Gantt - Start date, end date, completion date

[Elena_Lopez]

Hi! I have a base with start date, end date and completion date. When setting the Gannt I have start date and end date that create “a line”. However, I wanted to see also something on the Gantt that gives me when that activity was completed. I was thinking about setting that as milestone but it is not posible. I know that I can color the category as eg. green to see that is completed but I want to see WHEN. Any suggestion is highly appreciated! Thanks!!

[TheTimeSavingCo]

Hmm, may I know what issues you faced while trying to use a milestone for this?

(I can’t think of any way to do what you’re looking for and am thus trying to see if I can help make the milestone thing possible instead. Hopefully someone else has an idea!)

[ScottWorld]

Yes, as Adam mentioned above, milestones can be set in both the Gantt views and Timeline views by specifying an end date but no start date for a particular record.

[Elena_Lopez]

Thanks Adam and Scott. I need for sure to have a start and end date. The idea was to somehow highlight when the tasked is completed somewhere in the Gantt chart. Do you have any idea on how to do this? I don’t want to modify the end date as I want to continue having that insight of the completion of the task before the planned end date. Thanks in advance

[TheTimeSavingCo]

Hi Elena, I would just end up creating two records for each task I think. Not the most elegant of solutions, but seems to be the only way to do it

Consider the following scenario where I have Task 1 and it’s data is as follows:

• Started on 1 May
• Planned end date of 5 May
• Actual end date of 6 May

I would end up with two records:

• Record 1:
  • Name: Task 1
  • Start Date: 1 May
  • End Date: 5 May
• Record 2:
  • Name: Task 1 Completion Date
  • Start Date: [EMPTY]
  • End Date: 6 May