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Customize the columns in your Gantt chart

Timeline squeezed, or task names cut off? The columns on the left of your Gantt chart tell you what each row is and when it happens, and you decide which ones stay and how wide they are. Your chart remembers that layout the next time you open it.

Hide a column, and bring it back

Right-click a column’s header and choose hide column. To get hidden columns back, right-click any header and choose show all columns. One column always stays in view.

Right-click a column header to hide it
Right-click a column header to hide it

Hiding a column only changes your view: the details stay in your integration. If your chart follows your team’s default settings, a column you hide or resize stays that way until you reload the page.

Make a column wider or narrower

Drag the line between two columns in any row. Start and End keep their width.

Drag the line between two columns to resize them
Drag the line between two columns to resize them

What each column shows

Your task details

The first columns show your tasks as your integration has them: the name, and depending on the integration its labels, assignees, status, priority or description. Each column uses your integration’s own word, so yours may say Card or Task. To change a value, change it in your integration and your chart picks it up.

Start and End

Start and End give the first and last date of a row’s time blocks and due dates. On a group’s row they span everything in the group, so you know when a whole list or project starts and ends. Pick another date there and the row’s time block moves to match, and picking a date on a row without one adds a time block.

Duration

If your chart has a Duration column, it adds up a row’s time blocks in days, weeks or hours, depending on your zoom level. A group’s row adds up everything in the group.

Need the full task, card or to-do? Click its icon in the last column to open it in your integration, in a window of its own, so you keep your place in the chart.

Jump to a task’s dates

Planning months ahead? Your tasks can sit far away from the stretch of timeline you’re looking at. Click the arrow at the end of a row to jump straight to its dates, and click again for its next time block. Today brings you back to the present. For the start or end of your plan, or any other date, right-click the dates above the timeline.

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Timeline looking empty? Your tasks are still there, just on other dates. Looking for one task? Hover over its row, and look for the arrow at the end. Click it, and you land right on that task, months away. Back to the present? Click Today, in the toolbar.
To get around your whole plan, right-click the dates at the top. Pick Start Schedule, End Schedule, or any date you like. Choose End Schedule, and you're at the last task in your plan.
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Sort the rows, or share one layout with your team

Want the rows in another order? Sort your chart by any column. Team owners can make their layout the default for the team, so everyone opens the chart the same way.