Gantt View Expand Timescale Options and Zooming between Timescales
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Marloes Private
It would be great if we can zoom in or out in the gantt chart or other views! On my laptop I am not able to get an overview of my full gantt chart (same for box view). It would be great to be able to customize the zoom settings depending on the computer that you are working on. Thank you!
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Juan Grandas
Hello,
We know how critical the Gantt chart is for many of you, and we’ve heard your feedback loud and clear. We’re committed to making meaningful improvements, and your input is essential in shaping these changes.
To ensure we’re addressing the right areas, we invite you to take a short survey about zoom levels and timescale headings in the Gantt. Your feedback will directly influence the updates we’re planning.
Thank you for helping us make the Gantt chart better for everyone.
Guy Mannerings
Juan Grandas One thing I would really like is a view where we can see years broken down in to months instead of quarters.
Basically, taking the current "Quarter" time scale, where a year is broken in to Quarters, but break it down in to months instead.
I just wanted to visualise a year at a time with months underneath.
Not everyone uses quarters, so this is a key thing missing.
Guy Mannerings
Juan Grandas Taking this further, why not make it so we can customise what is on the top row and bottom row?
E.g., the current "Week" mode has Month on top, and Week number on bottom. But there is no way for me to make Month on top and Day on bottom.
E.g., there is no way to split Years in to Months. There is currently only the option to split Quarters in to Months.
If we could just set our own timescales, that would fit everyone.
Can we please get FULL customisation of time scales?
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Alex Yule
Ensuring the "Today" marker is indeed "Today" and not the start of a month, or week depending on what view you are on is critical. It is difficult to present a Gantt to stakeholders when the marker is not actually where you are up to in the timeline, especially like today where you are at the end of a month and in the view it still shows at the start!
Guy Mannerings
Alex Yule Yep. It always say "today" and match where you are no matter the zoom scale.
Robert Hudman
Juan Grandas - here is another idea on the forum that is ciritcal for gantt: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/dynamic-task-start-end-dates-based-on-all-subtasks
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Samantha Cicchelero
Hey all,
another request: is it possible to have the vertical line to indicate today? When we export in PDF the line disappears.
Thanks in advance and have a nice time
Sam
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Samantha Cicchelero
Hey all,
is it possible to reduce size of day column? With new display Gantt Chart view pdf is very difficult to read.
Also the number of week is hidden, is it possible to correct it?
Thank you
Gerhard Gronemann
Day-grid, even for longer timescales (zoom out) would be necessary.
For me, the biggest thing is print to paper or pdf. I need a printing range from - to date and/or the definition of an area of the gantt view. Reason is the requirement of of paper work plans for construktion site on DIN-A1 or DIN-A0. And the same as PDF vor different trades without a seat or guest status.
Next is a progress view for each task. Tasks lasting over weeks will be up to date with one view.
For long time project planing I work with time windows witch contains the the real time requirement as a fraction. Would be nice to see this, will saz time requirement as it is and an additional time Window in lighter color. Have seen this somewhere else to in this comments.
Thanks!
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Narayan
Juan, thanks for your initiative in setting up this survey, but it is based on an flawed premise. Please see the screenshot of the original Gantt view above made by the OP. It has 3 levels of timelines. For example, in the week view above, the week is in the middle, and then there's the month above it to provide overview and the day below it to provide granularity.
Your current Gantt view has only 2 levels for timelines as reflected in the screenshot below. The week view has the week and the Month above it but skips the day altogether. Somebody in your support team tried to explain the change to me in these words "The update on the Gantt view timescales was implemented in July during Release 3.26. These changes were based on community feedback and aimed to simplify the interface and provide more detailed control." The flurry of complaints below clearly indicate that it wasn't based on any careful impact assessment or feedback from existing users, but apparently a more technically oriented change to "simplify" the interface at the cost of functionality. You need to acknowledge that this is the root cause of the issues being raised. You can't do with 2 levels of timelines what users were able to do with 3 levels.
Yet, despite all this, your survey seeks to perpetuate your current design and simply turn a blind eye by only offering 2 levels of timelines as the set options. This is a deeply flawed, at best, deceptive and at worst, manipulative approach to seeking user input, as it doesn't even offer options that existed previously and that the users in this thread are clamouring for. I would take exception to you using the results of this flawed survey to justify the development of this feature in the way that's convenient to you while continuing to frustrate existing users.
My suggestion to you is to first reinstate the previous Gantt view with 3 levels of timelines and then run a survey for any enhancements. Alternatively, at the very least you should provide additional options in your survey that reflect the previous Gantt chart view with 3 levels. The option for "other", to suggest alternatives doesn't cut it.
Your persistent attempts to take an ostrich like attitude to this issue and use the 2 level timeline as a starting point is as deeply flawed as was the change in the first place and I believe it will only continue to cause your clients more grief.
Leonid Yuferov
It would be great if we can add custom fields in the gantt chart. Where can I place this idea? At the moment, I am planning to implement the display in a single window of all marketing activities within the project, and so that all activities have their own separate list of departments responsible for these activities as the root directory. If it were possible to add custom fields to gantt, then I would be able to visualize for management not only the project roadmap, but also planned and actual indicators.
Juan Grandas
Hello,
We know how critical the Gantt chart is for many of you, and we’ve heard your feedback loud and clear. We’re committed to making meaningful improvements, and your input is essential in shaping these changes.
To ensure we’re addressing the right areas, we invite you to take a short survey about zoom levels and timescale headings in the Gantt. Your feedback will directly influence the updates we’re planning.
Thank you for helping us make the Gantt chart better for everyone.
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Narayan
I want the above view back! It has 3 levels of timelines for the week view which allows for overview by month and granular visibility by date/day for more precise scheduling!
Somehow, the current release has taken a retrograde step with only 2 levels of timelines as in the screenshot below, without undertaking any kind of impact analysis of the change on current users or any consultation of the impacts.
ClickUp, you should treat a request for a new feature differently from change requests of existing features. While the former may not affect any existing users (as they are new), willy-nilly changes without a proper impact analysis to existing features significantly degrades the ability of existing users to follow a smooth workflow that they have carefully built around that feature. Tread carefully when changing features that are being used by the millions of your paying users!
Juan Grandas
Narayan:
Thank you for your detailed feedback.
While we adopted the two-timeline format based on customer feedback and standards in our space, I understand it may not meet everyone’s needs. I’m always eager to hear different perspectives to better serve our users.
Our testing indicates that customers often prefer focusing on fewer, more critical timelines and switching between scales as needed. However, I’d love to understand how you use the three-timeline scale and how many versions of it you’d find beneficial.
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