May 04, 2016 11:55 PM
Like 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?
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Jan 30, 2019 08:38 AM
+1 The company I work for employees over 400 people. We were hoping to switch to switch from using google sheets and smart sheets to only using airtable but not having a gnatt chart is a MASSIVE issue.
Unfortunately it does not seem that airtable is interested in this feature and we will be forced to stick with smart sheets.
Jan 30, 2019 02:07 PM
Evaluating AirTable to become the primary CRM, project management, etc. tool enterprise wide for our ~100 employees and growing company… Gantt chart would carry significant weight in our evaluation/decision.
Mar 02, 2019 02:43 AM
We haven’t fully moved over to Airtable for lack of a Gantt feature. Timeline is useful to a point, but I need to use it with lookup fields and that’s not available. If we could have the Gantt feature as a view (as suggested above) and include lookup fields, that would allow us to let go of our old system and move fully to Airtable.
Mar 07, 2019 03:20 PM
Agreed, that feature would be so awesome!
Right now, Airtable really doesn’t 2nd as a project managing tool until it can introduce some form of a standard Gantt chart. Smartsheet doesn’t incorporate database functionality, which is a huge bummer, but their Gantt chart is pretty awesome. If Airtable doesn’t develop a Gantt chart from their date fields, it would totally put Smartsheet out of business.
Mar 11, 2019 10:29 AM
+100 for Gantt charts here at Datactivist
Mar 28, 2019 05:21 AM
I feel like if the timeline block had an option to set a “depends on” field (so you’d select a field that references other records in the same table), then that would be pretty much sort it…
Mar 29, 2019 12:57 PM
Ghantt charts would make my life so much easier.
Apr 12, 2019 07:19 AM
Ditto. Please alert me when you add charts and calendar creation capabilities (need both) and I will sign us up for your service.
Apr 27, 2019 08:11 PM
Since 2016 this has been a highly requested feature for Airtable to be a serious business project management tool in any enterprise. But no feature exists, not even close. Only pretty little things like “content calendar”. Please, AirTable, launch Gantt or enable some kind of plugin integration.
May 18, 2019 06:24 AM
Agreed on the above! We need a Gantt view. The timeline block is a very weak feature, with no flexibility of a real Gantt view. It needs to support multiple start and end time cells like the calendar view, and the color coding should support any kind of grouping you can do in the grid view. (Like, by assignee?)
May 21, 2019 11:35 AM
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.)
May 21, 2019 11:35 AM
For all users interested in Gantt charts - it’s here!
(You need the pro plan to use the Gantt block). Pretty impressed with this on first view. Started by trying to see if I could implement formulas that would drive the dates of all related tasks, but this is built in, so not necessary.
JB
May 21, 2019 11:51 AM
Thank You! As a project manager, this is much appreciated. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :kissing_heart:
May 22, 2019 10:59 AM
Was waiting for this. Goodbye Trello, goodbye smartsheets. Hello Airtable.
Jun 04, 2019 04:30 AM
An awesome step forward! Any chance you can add resolution to hours? Not all tasks take a full day and I get dependency errors when I reference to something in the same day…
Thanks!
Michael
Jun 19, 2019 11:28 AM
I am right there with you on this point.
Jul 22, 2019 02:05 PM
We are a furniture dealership and would like to create a timeline, with milestones, for our projects:
Really, really new to the whole concept of using a program to help manage time/tasks … and I am struggling to get a project overview that works for us …one that shows all the milestone steps, but doesn’t require hours on the back end to set up and maintain :frowning:
Was hoping the Gantt Chart feature would work for us … but it will not track milestones in a single record … looks like we have create ‘linked records’ or ‘linked fields’ or additional tables … and we run about 300 projects through 7 teams, which is a tremendously crazy amount of info to try to manage on multiple records! Projects run through our queue in 1-4 weeks (there are some outliers, but we try to close business quickly!) … so I am looking for ways to increase efficiency, not add more admin tasks to my already super busy teams! :slightly_smiling_face:
So, here is where I sit right now and I am hoping someone with a bit more intelligence about Airtable can assist in getting me where I am trying to go! :slightly_smiling_face:
I have all the dates set as fields … and our projects are set as records … I need a way to show a project timeline, with milestones, in a Gantt type view. Happy to share what I have hammered out on my own … not sure the best way to demonstrate it, so would appreciate a bit of guidance!
Sep 05, 2019 02:08 PM
This is really neat. It’s always nice to see such huge leaps in Airtable functionality!
A few enhancements that would make this even more helpful as a scheduling tool (enabling a true replacement to our current Gantt scheduling tool):
Nov 13, 2019 09:54 AM
On top of the request above regarding skipping holidays, PLEASE extend this functionality beyond traditional office M-F schedules and into shifts. The ability to create defined shifts and assign them to the activities like in P6 or Project is 100% crucial for construction use (day shift, swing shift, night shift, long extended weekend work shifts, etc) and the only thing currently holding us back from utilizing this tool.
May 20, 2020 01:41 PM
Hello Geneviene_Lancaster and others,
have you successfully managed using Airtable for Its Gantt functionality and scheduling tool. We are thinking of switching from MS project and smartsheet to Airtable and just wanted to see how Airtable is performing these days when it comes Gantt, dependency and project scheduling?
Thanks