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Tools to adjust and filter the Gantt view

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The Project Management view can be quickly adjusted to suit your work methodology. For instance you can expand the Gantt chart view to the full window or work only with the Task list.

Expand or collapse content Adjust the Task List / Gantt Chart views
  1. Highlight and select the divider between the Task List and the Gantt Chart. Drag to the handle to the left or right as required.
Expand or collapse content View Controls in the Gantt Chart view
  1. [Expand All]  -  expands the task list to show sub tasks.
  2. [Collapse All]  -  hides the sub tasks.  
  3. [Zoom In]  -  zoom in to the calendar Gantt view.
  4. [Zoom Out]  -  zoom out in the calendar Gantt view.
  5. [Zoom to fit]  -  zoom the calendar Gantt view to fit the current window.
  6. [Previous time span] [Next time span]  -  jump the Gantt view back and forward by day/ week/month/year dependent on the zoom state.

Apply column filters to tasks

Columns can be filtered and sorted

  1. To Filter tasks click on the {Apply Filter} icon at the top of the column in the Gantt title bar. Or right click anywhere in the column header and select {Filter}
  2. Enter your search criteria in the drop down list and are specific to each column.
  3. To sort click on the up/down arrow as appropriate  icon at the top of the column in the Gantt title bar.
  1. Right click anywhere in the task view column title bar to open a pop out menu to select, features are column dependent.
    • Filter  -  opens the standard column filter.
    • Columns  -  add or delete columns - note to activate particular features the related column needs to be visible.
    • Hide Column  -  hide the current column.
    • Sort - the current column Ascending and Descending.
    • Multi column sort - applies separate ascending or descending sort filters to multiple columns.

Select Display Columns

With over 20 columns that can be displayed there is  a need to focus on the most important. If you're work requires additional columns to manage your project then they are available to add. Many are required to give add control for example if you want to manually schedule a task, change scheduling mode or display a deadline then this is all possible. You are encouraged to explore these advance d features.

  1. Click on {Columns} in the column pop out menu to open the column selector panels
  2. Tick to display that column on the Gantt chart.

Reorder Columns

  1. To reorder the displayed columns click and drag ad drop each column to the new location

Multi Column Sorting

Multi sort - applies separate ascending or descending sort filters to multiple columns. To use, each column will need to be selected in turn to apply the filter, as each multi sort filter is applied the filter icon for that column will have a subscript added.

  1. Select {Multi sort}
  2. Add an ascending sorter or add a descending sorter to the current column.
  3. Remove the applied multi sorter to the column.
  1. Sort filter with the subscript added to indicate order of the sort, can be mixed ascending or descending.

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