Opening a Gantt view
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Open the Planning page
Click Planning in the sidebar. Pick the planning you want at the top of the page.
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Select a Gantt view
Click a Gantt view tab above the task list. To create another one, click Add a view and select Gantt chart — each view keeps its own columns, grouping, and scale.
Reading the timeline
Each task with dates appears as a horizontal bar running from its start date to its end date, in the task’s color. Task names show their full project and task path, so tasks with similar names are easy to tell apart. A vertical line marks today, and the timeline extends as you scroll — right into the future, left into the past — with a Today button to jump back to the current date. Hover any bar for a rich tooltip: the full dates, the task name, its project with parents, the owner, the planned hours or days and allocation percentage, plus a hint about what ⌘ does on the chart.Choosing the period
Open the ⋯ menu on the active view tab and use Period to choose how the timeline runs:- Infinite by day or Infinite by week — the endless scrolling timeline, at day or week granularity.
- A fixed week, month, quarter, or year — the chart fits that window to your screen and lists only the tasks that fall inside it (parents and recurring series are kept).
Tasks without dates still appear as rows in the task list — they just have no bar yet. See below for how to schedule them directly on the timeline.
Scheduling tasks on the timeline
- Give a task dates — In the row of a task that has no dates yet, click the timeline to create a bar spanning that cell, or click and drag to draw the exact period you want. Dragging on the row of a task that already has dates scrolls to its bar and flashes it instead.
- Move a task — Drag its bar left or right. The duration is preserved.
- Resize a task — Drag the left or right edge of the bar to change the start or end date.
- Work on several tasks at once — Select several bars, then drag them together to reschedule the whole group in one move, hold ⌘ (Alt on Windows/Linux) while dragging to drop dated copies, or grab any selected bar’s edge to shift every selected bar’s dates by the same amount. Each batch is a single undo step.
Task dependencies
Dependencies sequence tasks: a dependent task is expected to follow the tasks it depends on. Dependency links are drawn between the bars on the timeline, color-matched to the tasks at each end, and they follow the bars live while you drag. Dependencies are managed in the Dependencies column — add it from the Columns menu if your view doesn’t show it.Adding dependencies
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Click the task's Dependencies field
Click the Dependencies cell of the task that should come after. This activates dependency mode.
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Pick its dependencies
Click the task it depends on directly in the list — hold ⌘ to select several — or type the row numbers (from the Row # column) into the field, separated by commas.
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Finish
Click elsewhere or press Esc to leave dependency mode. Arrows now link the bars on the timeline.
How dependent tasks move
The Dependent tasks movement options setting — in the ⋯ menu on the active view tab — controls what happens to dependent tasks when you move a task they depend on:
The setting applies to the whole planning.
Planned time
The Planned column shows each task’s planned work. The small button in the column header toggles the unit (Planned in hours or days). A parent task shows the total planned time of its subtasks. Planned time is what the workload heatmap compares against each person’s capacity, derived from their work schedule minus their absences.Workload heatmap
When the chart is grouped — for example by Owner — each group header row displays workload bars: one bar per period (day or week, following the current Period granularity). Without grouping, a single summary row shows the same information for everyone.- Bar height and shade — The fuller and darker the bar (in the app’s accent color), the closer that group’s planned time is to its available capacity for the period.
- Over capacity — A full bar with a number on it signals overload: on a group row the number is the overflow (in hours or days, following the Planned unit); on the summary row it is the count of overloaded people.
- Hover for details — A tooltip shows the period’s planned effort against capacity (for example
Effort: 32h / Capacity: 40h (80%)) and lists each overloaded person with their own numbers.
Columns
The left panel of the Gantt chart is a configurable table. Open the ⋯ menu on the active view tab and hover over Columns to show or hide columns. Row # and Task Name are always visible — a new Gantt view starts with just those two.
In addition, one column per project category is available, showing the projects from that category linked to each task.
Row grouping
Open the ⋯ menu on the active view tab and hover over Group by to restructure the list without changing any task data:- Owner — One group per task owner
- Status — One group per status
- Project categories — Group by a level of any project category
- Tag categories — Group by a level of any tag category
Saved views
The tabs above the task list are saved views. Each Gantt view stores its own Period, Columns, and Group by settings, plus its filters.- Create — Click Add a view, then Gantt chart.
- Rename — Double-click the tab (or long-press it on a touch screen) and type the new name, or use Rename in the tab’s ⋯ menu.
- Duplicate or delete — Use Duplicate and Delete in the ⋯ menu. The last remaining view cannot be deleted.
Filtering
Use the Filters button to narrow the chart — by task, status, owner, potential owner, project, or tags — with the active filter count shown on the button. Filters can be switched off and back on without losing them: the button toggles them rather than clearing them.Keyboard navigation
With the Gantt chart focused, you can work without the mouse:Keyboard navigation works when the chart has focus. Click anywhere in the task list first if the keys are not responding.
Related content
Tasks
What tasks are in Beebole — creating, importing, assigning, and tracking time on them.
Kanban board
Move the same tasks through status columns with drag and drop.
Work schedules
Define the working hours that determine each person’s capacity in the heatmap.
Frequently asked questions
Does Beebole's Gantt chart have a month view?
Does Beebole's Gantt chart have a month view?
No. The Gantt timeline runs Infinite by day or Infinite by week, selected under Period in the view tab’s menu — the week granularity is the one to use for a long-range overview. The same menu can also lock the view to a fixed week, month, quarter, or year fitted to your screen.
How do I create a dependency between two tasks?
How do I create a dependency between two tasks?
Click the Dependencies cell of the task that should come second, then click the task it depends on (hold ⌘ to pick several) or type its row number. Press Esc to finish. Beebole draws an arrow between the bars.
What happens to dependent tasks when I move their predecessor?
What happens to dependent tasks when I move their predecessor?
It depends on the category’s Dependent tasks movement options, set from the Dependencies column header: Free leaves dependents in place, Pushing pushes them later when the predecessor would overlap them, and Together moves them along with it.
Can I have several Gantt views with different columns?
Can I have several Gantt views with different columns?
Yes. Click Add a view and select Gantt chart. Each saved view in Beebole keeps its own column selection, grouping, scale, and filters, so you can switch between setups without reconfiguring anything.
Do changes in the Gantt chart affect the Kanban board?
Do changes in the Gantt chart affect the Kanban board?
Yes. Both views display the same tasks from the same category. Dates set on the Gantt timeline, status changes, and renames are immediately visible on the Kanban board, and vice versa.