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Creating a Gantt Chart Timeline

Create a Gantt Timeline to seamlessly manage a new project, or even switch one of your existing Task Boards into Gantt Timeline View. Perfect for easily visualizing your upcoming deadlines in an interactive and adaptable chart.

Gantt Chart Timeline is a task board view that is linked to your mind map.

To create a Gantt Timeline:

1. Navigate to the Home page and click +Create new.

Home page with + create new button selected.

 

2. Select the Blank mind map option and name the new mind map.

The new mind map window

 

3. Under the Advanced Options, at the bottom of the window, you can add a description and any people you wish to collaborate with. Once that is done, click Create.

Advanced options selected.

 

4. In the new window, you will have the option to select the central idea box for your mind map.

Selecting the central idea image

 

5. Once that mind map is created, you can add branches or just jump to the task board when clicking on the task icon in the top toolbar.

Tick icon selected in the top toolbar

 

6. This will open a blank task board, where you can change the view to Gantt Timeline in the drop-down menu.

View change from workflow to gantt

 

Switching to Gantt Timeline from another View

You can switch to the Gantt Timeline view at any time from the Canvas or Workflow view.

 

1. Open your task board.

view of the task board

 

2. Click on the current task board view in the top menu to open the drop-down menu.  

Task board view selected in the top menu

 

3. There, you will have the option to switch view to Gantt Timeline.

Gantt timeline selected from the drop-down menu.

 

4. Your Task Board will now be changed to a Gantt Timeline view. If your tasks have both start and due dates, these will be automatically arranged across the timeline.

view of the gantt timeline

 

5. If the task has either just a start date or just a due date, you will just see the task name on the timeline. If the task does not have either a start or due date it will not be added to the timeline ( but will be visible in the task list). 

Task shown on the Gantt timeline

 

6. You can switch back to the other views at any time by using the drop-down menu.

The drop-down menu with the task board views.