Gantt view

Plan and track scheduled records on a timeline.

Use a Gantt view to show scheduled records on a timeline. It helps you compare dates, dependencies, and progress across a table. Click Quarter, Month, Week, or Day to change the timeline scale. Use search, Sort, Group, and Filter to focus the records you need. Use Today to return to the current date when it is outside the visible timeline. Click any bar or milestone in the Gantt to open its record in the form view.

Before you configure the view, prepare fields for each record's start date, end date, and bar label. You can also use fields for color, progress, milestones, baselines, and dependencies.

Configure a Gantt view

1

Open Configure Gantt

Click Configure Gantt in the view toolbar.

2

Map the timeline fields

Select the Start date, End date, and Bar label fields. Each record appears as a bar across its selected date range.

3

Add optional details

Select fields for Color, Progress, or Milestone when needed. Configure dependencies and baselines if your schedule uses them.

4

Review the timeline

Check that records appear on the expected dates. Use Sort, Group, and Filter to focus the view.

Gantt settings

Click Configure Gantt to map fields and control the timeline display.

• In Start date and End date, choose the fields that define each bar's time range. If you configure only one option, Ninox displays every record as a milestone. If you configure both options, records missing either of the selected dates appear as milestones too. All other records appear as time-range bars.
• In Bar label, choose the field whose text appears on the bar.
• In Color, choose a Choice or Color field to color each bar.
• In Progress, choose a field that contains a value from 0 to 100. Ninox displays the value as the bar's completion percentage.
• In Milestone, choose a Yes/No field that marks a record as a milestone. If Start date and End date are configured, and the record is marked as a milestone using the Yes/No field, Ninox displays the milestone on the End date.
• In Dependency, choose a relationship field between records in the table shown in the Gantt view. If no field is available, add a relationship field in this table. Set its target to the same table. Use it when Gantt items depend on each other. Ninox draws dependency lines between linked records.

  After you select the relationship field, you see the Linked record is setting.

  • Choose A predecessor that finishes first when the linked record must finish before the current record.
  • Choose A successor that starts afterwards when the linked record starts after the current record.
• In Baseline start and Baseline end, choose fields that show planned dates alongside the current schedule.
• In Default time scale, choose the timeline scale shown when users open the view.

Use these toggles if needed:

• Hide title column to hide the left-hand column that lists bar labels.
• Highlight critical path to highlight tasks that determine the schedule's finish date.
• Disable dragging bars to prevent users from changing dates by dragging bars.
• Hide weekends in day view to remove weekends from the day scale.
• Shade weekends to display weekends with a shaded background.