Gantt Chart Features of VARCHART XGantt

Customize the sections of a standard Gantt chart to your needs. Let your users adapt the size of the different sections in the Gantt view using horizontal and vertical dividers. Our Gantt charts allow to switch between different views, for example between a resource and an order related view. Also, different histograms can be switched off or on to show the work load for one or more resources.

Use multiple Gantt instances to let your users assign resources to tasks by simple drag&drop interactions. Synchronize the instances by the same time scale for simultaneous horizontal scrolling.

Gain visual clarity of your data by structuring the table of the Gantt chart hierarchically. Collect the elements of a group below a group title and repeat this for several grouping levels. Let your users collapse and expand groups in the Gantt chart according to what they have to focus on. 
Our Gantt charts provides versatile node layers that allow for an appearance similar to the table fields even in the Gantt graph.

If a hierarchical structure code is available in the data of your Gantt chart, display it in the arrangement of your table and make the different levels recognizable by the indentation of a graphical tree structure.

Our Gantt charts allow to configure the table appearance by using various line formats for different levels or for different highlighting purposes and lets you display individual columns of your data.

Have your individual tooltip information displayed by our Gantt charts when the mouse hovers above a task. Customize the drag interactions for your users to let them move a task vertically and horizontally or prevent them from doing so. Edit your data in-place, if they are displayed as annotations inside or outside the bar.

Our Gantt charts allow to switch back and forth between basic, overlaid and optimized layout of your tasks in the Gantt graph. 

2. Links in the Gantt Graph

Our Gantt chart software lets you display dependencies between tasks in the shape of links, with a clear line routing that does not allow any ambiguity. Indicate the different link types graphically and highlight them according to your data. Create, delete or modify links interactively by simple drag&drop interactions.

3. Calendar Data in the Gantt Graph

Visualize the availability of resources based on configurable calendar data. This Gantt chart software lets you display working and idle hours by a locally limited and transparent graphical calendar grid. Assign each resource or resource group its own calendar grid or use multiple grids to combine a shut down period with a normal working calendar.

Define annotated and slidable date lines in the foreground or background of your Gantt graph in order to emphasize important dates in your application like the start of production or others.

5. Summary Bars in a Gantt Graph

This Gantt chart software lets you generate summary bars for groupings or hierarchical levels in your layout. Their start and end dates derive from the dates of the subordinated tasks. If the earliest date of the subordinated tasks is modified, the early date of the corresponding summary bar will change accordingly. Use the same variety of styles and symbols that are available to tasks in the Gantt chart also to graphically visualize the summary bars.

6. Text and Graphics Boxes in the Gantt Graph

Use our Gantt chart software for presentation purposes and supply the chart with editable text or graphics boxes which can be tied to a task in a way that they move along when the task is moved interactively.

Assemble your individual time scale from different time ribbons ranging from seconds to years, including special ribbons for shifts, calendar weeks, fiscal quarters or fiscal years. Combine Gregorian time ribbons with serial time ribbons for your specific company calendar. Localize month and weekday names for different languages.

Save space in your Gantt chart by collapsing idle times in the time scale according to a given calendar; our Gantt software can, for example, collapse the night hours of an hourly scale, in case an application needs to display the time from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm only.

Let your users zoom the time scale in and out, as needed, or let them auto-scale it so that it fits into their window or fills the pages of a print-out.

Our Gantt software allows to focus on a specific time span in detail without losing sight of the past and future of the time span by dividing the time scale into sections of different resolutions.

This Gantt chart software lets you extend a Gantt chart by the histogram section in order to display resource workloads or cost curves in your application. The histogram uses the same time scale as the Gantt graph and is fully synchronized with it. The curve data are either generated from the task data or are defined independently by the API. Thus a bar being moved in the Gantt graph also is reflected in the generated workload curve accordingly. Beside the time scale a configurable numerical scale serves as Y-axis.

Visualize the available capacities of your resources combined with the actual resource workload in different curves, and highlight overload and shortfall areas independently by different patterns and colors.

Select the page layout and preview it in the integrated print preview. Specify which sections of a Gantt chart are to be repeated on each page and what the title and legend should look like. Auto-scale the time scale in a way that the full page width is used for a page. Create PDF files in order to communicate your Gantt charts in a digital standard format.