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Extended Settings tab

Extended Settings tab

Owned by Mariia Korolishyna
Last updated: Jan 27, 2025
7 min read

The Extended settings tab offers a user the ability to configure additional customization, including such settings as initial auto-scheduling, default task duration, default unit for resource workload, custom markers, etc.

 

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Auto scheduled dependencies

Editing a task on Gantt chart will re-schedule all dependent tasks. If setting is not enabled, changing a task will not move dependent tasks.

Initial auto-scheduling

If setting is enabled, the tasks are auto-scheduled when a chart is loaded.

This option will only take effect if "Auto scheduled dependencies" is enabled.

Default unit for 'Edit task' dialog

A user can select a default unit if only a number is provided on "Edit task' dialog.

Default task duration

In case a task us unscheduled, it obtains a default duration. A user can define a default task duration in pretty format.
Example: 1w 2d 4h 30m.

Default unit for resource workload

A user can select a default unit to use for a resource workload display on the Resource panel.

In-cell task disposition: whole cell

If setting is enabled: a task will fill the whole cell if its duration is equal to or exceeds the working hours for a given day.
If setting is disabled: a task will be shown on a chart as filling part of a cell, according to taken working hours for a given day.

Custom chart markers (json)

In addition to such standard markers such as Today, release and sprint markers, a user can configure a display of custom markers.

Please feel free to use the example below to configure custom markers in accordance to your needs.

[{"date": "2023-12-25 00:00", "title": "Christmas", "color": "green"}, {"date": "2024-01-01 00:00", "title": "Happy New Year!", "color": "red"}]

Include Jira sub-tasks into parent estimate

The settings allows a user to configure the ability to include the Jira sub-task estimate(s) into their parent task estimate, assuming that the parent task is in Manual mode.

The enabled setting might come handy in the next cases:

  1. A user requires to see the aggregated work in epic based on stories that lay in the epic and based on the sub-tasks the stories have

  2. A user requires to see the aggregated work in parent tasks but doesn’t want them to reflect on epic

Case 1:

  • Epic DEMO-8 has story with two sub-tasks

  • Story DEMO-2 has 3d work estimate

  • The story’s sub-tasks DEMO-16 and DEMO-17 have 4h work estimate each

Goal: To display the aggregated work for the epic based on its story and story’s sub-tasks.

To reach the desired outcome, the setting Include Jira sub-tasks into parent estimate has to be enabled.