+4Like the calendar view but if you introduce Gantt you could take Smartsheet out of the market :slightly_smiling_face: until then they have an edge over you!!!
As an interim to full Gantt view could you show tasks with a start and end date as a span e.g. multi days rather than start date only?
Best answer by Katherine_Duh
Hi folks! We just launched the Gantt block today. If you have access to Airtable Blocks through the Pro or Enterprise plan, I highly recommend that you go check it out!
This blog post has a good overview of the features included in our Gantt block (including simple drag-and-drop editing, cascading changes, critical path highlighting, grouping, color-coding, and more). For more in-depth guidance, you can check out our support article here, which also has a tutorial video.
If you’re not sure where to start, we just released a bunch of new Gantt-centric templates:
Our Airtable experts will also teach you how to set up a Gantt block and answer all your Gantt questions if you sign up for our live office hours, happening at 9 a.m. PDT on Thursday, May 23. (If you can’t make that time, sign up anyway and we’ll send you a recording later.)
I have a small empire built with Smartsheet. Love AirTable and some functionality, I know, will arrive at some point (fonts, font formatting, decent printing, etc.) but the no gantt view is a deal breaker right now for me. I tried to do it, I really did, but having to use a different tool for that was no bueno. Still on Smartsheet.
Did a little compare post on Smartsheet and Airtable as of now a week or so ago >> https://mergy.org/2018/03/thoughts-on-airtable-from-a-longtime-smartsheet-user/
+4I have a small empire built with Smartsheet. Love AirTable and some functionality, I know, will arrive at some point (fonts, font formatting, decent printing, etc.) but the no gantt view is a deal breaker right now for me. I tried to do it, I really did, but having to use a different tool for that was no bueno. Still on Smartsheet.
Did a little compare post on Smartsheet and Airtable as of now a week or so ago >> https://mergy.org/2018/03/thoughts-on-airtable-from-a-longtime-smartsheet-user/
Well said. I agree with pretty much everything, though being able to link to other bases and a more granular user permission is key for my use. I am a little concerned with the pace of Airtable updates and don’t know when/if they will make the changes you highlighted.
I am looking into Smartsheets now as an Airtable alternative because I have been waiting on Airtable forever.
I guess the answer to this is kinda found in blocks with timeline. Ofcorse, it’s at start, without the usefull options, but it looks like a step forward. Hope to see it grows as it’s one of the powertools of classic PM.
+18I have a small empire built with Smartsheet. Love AirTable and some functionality, I know, will arrive at some point (fonts, font formatting, decent printing, etc.) but the no gantt view is a deal breaker right now for me. I tried to do it, I really did, but having to use a different tool for that was no bueno. Still on Smartsheet.
Did a little compare post on Smartsheet and Airtable as of now a week or so ago >> https://mergy.org/2018/03/thoughts-on-airtable-from-a-longtime-smartsheet-user/
Nice job. Wrapping text got better now since the use of adjustable row height. But it also has a drawback: all records get the same adjusted row height. Being a spreadsheet fan, I like the fact that only the row with much text is enlarged. This is not (yet) possible in Airtable.
We don’t need just a gantt view! The awesome thing about Airtable is that it allows you to organize and view data any way you want. The timeline is a great start because it’s the foundation of a gantt view, but imagine being able to group the records in there like you’re able to in other views (e.g. calendar view). You can group by a collaborator field to get a gantt view. You can group by different projects, or by statuses — anything! So… adding grouping and sorting in the timeline block will give us a gantt view and soooo much more!
+4Technically this issue is solved by the new Blocks feature, but the Gannt chart on there is not near sophisticated enough for our needs. Please, Airtable, add it as another view!
Technically this issue is solved by the new Blocks feature, but the Gannt chart on there is not near sophisticated enough for our needs. Please, Airtable, add it as another view!
totaly agree with you !
A gantt view would do this job way better than a block
Agree - with a Gantt view you basically will no longer need tools like Asana or Wrike. The “timeline” block in its current incarnation is just not sufficient. It’s too limited.
Gantt chart view is the Only thing I’m missing in Airtable to make it an all-in-one solution. I’m in construction and need to see the Critical Path for my projects… would really love not to have to use another product in order to achieve this. Thank you!!!
Isn’t Timeline block pretty much a gantt chart?
The timeline view doesn’t order tasks in a hierarchy as you would in a Gantt chat. It looks very confusing when there are multiple sets of top-level and sub-tasks. However this doesn’t feel too far away from a useful Gantt. I’m hoping Airtable’s product team are working on a tweak that would enable a real Gantt view - we would increase our usage of Airtable significantly if they did.
+1 A lack of Gantt functionality is the only thing holding my company back from moving to Airtable from Smartsheet. We’re using smartsheet right now.
Agreed. My company is obsessed with Excel and Smartsheet. I’m the only Project person that uses AirTable. AirTable is distinctly lacking in some areas, and out performs in a lot of other areas. Gantt is one of the flaws of AirTable.
Coming here to look for a reason why Gantt charts haven’t been implemented - it’s a strange omission. I’ve been using the Timeline block for this project, and it’s extremely clunky. You want your timeline to be fullscreen and easily accessible, alongside the other views (Kanban, Calendar, List, etc). You don’t wan’t it shoved into a small box off in a side panel, hidden behind a button. While you can expand the timeline to full screen, all the extra friction it takes to find the timeline, and open it up to a usable view has made our timeline completely invisible to the rest of the team. You can’t even link directly to the timeline, which makes it hard to share in Slack. (I’ve had to keep taking updated screenshots to post to the group.) No one on my team has thought to look for the timeline hidden behind the “Blocks” button, (no one even understands what blocks are) no matter how clearly I explain how to access the timeline.
The simplest fix is to simply have the timeline be a first class citizen and promote it into Views, alongside Kanban, Calendar, List, etc. As a user, it’s not at all clear why Kanban is a view but Timeline is a block, or even why there’s an arbitrary distinction. It doesn’t make sense, and it adds unnecessary friction both to my workflow and to the rest of my team’s ability to stay in sync with the schedule.
I love everything else about Airtable but all the friction involved with timelines has made this a “write-only” repository of tasks.
another vote from me. We NEED Gantt charts.
(plagiarizing Matt_Jones)
Another vote for Gantt. I don’t really like them but others NEED them.
+1 on Gantt. It’s actually odd that request as been there for two years with no updates from Airtable on this. Does anyone know if it’s on a timeline somewhere?
+4+1 on Gantt. It’s actually odd that request as been there for two years with no updates from Airtable on this. Does anyone know if it’s on a timeline somewhere?
It will happen eventually. And when it does, I hope the Airtable team takes a solid look at Asana Timeline and Instagantt. They have their strengths and weaknesses, and we’d love to bail on both.
A huge thing for us is the ability to duplicate past projects/views and “push” them forward into the future by X days. This is a huge efficiency for any project planning team.
Even more powerful would be some sort of actualization AI, that is smart enough to reschedule dates in a way that avoids weekends, holidays and other non-working days. That is a shortcoming of all PM apps I’m aware of.
+1 on Gantt chart. Asana and Instagantt have a great solution already. Would welcome a third party integration if Airtable is having a difficult time setting up in house…
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