Gantt Charts are great to visualize project plan, link dependencies and show reports to top management!
Should we include Gantt Charts in PlannerX?
This has been a big question! We know there are many people out there (in most web based collaboration / project management communities – including Basecamp and activeCollab) who really want it. And then there is this idea of focusing on collaboration to make a project success – rather than charts!
We don’t have Gantt Charts in the current version of PlannerX.
But, we are working on adding some level of Gantt chart support in an upcoming version. It’s difficult to create Gantt charts with Basecamp because Basecamp does not have due dates for to-do lists or tasks. Nor does it have estimates and dependencies. activeCollab does make it easier to add / manage these.
Bottomline: Our activeCollab version may have Gantt Charts sooner than Basecamp version. But we are surely thinking about this.
If you want Gantt Charts, please vote for it over on our GetSatisfaction support system!
Thanks for the quick reply.
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I find the current reporting module inadequte in terms of management reports. Agrees trackeing tickets is certainly important, but so is the need to understand the;
Total hours spent by resourse on a project
If a project is tracking correctly
Task duration
Calendar visability for what tasks are due to compelte, this week, next week etc.
Hi George,
Thanks for your feedback.
I guess you are talking about our Reports module for activeCollab. We have been thinking about adding two more sections of reports – people reports and MIS / Management reports. People reports will focus on work done by individuals – hours, tickets, tasks, weekly trends etc. MIS reports would be project costs, total hours spent, ticket counts etc. Task level reporting or detailed time logs and calendar view are provided by activeCollab itself, so we don’t need to include them.
Do let us know what kind of reports you use for your projects and what you think would be valuable. We will certainly consider adding them in future versions.
:Nirav
Please create a gantt viewer (future editable/drag `n drop. I would buy this from you guys. Thanks!!!
– Tim
Hi Tim,
Yes! We have already added a Gantt viewer in PlannerX for Basecamp. And are currently working on an extensive Planning module for activeCollab!
Will announce it as it’s ready!
:Nirav
Hi Nirav,
Do you have a proposed date when Gantt viewer will be available for activeCollab?
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike,
Don’t want to commit to a date right now. But it’s coming well in this month!
:Nirav
Hi,
Just start using PlannerX, 50% of my decision is because of the new Gantt Chart which I can use it for client.
These are my suggestions of improvement.
(1) Editable/drag n drop.
(2) Export to basecamp (message page) or as a separate file
-Philip
@Philip: Thank you for using PlannerX and your feedback. Exporting the Gantt chart to Basecamp as a message / file is great idea. We will add it to our plan.
Making the chart editable – though technically possible – is not feasible to implement. Simply because Basecamp does not allow to capture details like start date / dependencies etc. As such, even due dates are not supported except for milestones. A Gantt chart depends heavily on these dates and relationships. This is why we can’t have an editable Gantt chart. We would love to add this support, when Basecamp supports more attributes.
Thanks.
Dear appsMagnet Team, we are also working with Active Collab and we urgently need for a proper project management a ganttchart integration which is working in both ways.
How far are you in your development of this scenario?
Cheers, Oliver