Use the Activity Gantt chart to view the progression and relationships of activities or projects on a timeline.
Gantt chart bars and activity dates or durations
You can easily update dates and durations by resizing or moving current bars in a Gantt. When you change bar positions in a Gantt, the start and finish date columns update to reflect the new bar position. After moving a Gantt bar, when you save your changes, the remaining duration is recalculated based on the new dates and the activity or project calendar. Because this calendar is applied when you save, if you move but do not resize a Gantt bar, the duration might shorten or lengthen based on the non-work time of the calendar.
Note: If you click the center of a bar and drag it along the timescale, you will be prompted to add a Start On or After constraint. In the Gantt chart, you can impose only a Start On or After constraint.
Customizing the Gantt chart
You can change the progress line options or the timescale for the Gantt chart in the Manage Views dialog box.
Viewing the Gantt chart
In the Gantt chart, a vertical blue line represents the current data date for the project. Vertical sightlines appear at each minor increment (bottom) of the timescale. The timescale background is shaded to indicate non-work time based on the global default calendar.
Activity highlight
To quickly locate the activities you need to update, you can use the Progress Spotlight feature, which highlights all activities that should have progressed during a specific time period. This time period is defined by the smallest increment of the current timescale since the last data date. For example, if the current timescale is set to Month/Week, Progress Spotlight highlights all activities that should have progressed during the week since the data date.