🚀 The New Gantt Chart is Here – and We Need Your Feedback!

• Weekends & Non-Working Days: We’re working on bringing back the gray-out for weekends and holidays, just like you had in the classic Gantt. This should make it easier to spot non-working days at a glance.
• Ability to sort by predecessors: Sorting by predecessors is coming back, so you’ll be able to organize tasks by their dependencies again.
• Full screen mode: We will be adding the option to fully hide or collapse the table view.

• Public links: You’ll be able to share your Gantt views with public links.
• Density settings: We’re working on letting you adjust how much detail you see in the Gantt.
• Improved critical path.
• More details on tasks in the gantt bar- We want to show more info right on the Gantt bars, so you don’t have to open each task.
• Print to PDF: Printing your gantt to PDF will be possible again.
• Public snapshots.
• Baseline columns.

Lynette Mutungi Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover

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I'd like to have the Alt+Shift shortcut added back into the new Gantt, as it operated in the old Gantt in manual order. I see that there is an Alt+Shift+N shortcut, but it isn't allowing me to drop the new task into the chart in the exact folder and timeframe I want, which was something the old Gantt did.

We are missing weekend/holiday slot highlighter, item roll ups, and the setting button which is very important for us.

There is still no horizontal scroll bar on the Gantt chart itself. I have been asking for this for years. It's way too easy to accidently schedule something by trying to grab and move (click and slide) the Gantt chart in order to scroll or navigate along the dates. I feel that this is unacceptable to not have a scrolling mechanism. On a laptop, sure you can use the touchpad to scroll, but at a desktop with a keyboard and mouse this is not possible.

The Workload Chart has a horizontal scroll; there's no excuse for the Gantt to not have a horizontal scroll. Please add this!

I have an issue with filters when switching between Classic and New Gantt charts.

I have a Classic Gantt chart with this filter:

When I switch to New Gantt it creates two filter groups.

and

The new chart shows projects that are completed, not just the active and deferred projects and I have to go in and manually edit the filter to fix it.
Then when I switch back to Classic chart it forgets all filters and just sets a filter to All Tasks.

This is really unworkable if we keep losing filters when switching. 

I would love to see the the ability to save Grouping setting in Gantt chart as similar to the ability to save Filters.
like below:

Thanks all for your suggestions here, I've sent all of them to Lynette 🙌

Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover

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In the old gantt, there were summaries that showed the time for collapsed group.  In the new Gantt that's missing.  It's a critical feature for us and we can't do without it.  Please add it back.  

Afternoon,

Not being able to filter manually could cause some issues for our team, unless we are able to add sort priorities?

Many thanks!

Lynette Mutungi Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover

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So many good bullets and points from many users here! 

Pros

• Expanded Scalable Gantt View Window w/Columns
• New Fields and Filters are now in sync with other views 
• Love the ability toggle off status color (maybe not new)

Cons (would like to have/missing)

• Grouping only works if single list of tasks, grouping does not work with heirarchal work (project > subfolder) 
• Public Links – For live view
• Snapshots / baselines
• Color Coding – by CFs – instead of status… 
• 
• Creating a master Gantt (or Campaign or Portfolio Gantt) views - are still not quite there - we have lots of clients with complex launches, or congress events where there are a lot of moving parts and pieces (examples here)

Sherrie Besecker - Would it work to locate (or bi-locate) your related projects into one Folder, and look at a Gantt view from that Folder? That's how we get a view of all projects relevant to one specific Customer. 

Hello, i see an option to share external link to new gantt - it works, but there are no filters applied. So its not exactly external link to a "view". Would that be fixed? Do you have any ETA for sorting by predecessors? I would really like to test new gantt further, but its not possible without that sorting implemented. Thanks a lot for your effort, have a nice day!

Jaro

We appreciate the work you're putting into the New Gantt! As our org is maturing and adopting Wrike, we've found that when some users advance a task having a predecessor they inadvertently introduced a Start Constraint to the task. While you do get the vertical bolded line on the left side of the task in the timeline view, we've directed our project teams to display the Start Constraint column in the tabular view for additional visibility. In the New Gantt, I see that you cannot select the Start Constraint field as a visible field in the tabular view. Could that be added as a selection option in the New Gantt (and any other system fields that were only selectable in the Old Gantt)?

I agree with Nate Vail.  I would also love the option of turning off the start constraints all together, if a user didn't want to display it in that way.  

I completely agree with Nate Vail that this is a big oversight. Now you have access to all of the standard fields, but the start constraint is missing. There is no other way to access this field, so you can't edit this.

I have always found the start constraints to be a thorn in my side. I don't like how they automatically are added when you reschedule a task. Start Constraints have a specific purpose, and it doesn't always apply. I should be able to move a task around without automatically adding start constraints and still have the overall elasticity of the schedule workable. If I need a task to have a hard start constraint, I feel that I should make that choice and add a date for this. I am regularly having to delete these constraints because they are automatically added anytime someone moves some tasks around on the schedule.

