Gantt Chart

Use the interactive Gantt Chart to create new assignments and events, adjust and view assignment schedules at a daily hour granularity, and approve, reject, or cancel adjustment requests.

You can also review and manage multiple resource schedules across projects. As a resource manager, you can see all the resource assignments and events and can adjust them to immediately see the impact in the resources' schedules using the interactive Gantt chart.

Open this interactive chart from the Manage Resource Schedule page from the Tasks drawer. If pool security is enabled, you can search for all the resources that you are a pool owner for or create your custom search. This page helps you to view and edit details about resource assignments, change resource schedule, and edit or delete any resource event.

You can right-click to view the details of an assignment. You can:

Drag and drop scheduled assignments and events to extend, shorten or reschedule.
Identify and fix the gaps where a resource is not assigned to project work and maximize resource utilization.
View and track resource assignment nominations to identify potential upcoming assignments.
Approve, reject, or cancel assignment adjustments.

For example, there is an urgent need to assign a technical consultant for a week. The resource manager can view all their technical consultants' schedules in the Gantt chart to see if any have availability for that time. The resource manager sees that there is one resource who scheduled an internal self-led training event during that time. The resource manager knows this training can be rescheduled for any time. The resource manager drags the training to another open week the person is available and creates the new project assignment in its place, directly in the Gantt chart.

Few points to note:

You can’t edit resource schedules in Nominated or Pending Approval status.
When new assignments are created which overlap existing assignments currently in pending approval status, you receive a warning.
You can cancel assignment adjustments only for assignment adjustments that you initiated and approve or reject assignment adjustments that were initiated by a project manager.
To set daily assignment hours for an existing assignment, set the assignment hours for each day in the Daily Assignment view. Once an assignment's hours are saved at the daily level, it cannot be changed to a different schedule method. Assignments with hours that are defined daily can only be adjusted (start date, finish date, and hours) in the Gantt chart in the Manage Resource Schedules page.