We just released our new Gantt Chart, the SharePoint project management app for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. The Virto Gantt Chart App is a handy, highly customizable project planning tool designed for displaying and managing SharePoint tasks in a Gantt Chart view.
SharePoint Project Management Challenges
Unreal time-limits
In the vast majority of projects the major problem is the compliance with deadlines. It becomes a challenge for managers to find effective approaches to tasks and schedules to finish project “on time” or get approval for shipping dates.
Lack of communication
Team workflows require uninterrupted communications. Project managers need effective communication infrastructures to provide information to each project resource.
Customer and end-users participation
Discussions and status updates should be provided to all members of a project. Stakeholders, customers, and end-users should be invited and encouraged to participate in important project decisions.
Scope changes
“Scope Creep” is the primary enemy of effective project management. Proper documentation and communication of what is happening and what is anticipated is very important in each project.
Inability to manage risks
Risk analysis should be run during the whole life cycle of the project. Project manager should have current information to make decisions that reduce risks and potential losses....
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Office 365 Gantt Chart App is a practical project management solution designed for displaying and managing SharePoint tasks in Gantt view. Virto Gantt Chart App is a highly customizable project planning tool – a popular bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Try also SharePoint Gantt Chart on-premise
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Display tasks in two views — table view and Gantt chart view
Virto Gantt Chart App comprises task names header and Gantt chart. The left part includes a list of SharePoint tasks and the right part shows graphical structure: duration and relations of tasks. Virto Gantt Chart App is an effective and convenient project management tool; with this solution, you can watch the whole Gantt structure of the tasks planned within your SharePoint site.
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Create a new task, delete or edit current tasks in Gantt Chart view
SharePoint Gantt Chart App takes tasks from the SharePoint lists you define. You need not navigate to the source lists to create, delete, or edit tasks. You can add/delete/move/resize tasks right in Virto Gantt Chart view.
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Display tasks from several lists
Use multiple SharePoint lists to display tasks in a single Gantt Chart. This ability makes Gantt Chart App a vital tool for SharePoint project management.
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Task relations: parent-child and predecessor/successor
Offiсe 365 Gantt Chart App allows users to display successors’ and predecessors’ relationships that determine the order in which tasks must be performed. Successor will start after predecessor; those tasks are connected through arrows.
Sometimes, in the process of project planning you might need to define parent-child relations between SharePoint tasks. You can assign a selected task to a child task (sub-task) in real time, right in the SharePoint Gantt Chart view.
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Task reordering and changing task duration with drag and drop feature
You can easily change task dates with the drag & drop feature. Use the mouse to move tasks to other dates or resize tasks to change start or end dates. The same changes will be applied to the SharePoint list.
Office 365 Gantt Chart App is a highly customizable Microsoft Office 365 project planner.
With this Gantt Chart app SharePoint users get a simple and effective tool for displaying their tasks in SharePoint Online. Gantt Chart App provides an easy way to include the online Gantt Chart into your resource planning SharePoint applications, without having to install a full-blown project management application, such as Microsoft Project.
With Microsoft Office 365 Gantt Chart app, a SharePoint user can have all his tasks and subtasks in a single view, easily create and complete tasks, assign resources, edit timeframes, and percentage of completion with just a few clicks. You can customize elements of a diagram, choose size, colors, and make the component ideally fit your SharePoint environment.
Key features:
- View list items in SharePoint Online Gantt chart
- Use SharePoint list as a data source
- Display several lists in one Gantt chart
- Edit (add/move/delete/resize) tasks and milestones directly in the Office 365 Gantt Chart
- Use different timescales to view items (day, week, month, year)
- Scroll Gantt chart to required period of time
- Scroll to current day tasks
- Create child tasks for selected tasks
- Change task duration with drag and drop feature
- Add task resources (users assigned to the task)
- Change percentage of completion with drag and drop feature
- Ability to define read-only right
- Ability to define colors for tasks, summary, milestones, percent of completion.
Features
| SharePoint Online Gantt chart | View list items in SharePoint Online Gantt chart |
| SharePoint list as a data source | You can use SharePoint lists as data sources in chart |
| Edit tasks | Edit (add/move/delete/resize) tasks and milestones directly in the Office 365 Gantt Chart |
| Timescales | Use different timescales to view items (day, week, month, year) |
| Scroll to required time | You can scroll Gantt chart to required period of time or to current day tasks |
| Parent-child relationships supported | You can create child tasks for selected tasks |
| Edit taskswith drag-and-drop feature | Change task duration and percentage of completion with drag and drop feature |
| Add task resources | Set users assigned to a task |
| Color-coding | Ability to define colors for tasks, summary, milestones, percent of completion |
Now you can schedule tasks in Virto SharePoint Gantt Chart web part automatically in dependence on relations between tasks.
For example, I created two tasks and connected them by arrow to make the following dependency: the second task starts after the first task’s end date.
Now I`ll move the first task to a new date and change the SharePoint Gantt Chart schedule. With the new auto scheduling feature Virto SharePoint Gantt Chart web part updates second task without any alteration in task duration and changes its start date according to the end date of the first task. If I move the first task end date to Friday, the successor task start date will be Monday....
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For example, I created two tasks and connected them by arrow to make the following dependency: the second task starts after the first task’s end date.
Now I`ll move the first task to a new date and change the SharePoint Gantt Chart schedule. With the new auto scheduling feature Virto SharePoint Gantt Chart web part updates second task without any alteration in task duration and changes its start date according to the end date of the first task. If I move the first task end date to Friday, the successor task start date will be Monday....
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Microsoft SharePoint can, among other things, be utilized as an incredibly accessible tool for the creation of websites consisting of publications based on templates and dedicated, styled web parts, which expand its basic capabilities.
What SharePoint Can Do
In the wide range of business needs, SharePoint’s main objective is elimination of workflow organization-related issues (via tasks scheduling; management of users’ profiles; providing employees with useful software components, such as calendar plan, list forms, workflow activities for processes automation bulk files management tools, etc.). Therefore, with Microsoft SharePoint, users receive an effective tool for....
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Feedback
Hendrik Loman
May 15, 2019
Got it up and working, and tested its validation in 60 seconds.
Bob Forrester
May 15, 2019
Provides a simple solution to add bar charts in SharePoint. Big plus for the option to display all sub tasks and tasks in one view. I recommend everybody try this out.
Yacoub
October 9, 2018
Thanks Developer for building this things, its so easy to use and so nice.
Demas
October 2, 2018
Very easy to use - you can have a chart on your Site within several minutes
Jon Krupp
September 19, 2018
Great plugin, works well.
Aaron
April 21, 2018
This is a very flexible app lets me compile all my tasks and subtasks into a single view that can be organized into annual, half a year, quarter, month, week and single day Gantt Charts that I can further customize with a few mouse clicks. It's a simple but powerful app equipped with the right amount of features that helps me complete tasks faster. I give it 5 stars.