In every View you make in Ganttic, there’s different ways to change up the colors of the Taskbars on the Gantt chart. Taskbar color coding is a convenient way to customize your Custom and Single Project Views. More than that, it’s possible to do condition-based coloring using your Resource, Project, and Task Data Field values (status, location, department, etc). Gain a new perspective on plans and keep everyone up to date with changes. See how!
Must Know
- All Owners, Admins and Users with Edit View permissions can apply Taskbar coloring and change the applied coloring scheme of the View. Unless the View's settings are locked via Custom View Permissions.
- Taskbars can be color coded using: Task colors, Task Data Field values, Project colors, Project Data Field values, or with Resource colors.
- Condition-based parameters are taken from Data Field values. For this, only List and Check type Data Fields can be used.
- All Color coding is View-specific, meaning each Custom or Single Project View can have a different coloring scheme applied.
- In a Custom View the color options will be the same for everyone who has access to the View. While in a Single Project View, the coloring is user-based and differs for each user.
Before You Begin
Ensure that your Tasks, Projects, and Resources have individual colors assigned to them. Do this from the item's Edit Dialogs.
- Click on a Project, Task, or Resource name to open its Edit Dialog.
- Click the color box next to the Name. This will open the color pallet. Choose a color or use a custom color. Assign a color to the Project and hit Save.
- Continue this for all the Projects, Tasks, and Resources.
Applying Project, Task, and Resource Colors to Taskbars
- Open a Single Project or Custom View.
- Click Taskbar Coloring from the View’s toolbar.
- Select your coloring choice from Dialog that pops open. Task Colors is the default setting for all Views.
But it's possible to choose from: - Hit Apply (temporary) or Apply and Save (permanent) to save it to your View.
- See your Taskbars colored by the applied scheme.
NB! This is specific to this View (for all Users). In a Single Project View, this is User-specific only.
Taskbar Coloring by Data Fields
Before you begin applying this conditional coloring, ensure that you’ve set up Task and Project Data Fields. And included values for every Task and Project within this View.
NB! Only List and Check type Data Fields can be used for this feature.
- Open a Single Project or Custom View.
- Click Taskbar Coloring from the View’s toolbar.
- Select which of your Data Fields you’d like to color your Taskbars with. Here we picked Task Status.
- Customize the different colors for your Data Fields’ Values. Below the options, you’ll see the values next to colored boxes. Click the colored box to edit and assign a color to each value.
- Hit Apply (temporary) or Apply and Save (permanent) to save it to your View.
- See your Taskbars colored by the selected color scheme.
Conditional Taskbar Coloring in Action
This feature is great for customizing your plans, and providing quick insights that can help with your planning strategy. For example you can use a Task Data Field named Location - and when you apply the conditional coloring, you’d see exactly which Resources in which location are engaged and who can take on a bit more work.
Some other common examples of this use include:
- Department
- Client who commissioned the job
- Project Manager who oversees the work
- Task Status
- Tentative bookings
- Whether the Task is invoiced or not
Next Steps
Add color throughout your planner for ultimate customization. See some tips and gain some inspiration for how to use color to boost your project resource management.