Gantt chart
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.. index:: Gantt chart

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**Application of Gantt charts:**

- Visualisation of the project scheduling.
- Visualisation of the project structure.
- Visualisation of the contingency reserve.
- Quick access to the properties of activities and subprojects.

**You can use the Gantt chart for to do the following:**

- Create and edit activities.
- Link activities.
- Create and edit subprojects.
- Edit the project structure.
- Change the timescale.
- Check contingency reserves.
- Check resource utilization by means of filter settings.

**Context menu in the Gantt chart**

**For the table of activities**

Mark a row (activity or subproject) in the table of activities.
Once you have marked an activity, you can do as follows:

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- **Cut** – cut the marked activity
- **Copy** – copy the marked activity
- **Customize previous activity the latest start time** – shift
  all activities that are scheduled for an earlier time than the marked
  activity to the latest possible start date
- **Customize successor activity the earliest start time** – shift
  all activities that are scheduled for a later time than the marked
  activity to the earliest possible start date
- **Completed** – enter the completion percentage of a marked
  activity
- **Split** – split the marked activity into several activities
- **Incoming/Outbound link delete** – delete the links of the marked activity

In a **marked subproject** you can do the following activities:

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- **Cut** – cut the marked subproject
- **Copy** – copy the marked subproject
- **Show detail** – display up to any outline level of the marked subproject detail
- **Accept the start and finish dates of activities** – accept the start date of the first 
  activity and the end date of the last activity for the subproject start and the end of subproject
- **Earliest start date** – this command is active only
  for subprojects with fixed start and finish dates and shifts all
  activities in the subproject to the earliest possible start dates.
- **Latest start date** – this command is active only for
  subprojects with fixed start and finish dates and shifts all
  activities in the subproject to the latest possible start dates.
- **Move delayed activities to cutoff day** – if the project controlling
  detects that activities are still not 100% completed, you can shift these activities to the deadline and so
  update the project's status.
- **Optimize resource utilization** – most effective resource allocation, so as to avoid excess and shortfall within the prescribed period

**For the chart area**

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In the chart area you can mark an activity / subproject and do the
following:

- **Paste** – insert marked acrtivities / subprojects into a project
- **Select all** – mark all activities and subprojects: If activities
  are subordinated to a subproject, only the subproject will be marked
  in the chart.
- **New activity** - create a new activity at the position pointed to
  by the cursor
- **New activity from template file** - insert an already saved activity
  from template file at the position pointed to by the cursor
- **New activity from integration server template** - insert an already saved activity
  from integration server template at the position pointed to by the cursor.
  Only for the solution with interface to the Integration Server
- **New subproject** - create a new subproject at the position pointed
  to by the cursor
- **New subproject from template file** - insert an already saved subproject
  from template file at the position pointed to by the cursor
- **New subproject from integration server template** - insert an already saved subproject
  from integration server template at the position pointed to by the cursor. Only for the solution 
  with interface to the Integration Server

.. |image0| image:: ../images/control_gantt_chart.png
            :alt: Gantt chat
.. |image1| image:: ../images/control_gantt_chart_context_table.png
            :alt: Gantt chat table
.. |image2| image:: ../images/control_gantt_chart_context_subproject.png
            :alt: Gantt chat subproject
.. |image3| image:: ../images/control_gantt_chart_context_diagramm.png
            :alt: Gantt chat diagram