One of the many ways of visualizing your Projects in Skills Workflow is in a Gantt Chart.
The Gantt view will give a more visual representation of all the jobs of a Project and how they are related to one another through time.
Image 1 - Gantt View
Create your parent and child Jobs
- Start by creating Jobs inside your Project.
- Under a parent Job you can also create many child jobs.
Switch to Gantt View.
- Inside the Project, on the tab "Jobs" click on this symbol
- Check your Jobs and their hierarchy on the left.
- Check start and end date of each Job and adjust if needed.The system calculates duration of each job in days based on the start and end dates defined.
- You can adjust your jobs by doing changes on the respective columns on the left or by directly moving the horizontal bars.
- Drag them through the calendar to change the dates or strech/shrink them to lenghten/shorten the duration of the jobs.
- Configure the dependency between the jobs by filling in the predecessor column.
Image 3 - Predecessor Column
Check completeness of each job.
- On the field "% Done" you can check how much has been done on a given job and whether it has already finished (100% done) or is still in progress (<100% done).
- These percentages are pre-defined based on the Workflow Stage the job is in.
E.g. You can define that when a job reaches the stage "Waiting Client Approval " it is 70% complete. - As jobs move along the workflow to different stages, these % in the Gantt automatically change, but you can still manually adjust them if needed.
- The colour of each bar represents the stage that respective job is in.
Image 4 - % Done Column
The Gantt View includes several buttons at the top to help you adjust your chart view:- Every time you do a change you'll need to save the changes.
- Zoom Out
- Zoom In
- Zoom to fit all of the information on the screen
- Expand All to see the details of all Jobs
- Collapse All to see only the Jobs (parents)
- Add a new Job
- Go to the selected Job
JobType Dropdown.
- You can easily add Jobs to the Gantt without having to use the regular Job creation pop-up.
- To add a new Job to the gantt, you'll need to select a Department/Job Type from the dropdown list.
- When the Job Type is already selected click on the "Add Job" option and the job will be automatically added to the Gantt.
Figure 5 - Job Type dropdown box in Gantt view mode
- The job will only be activated as soon as you click on the "Save" option.
- It will move to the first stage defined on the Workflow.
Figure 6 - Automatic Activation
Executors Column
- On the Executors Column you can easily check who's been assigned to the jobs by passing your mouse on top of the image.
- You can also easily assign users by clicking directly on the Executors column. The job will automatically open on the Assignments pop-up.
- Search for a username or title and click on it to add as an executor. After this you'll need to submit the post.
Figure 7 - Executors Column
Figure 8 - Assign users on the Gantt
Copy & Paste the Gantt
- Jobs can now be easily copied and pasted in order to quickly create Schedules
- Select the jobs you want to copy, click on the right side of the mouse and select the option Copy
- After this, paste the jobs by selecting the option "Paste"
- You can also copy Jobs and paste them in other Projects
Figure 9 - Copy & Paste Jobs
Pop-up message when leaving the project.
Whenever you try to navigate to another module/tab without saving the changes you made, a pop-up message will appear alerting that there are unsaved changes.
Figure 10 - Pop-up message when leaving the project
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