Gantt Charts Web Tutorial

Click Start Date in the Set Time Frame group of SmartPanel to open the Set Start Date dialog.

For this example, select the month April (the first month of the second quarter), and the year 2009, and click OK.

The Gantt chart will now display the appropriate months for the second quarter, in 2009.

The first task CarCo Motors schedules for the design of a new car is a planning meeting with the goal of forming the basic design concepts.

We can label the first task Planning Meeting. To add this task to the Gantt chart, click Add Task in the Tasks group of SmartPanel. The first row of the Gantt chart becomes highlighted with information on the following columns: Number, Task, Start, End and Duration. The Months column has a taskbar stretched out based on the length of time in the duration column. In the Task column is the word "Task," which is highlighted. Simply begin typing to replace the text with the name of the first task, Planning Meeting.

The date of this meeting is April 1, 2009, and will last throughout that day only. Therefore, change the Duration value to "1" by clicking into the Duration cell to highlight the number and type "1." Notice how the End Date automatically changes to "4/2/2009." Also notice how in this case the length and position of the taskbar becomes very small in size to match a day size of one.

The next Task to add is the design process.