchy. Each row carries its name and, below it in grey, the short date range (day/month) or “—” if it has no dates. Phases and sub-phases (up to three levels) have an arrow to collapse and expand.
• Right area: the calendar, in weeks, with a highlighted mark for today. If the project is long, the area scrolls horizontally inside its box.
• Bars: a phase's bar has end caps and a stronger tone than a task's. The more intensely coloured fill is the progress %: the task's own, or the phase's, calculated from everything it contains (see Phases).
• Tooltip: when you hover over a bar, its name, its dates and “{progress}% · {logged hours} / {estimated hours} h” appear (for example “45% · 18 / 40 h”). If the task has no estimate, instead of the estimated hours you see “not estimated”.

Collapse and expand

Click a phase's arrow (Collapse phase / Expand phase) to hide or show its sub-phases and tasks. Collapsing a phase collapses everything inside it. The collapsed state is not saved: on reload everything is expanded again.

Scale and zoom

The scale is fixed: weekly view. There is no day/month selector and no zoom. To see another stretch, scroll horizontally.

Where the dates come from

Rules for incomplete cases:

• If a phase has no planned dates but its tasks or sub-phases do, the phase's bar spans from the earliest to the latest date of everything it contains (at any depth). If only one of the two dates is missing, it is filled in using the same criterion.
• If a phase does have its planned dates, those are used even if its tasks fall outside them: the phase's bar is not stretched to cover them.
• If the start falls on the same day as the end or after it, the bar starts one day earlier so that it can be drawn.
• A task with no due date and a phase with no dates of its own or in its content have no bar: they appear in the list with “—”. Rows are never hidden.
• Below the chart, a note summarises how many: “2 phases and 3 tasks without dates: shown in the list with no bar on the calendar.” (or phases only, or tasks only).

If the project has no phases at all you see “There are no phases in this project yet. Add a phase to start planning.”. Phases are created from the project's phases tab, not from here.

What can be edited and what cannot

Nothing is edited on the chart: bars cannot be dragged or resized, progress cannot be changed with the mouse and there are no create buttons. To change the planning:

When you return to the tab, the chart reflects the changes.

Dependencies

Dependencies between tasks are not drawn on the chart: there are no arrows between bars. They are viewed and managed on each task's page.

Who can do what

Related topics

• Phases and sub-phases
• Tasks
• Assignees, dependencies, checklist and deliverables
• Project summary