A Gantt view draws tasks as bars on a timeline, with arrows between the tasks that depend on each other. Think of a project plan on a wall: a table of tasks on the left, their bars across the weeks on the right, and a line for today. When a task slips, the tasks that wait on it can move with it.

Here is the test: do the tasks have an order, and should a slip push the rest? If yes, Gantt is the view. If the bars need no dependencies, Timeline View is simpler. If the day matters more than the length, use Calendar View.

Example: a Vendor Management solution with a Findings table that has a Dependency field. The Security lead builds a public Gantt view called Remediation plan. "Patch the vendor portal" is the predecessor of "Retest the control", so the retest moves when the patch slips. The week before the audit the lead turns on the critical path, and Spotlight colors the bars by Severity.

The Remediation plan: the task table on the left, bars with dependency arrows on the right, the red today line and the Weeks scale.

The table needs a Dependency field first. That field names the Due Date field the chart reads and holds the scheduling rules; see Dependency Field.

The dialog asks for no field. The new view builds on the table's Dependency field at once and opens on the Weeks scale.

The Create New Gantt View dialog with the name Remediation plan and Public selected.

Select Settings, the first button in the toolbar. The panel is titled Gantt Settings, with a Need help link and a Done button. Every change applies to the chart at once.

Six checkboxes, in the panel's order, with their starting state.

The line under the heading reads "The Gantt View is built based on this field's settings". The control shows the table's Dependency field, Dependency here, with a gear at its right whose tooltip reads Edit Field Settings. The gear opens the field's own settings, where the date field and the scheduling rules live. The view reads them; it does not hold them.

In the field's settings, Gantt Due Date Field names the Due Date field the bars come from. Under Auto-Scheduling, the switch Automatically schedule tasks based on their dependencies moves each task to the next dates its predecessors allow. Apply backward scheduling, available once the first switch is on, schedules from the end date instead. Under Dependency Mode, Standard Mode gives finish-to-start links and Advanced Mode gives all four dependency types with lead and lag. See Dependency Field for each setting.

Gantt Settings open with the six checkboxes, Highlight critical path checked, and the Dependency Field control with its gear.

The view has two halves. The left half is a table with a row per record and these columns: the record's title, Start, End, Duration (such as "21 days") and the owner's avatar. Each row shows its number, a chevron, and on hover the Expand Row icon that opens the record.

The right half is the chart. A date header runs along the top, by week with a letter per day on the Weeks scale, and a red line marks today with the current time. Each row's bar spans the task's start and end, and arrows link predecessors to successors.

At the top right of the chart sit a scale dropdown and a Today button. The dropdown reads Weeks to start; its tooltip is Change date range, and the list offers Days, Weeks and Months. Today scrolls the chart to the current date.

The scale dropdown open at the top right of the chart, showing Days, Weeks and Months, with the Today button beside it.

Left to right: Settings, Sort, Filter, Group, Spotlight, Row Size and Share View. There is no Fields to Display, because the left table's columns are fixed, and no Find.

Public and private views. Full Access members and Solution Managers create public views and save changes to them. Every member creates private views that only they see and edit. See View Panel: create, organize and lock views.

Autosave. The view menu holds an Autosave changes checkbox, checked to start. With it on, a change to the display options, scale, filter or sort is saved to the view for everyone as it is made. Build a public plan on a duplicate first.

Locked views. A locked view keeps its settings fixed. A change made in it lasts only for the session of the member who made it. Records inside it stay editable by whoever has permission. See Locked Views.

Folders and sharing. Folders group public views in the View Panel, and a folder can be limited to selected members; see Folder Permissions. A shared link opens the view read-only for people outside the workspace; see Shared Views.

Read the chart from the today line: what is late sits to its left unfinished, what is next sits to its right. A predecessor is a task that must finish before the current one starts; a successor cannot start until the current task is done. To move a task, drag its bar; to change its length, drag one end. To link two tasks, drag from one bar to the other. Select a row's Expand Row icon to open the record and change its dates or links there.

With auto-scheduling on in the Dependency field, moving the patch task moves the retest task after it. The New Finding button at the right of the view header adds a record; give it dates and a predecessor and its bar joins the chart.

Share the plan read-only with Share View; see Shared Views. Print and export are not offered on a Gantt view; export the records from a Grid view instead.

Select the chevron next to the view name. The view menu lists Rename View, Add Description, Duplicate View, Change View Type, Public View, Delete View and the Autosave changes checkbox.

Spotlight by Severity on the Remediation plan, with Critical bars in one color and the critical path highlighted.

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Last verified 10 Nov 2026.