The Activity Sheet in Unifier supports the manual Activity Sheets in order to define project schedules. To be able to view the activities and the relationship between the activities and their associated resources that define the project schedule, Unifier provides the option to view the Gantt chart (bar chart) in the manual Activity Sheets.
The Gantt chart provides a representation all of the activities of the project in a time-line view, the amount of time each activity is expected to take, the time-frame in which an individual task has to be completed, and the relationship between various activities.
The Gantt chart can be launched from both the System Activity Sheet and the Manual Activity Sheet (the Gantt option on the toolbar).
Once you click Gantt, the right-pane will show the Gantt representation of the project schedules, and you will be able to view and perform the following functions:
- Show project schedules activities in a Gantt mode.
- Zoom in or zoom out to view the details of the activities and links.
- Show dependencies between activities (predecessors and so forth).
- Show assigned resources by category.
- Show percent (%) complete for each activity to monitor the progress of the activities.
- Allow changing the activity durations by dragging the bars.
- Allow moving activities from one time-frame to another (modifying start and end dates at the same time).
- Allow critical path calculation and viewing activities in the critical path.
- Show tooltips for the activity, link, and milestones.
Increasing duration of activities and moving activities
In Gantt view, you can move the activities (tasks) that do not start ahead of the schedule. The selected activity start and finish dates are updated along with duration. When you select the schedule option in the toolbar, the successor activities start and finish date will be updated along with the current updated activity according to the new data date, and the Gantt view will reflect the changes in activity start and finish dates. The tooltip will show the updated start and finish dates, duration, and so forth upon selecting the activities.
You can increase or decrease the duration of the activity using drag-and-drop of the selected activity. In this scenario, the duration and the Finish Date values will be updated accordingly, for the selected activity.
The following shows the basic keyboard shortcuts for moving activities:
- Tab: Tab to the Gantt view and use the arrow keys to navigate to the task you want to move. You can select multiple tasks and move them together.
- Ctrl + m: Click "Ctrl + m" to enter into the move mode. Use the left arrow and the right arrow keys to move the activities (tasks) horizontally, and use the up arrow and so keys to move the task(s) to different rows.
- Enter: Enter to finalize the move and exit move mode, or Esc to cancel and exit move mode
To perform task resize, use:
- Alt + s
- Alt + e