One of available views in Activity Center is the Gantt View. It offers an easy way to visualize your projects and activities as bars on a time line in relation to each other. Useful features of the Gantt view include:

• Dependencies are shown as arrows connecting dependent activities.
• Both project and activity progress is shown as a darker shade of the color the length proportional to the respective completion rate (progress value). The value of progress in per cent is shown in parentheses next to the name.
• Project and top level activities are marked with a line running along the top side of the bars representing them.
• Critical activities can be filtered out thus showing you the critical path for a project.

Enabling Gantt view

To enable Gantt view:

1. Go to Activity Center.
2. Click the Gantt view tab.

Granularity

Gantt view comes in four granularity settings:

1. Click 'Gantt view' to enable the view.
2. Click the granularity selector.
3. Choose one of the available settings:
• Daily;
• Weekly;
• Monthly;
• Yearly

Showing critical path

Critical path activities are marked with a thick red line on top and have a pinky coloring. Like so:

To display the critical path:

1. Click 'Gantt view' to enable the view.
2. Click More Actions ().
3. Click the Show critical path toggle to turn it on.

Showing baseline

Baseline is shown as a thick black line running along the bottom side of projects and activities. Like so:

To show baselines:

1. Click 'Gantt view' to enable the view.
2. Click More Actions ().
3. Click the Show baseline toggle to turn it on.

Gantt view conventions

To make it easier for you to work with the Gantt view, the following key conventions are used to help identify various objects as they are displayed on the Gantt:

1. The current day/week/month/year are identified by sky-blue print.

2. Projects and activities with duration only are moved to the left end of the project. Their progress, if specified, is indicated only as a numerical value in brackets beneath the graphical representation after the name.

3. Projects and activities with start date or end date only are displayed as shown below. with the name followed by the value of progress in brackets beneath. The progress is not shown graphically, only numerical value is given in brackets.

4. The progress of a project or activity is shown as a darker portion of its base color (azure for projects, emerald green for activities, beige for milestones). The value of the progress is given in square brackets beneath the object next to its name.

5. Projects with activities, and activities with sub-activities are shown with a thick line running along their top side as a visual aid to tell them apart from 'single' projects and activities.

6. The color used for milestones is beige. Accordingly, the progress of a milestone is shown as a dark beige portion starting off from the left-hand edge which length is the same percentage of the total length of the bar as the progress of the milestone.

7. When the mouse pointer is close enough to a project or activity on the Gantt, two 'handles' appear on both of its sides. These can be used to change its start or end date by drag-and-dropping or move the entire bar along the timeline. However, if there are restrictions in place, such as dependency, sub-activity, etc., drag-and-dropping may not take effect. In such a case, try to identify a possible reason for any 'unexpected' behavior before reporting it as a bug.

8. Dependencies are shown as arrows connecting start and end dates in accordance with the type of dependency. You can set a dependency using the 'handles'.

Interactive features of the Gantt view

The Gantt view in Activity Center is interactive insofar as it allows you to build dependencies and change the position of projects and activities on the time line. and relative to each other.

To move a project/activity to another position on the time line:

1. Place the mouse pointer in the middle of the activity to be moved, press and hold the button (it changes to ).
2. Drag the bar representing the activity to a new location without releasing the left button.
3. Release the button to "drop" the activity at the new location.

To change the start date or end date of an activity:

1. Place the mouse pointer at the left- or right-hand extremity of the activity you want modified until it changes its shape to .
2. Drag the edge to the desired date on the time line holding down the left button.
3. Release the button.

To set a dependency between two activities:

You can set dependencies between activities both within the same project and ones belonging to different projects (inter-project dependency).

You must have the permission to edit activities in both projects you would like to link with a dependency.

1. Place the mouse pointer on the activity you want to make dependent on another until two 'handles' appear on both ends ().
2. Drag one of the handles to the start or the end of the target activity.
   • Option 1: Activity 1 Start -> Activity 2 Start. Result: Dependency Start to Start ('Activity 2 starts when Act 2 starts')
   • Option 2: Activity 1 Start -> Activity 2 End. Result: Dependency Start to Finish ('Activity 2 finishes when Act 2 starts')
   • Option 3: Activity 1 End -> Activity 2 Start. Result: Dependency Finish to Start ('Activity 2 starts when Act 2 finishes')
   • If a dependency of the intended type can be set, you will see a handle in a black circle linked with a dashed line. Releasing the button now will set a dependency.
   • If a dependency of the intended type CANNOT be set, you will see a warning message about the same.
3. The dependency will be represented by a polygonal arrow with its end connecting to the dependent activity. See Manage dependencies to learn more.

1. Dependency can be set

2. Dependency cannot be set 

Edit/remove dependency

To edit/remove dependency:

1. Click the polygonal arrow that represents the dependency you want to edit/remove.The dependency editing screen will appear.
2. To edit the dependency, make changes as required and click 'Save'; or
3. To remove it, click 'Remove dependency'.