Gantt Suite for Jira v 2.2.x: Gantt Suite Overview

Owned by Mariia Korolishyna
Jun 27, 2023
3 min read

Gantt Suite is a Jira app for project visualization via Gantt chart. Provides tasks and resources planning.

Integration Points

Once installed, Gantt Suite menu will appear in Jira's Admin menu. This is company-wide configuration and default settings for new charts. For details, see Company-wide configuration.

Gantt menu item will appear in Jira's top menu for regular users. For details, see Working with a chart.

Configuration

Gantt Suite provides two levels of configurations, company-wide configuration and chart configuration.

Company-wide configuration

Once app is installed, admin must specify company-wide app settings, setup default values for new charts, and configure Jira fields that are used by Gantt Suite. For details, see Company-wide configuration.

Chart configuration

Regular users can only configure their own charts, or some of those shared with them (if the relevant permissions are given to a user).  For details, see Configuring a chart.

Home page

Gantt Suite home page shows a list of charts created by you and shared with you.

Chart configuration

Chart configuration defines the items to include on a chart, work time specifics for the chart, as well as security and sharing.

Chart settings tab

Chart settings mostly define what data to include into a chart. The ‘Chart settings’ tab includes two sections, General and Additional.

 

 

Resources tab

Here, you can define the working and non-working days and hours for your team in general as per individual resource by adding and configuring the individual resource calendars.

In addition, as a chart manager, you’ll be able to configure the field for a resource assignment.

By default, standard Jira field Assignee is used for a resource assignment. Although, any custom field with the type of User picker (single user) can be used for a resource assignment.

 

 

If needed, the Resource panel can be hidden from Gantt chart display by unticking the Resource panel checkbox.

Security tab

By default, created Gantt chart is public and accessible by all Jira users who are granted an access to the app.

As a chart manager, you can choose who can view or edit the chart by configuring the chart security roles.

 

As a chart manager, you can also define the types of task dependencies to be displayed on Gantt chart.

 

For details, see Configuring a chart.

Gantt chart

Once you open a Gantt chart, the task list is displayed on the left, inside left-side grid, the tasks themselves are displayed in timeline section, and resource workload/availability is displayed at the bottom. For details, see Working with a chart.