Gantt Suite for Jira v 4.0.x: Gantt Suite Overview
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.
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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.
To be more precise, the Chart settings tab provides the ability to define the General information such as chart name, description and start/end dates, the Scheduling options such as type of Scheduling, project/project boards, JQL filter and scheduling mode, and the Task options such as start/end field, deadline field, duration calculation and mode.
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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.