And with the new Gantt, there is no way of editing this field so there's no way of getting rid of them. You have to go back to the old Gantt to edit them, making the new Gantt almost unusable.

Hello,
I have a question regarding the public link for the Gantt view. It seems that viewers cannot be restricted from seeing the task status colors, which may expose sensitive internal information.
Would it be possible to make the visibility of this information optional?
Thank you for your response.

Hi,

My team is missing 2 points, so far.
1. Snapshot. Our team update tasks decentralized (any one can change/update it´s own tasks). Snapshot is useful to track back those changes to undersand impacts on the project.

2. 1st columm width. The 1st columm smaller width is 256. If you have a small task description (this is our case), such long colum is not usefull.

I hope this helps you gauys (and us) to have a better sollution.

I'm unsure what changed over night, but all the dates seem to have shifted.  I am unable to re-align everything.  

Hello everyone! Quick update on the New Gantt Features

Released

• Public Links: This month, we added public links to the new Gantt Chart. Some of you have already tried it out and helped us spot a couple of bugs (thank you!), which are now fixed.
• Sorting by Predecessors: Cascade sorting is now live, so you can sort by predecessors in the new Gantt. 

Next Up

• Manual Ordering: We’ve heard your feedback about manual ordering. We won’t be deprecating it, and you’ll see it in the next round of releases.
• Public Snapshots: Snapshots are coming soon to the new Gantt, so you’ll be able to share project snapshots publicly.

Planned For Later

• PDF Export
• Critical Path: We’re working on making the critical path clearer and more useful. If you have ideas or requests, please share!
• Start Constraints

Thank you all for your continued feedback and as usual, keep it coming.

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Start Constraints:  I'd love to see these not be automatically created when adjusting task dates. I would like start constraints be a conscious decision to create rather than automatic. I wind up going through and removing most all of them that are automatically created.

I'd also like to see them more accessible for editing. Right now, the only place you can even get to that field is by showing that column in the Gantt view. It doesn't show up in the task fields. I find it odd that you can edit the Predecessors/Dependencies in the task details, but the Start Constraint is not even shown. This doesn't make any sense as they are related to each other. They should both be shown at least, if not editable. 

Hello,

Happy to hear about the planned updates.

Specifically regarding Critical path: I already mentioned in the past that it would be useful to have the free float per task available, and I hope that this is planned. Adding now that it will be great to have this data displayed within the Gantt chart.

I'll explain the reason: we are working on very complex Gantts. Often a group of tasks, which is not marked as a critical path, has free float that is close to zero. So these tasks are practically a critical path for us, but as their free float >0 they are not marked as such. This feature will allow easy spotting of these.

In addition, adding color coding which is not based on status (e.g. color based on specific field, or manual color coding) would be most helpful.

I would like the classic chart feature where the selected row is displayed with a gray horizontal bar to be ported to the new Gantt chart..

I completely agree with Jason Pontius' comment on start constraints!

Hello, here are a few functions I am missing:

Hi, thanks for keeping us abreast of all the updates and changes with the new Gantt view. Overall, I've been pleased especially with the ability to makes changes, as you can in the Table view but also see the changes reflected in the Gantt view. I have just been waiting for the predecessors option to be implemented, so thank you for that. However, not sure what happened but now the dates no longer align and visually, it looks like start dates are one day off and show up on non-working days. Is this a global issue or is it just happening to our view? If so, why and how can this be fixed? Thanks. 

Hey Kyle Martin Karen van Veldhoven. Thanks for sharing the feedback on the misaligned dates of  items on the canvas. This is a bug and we are working on resolving it asap.

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Yes, agreed with Jason Pontius' comment on Start Constraints not being automatically created when adjusting task dates forward which have a predecessor. When you tackle the Planned For Later stuff, I'd like to see a user preference choice to turn off automatic creation of Start Constraints. Another consideration would be to provide a prompt that when a user takes such an action that they're prompted on whether to apply a start constraint or not (though caution should be taken on introducing prompts, as they can quickly become a nuisance).

Jaro Pcola

Very much agree with you, regarding "The ability to create a new task in a specific position by right-clicking a task and choosing 'Create new above/below.' Scrolling to the bottom of the page and then manually dragging each task to the correct spot is not efficient. Creating new tasks via the green plus button also requires too many clicks."

+1 for this feedback!!!

Wish there's an option on the Gantt chart to show a preview (single click for Preview, double-click to open the Task) that is similar to how it works now on Calendar view with the ability to pick which fields are shown on the Preview.

Current Preview feature on Calendar view for reference.