Timelines are used to keep track of big picture tasks in a Gantt chart view. Timelines are great for creating complex production schedules to share with your team.
Creating a Timeline #
To create a timeline, simply head over to a project and go to the Timelines tab, then click the New button. You will be prompted to enter a name for the timeline, as well as timezone, start and end times, etc.
Rows #
Once you have created a timeline, you can now begin the process of adding rows to it. There are 2 different types of rows… Rows, and tasks.
Rows will appear in the timeline as a single row, however if you would like multiple timeline items in a single row, you can do this by adding a task to a row (see Tasks below).
To create a task, simply click the Add Task button in the lower right corner of the day you would like to add the task to. This will open a modal that will let you enter the task’s details such as name, description, start and end times, as well as a color.
There are 2 ways to edit a task:
- Click on the row’s timeline bar.
- Click on the row’s name in the left most column, then click Edit.
Tasks #
As outlined above, tasks can be added to rows to create multiple timeline items in a single row.
There are 2 different ways of adding tasks:
- Click on the name of an existing row, then select Add Task.
- To quick-add, hover over an empty part of a row’s row and click directly underneath the time you would like to add a task. This will automatically open the New Task modal with the Starts At time pre-set to the time you clicked under.
Editing tasks is done by clicking on the task’s timeline bar.
Reordering Rows #
You can reorder rows by hovering over a row’s name and selecting Move Up or Move Down.