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New Feature: Task Timing
March 31, 2016 by ganttic
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Ganttic Updates, Task Scheduling
This new feature - 'Timing by’ makes tasks more intuitive based on your needs. By providing a ‘Timing by’ rule, every time you move a task, your task’s length adheres to the rule that you set.
In this new release, we beefed up our task timing to accommodate more advanced uses of Ganttic.
As you can see from the screenshot below, we also rearranged the task dialog's elements for a better flow. Before we dive into task timing’s new feature, task type is now changeable in the dropdown - where you can change it to a holiday task instead. Below task title, there is a dropdown to assign the task to any project. At the end of the task dialog, custom data fields are also rearranged for a smoother flow.

1) Timing by Feature

- Timing by start and end: Your task starts and ends on the dates and timing that you set.
- Timing by start and duration: Your task starts on the date and time that you set; your task ends at the end of the duration period that you set.
- Timing by start and utilization: Your task starts on the date and time that you set; your task ends based on the busy time or utilization percentage that you set.
- Timing by end and duration: Your task ends on the date and time that you set; your task starts backdating to match the duration period that you set.
- Timing by end and utilization: Your task ends on the date and time that you set; your task starts backdating to match the busy time or utilization percentage that you set.
2) Utilization and busy time

3) Recurrence

4) Used time

On the whole, this new feature makes Ganttic much more intuitive and powerful than it was, as it provides down to the minute task adjustments that is applied even in rescheduled tasks. To give this feature a try, sign up to Ganttic for a free full-featured 14-day trial.
Author: Patricia Goh