Gantt Chart View and Timeline Tracking
AB Projects includes a built-in Gantt view that lays your tasks out on a calendar grid so you can see schedules, overlaps, and what's overdue at a glance. It's useful for planning and for keeping a project's timeline honest.
Opening the Gantt view
- In the project's task area (Teams tab or web), use the view switcher and choose Gantt (the views are List, Gantt, and Kanban).
- Tasks with valid start and due dates appear as bars. Tasks without proper dates are listed but show "—" instead of a bar.
- The timeline range is set automatically to cover your tasks (a few days before the earliest start through after the latest due date) and always includes today; on open it scrolls to today for you.
What you see
- Left columns: each task's priority icon, title, assignee, and status badge, plus its start → due dates.
- Task bars: a horizontal bar for each task's scheduled span. The bar is colored by the task's status color, and shows a progress fill (the bar's tooltip shows the title and percent). Priority is shown as an icon next to the title, not as the bar color.
- Today and weekends: today's column is highlighted and weekends are shaded, so it's easy to orient.
- Overdue: a bar for a task past its due date and not complete is styled to stand out.
Working from the Gantt
- Click a task's row or its bar to open the task detail panel, where you can edit dates, status, assignee, comment, and more.
- Date changes are made in that panel and, like every task change in AB Projects, are recorded with the user, timestamp, and the reason you enter, then posted to the linked Teams channel. (You change dates in the detail panel — bars aren't dragged or resized directly on the chart.)
- To change which tasks appear, use the project's shared filter panel (keyword, status, type, environment, assignee, completion). The Gantt shows whatever the current filter returns.
- The Gantt reflects the project's data when it loads; reopen or refresh to pull in changes made by teammates.
Tips
- Make sure tasks have realistic start and due dates — tasks without valid dates won't get a bar.
- Use it in planning or review meetings to spot overloaded periods and overdue work quickly.
- Filter by assignee or status before the meeting to focus the timeline on what matters.
- Keep dates current in the detail panel so the timeline stays trustworthy — every change is captured with its reason.
With the Gantt view, AB Projects turns your task dates into a clear, shared picture of the schedule — without leaving Microsoft Teams.