With the modern Gantt in new-gen project management, project managers can now visualize the overview of project tasks, sub-tasks, and their status against a linear timescale.

Accessing Gantt

Step 1: Open the “Projects” tab.

Step 2: Select the project which you want to plan.

Step 3: Gantt Chart is available at “Plan” tab under selected Project.

Step 4: Select “Gantt” view from the highlighted drop down shown in the image below.

How to use Gantt for project planning

Filter the Gantt

Customize the Gantt’s contents by filtering it based on assignee's, statuses, priorities, and other attributes.

Task Status in Gantt charts

Often, multiple teammates will work on different parts of a project at the same time. Color codes help you easily identify where you need to focus:

Date roll-up

Date rollup is useful if you want parent tasks to always represent the total duration of all child tasks (sub tasks). 

This means,

1. Whenever child task dates are extended, it will automatically extend the dates of the parent.
2. Parent task’s start date can be before the child task or same as that of the earliest child task
3. Parent task’s end date can be after the last child task or even after that.

NOTE-  Task dates can never be set outside the dates of the project

How to enable date rollup?

This feature can be toggled on or off inside every project from the project settings page. 

To enable it,

1. Go to the Settings page of a project > General settings
2. Under Project Features section, enable Date rollup for Project Tasks
3. Click Confirm on the alert message
4. Click on Save to save the settings.
   
   

Important: If you already have tasks with dates before enabling the feature, when you enable the feature, the system will automatically expand the dates of the parent tasks to cover the entire duration of the child tasks.