Working with Gantt
Gantt in Celoxis provides a graphical overview of the project schedule. This is useful for the Project Manager to schedule his projects and keep track of them. The different features like the Export, Baseline, etc. help him with preparing and driving the project plan more efficiently.
The Gantt chart features include:
- Creating the WBS i.e your tasks, sub-tasks, milestones with start and finish dates
- Drag - Drop tasks to re-order them in hierarchy
- Add Constraints
- Drag - drop-dependencies
- Expand-collapse the task list
- Assign users on tasks
- Updating task progress
- Printing the Gantt
- View the schedule with different Zoom levels
- Auto Save and Manual Save options
Configuring the Gantt
The first time you access the Interactive Gantt of a project, you are presented with the below options to be configured. This is then remembered per person across all projects in Celoxis as a user preference. You can change this setting from the icon.
| Default new tasks to "Manually Scheduled" | Whenever a new task is created in Celoxis, the scheduling mode i.e., Auto-scheduled or Manually scheduled is dependent on this selection. For more on scheduling modes, refer here |
| Automatically save my changes | Changes made to the project plan are auto saved. If the option is unchecked, you need to manually click on Save everytime you make changes. |
| Show project/task name on the bar | This option if checked, will show the project/task name of the Gantt part (right-part). |
| Show resources on the bar | This option if checked, will show the resource name of the Gantt part (right-part). |
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Add new task | n |
| Edit Task | e |
| Delete Task | Delete key |
| Indent Task i.e create a sub task | I |
| Outdent Task | o |
| Move task Up | u |
| Move Task Down | d |
| Copy Task | Ctrl+C |
| Paste Task | Ctrl+V |
| Cut Task | Ctrl+X |
| Save | Cntrl+S |