Gantt (Beta) Buttons, Controls and Fields

Changes the chart view in various increments between hours to the left and years to the right. The default view is weekly.

The zoom level affects printing. For more information about printing, see Printing Gantt (Beta) Charts.

Work Breakdown Structure. Identifies the hierarchy of the project tasks within a project. This is generated automatically from an existing project hierarchy, and updated automatically as you change the hierarchy. WBS is useful for reporting on project tasks and their data.

You can enter any name up to a maximum of 80 characters.

The date when the project or task will start.

You can change the start date of tasks by editing this field, or by moving or stretching the task bar in the Gantt chart.

The date when the project or task will end.

You can change the end date of tasks by editing this field, or by moving or stretching the task bar in the Gantt chart.

The duration of the task. Non-working time, such as Saturdays and Sundays is currently included in the duration.

The default duration is one day. Valid units are days or hours, which you can enter as d, day or days, and h, hour or hours.

The estimated hours for the project task.

You can only edit the estimated hours for child tasks. Hours for child tasks are rolled up to their parent task, and the total hours are rolled up to the project.

A read-only field for the hours saved, submitted or approved on timecards for a task.

Hours for child tasks are rolled up to their parent task, and the total hours are rolled up to the project.

Relationship handles, available on parent or child project tasks.

If you want a project task to be dependent on another project task, you can add a link between the task bars in the Gantt Chart. For example, you might want a task to start only when another task has finished.

You can add dependencies between tasks, or between parent tasks and another parent's children. You cannot add dependencies between a parent task and its own children.

A dependency link between tasks.

Double-click this to open the Dependency Editor, where you can change the type of dependency and the lagThis term is either a delay or an overlap between tasks in a dependency relationship. According to the dependency type, lag is added (or subtracted when a negative value) to the start or end time of the successor task. between the project tasks, or delete the link. See Dependency Editor Buttons and Fields.

Percentage allocation of resources or roles to a project task. For example, a 60%/40% allocation split between two resources assigned to the project task.

The name of the assignment or held resource request for the resource:

• If there is only one, it will be selected automatically.
• If there is more than one, select one from the drop-down list.
• If a resource request is linked to an assignment, only the assignment is displayed.
• For external resources, this field shows External.
• If the resource is not linked to any assignments or held resource requests, the field shows No links.