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.
