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Switch between the new and classic Gantt

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Onplana has two Gantt charts. The new one is what you get unless you have said otherwise, and it is the one Plan on the Gantt chart describes. The classic chart is still there, one button away, and this page is about choosing between them.

Which one am I looking at?

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Look at the button just above the chart, on the right. It always offers the chart you are not using:

  • Back to the classic Gantt means you are on the new chart.
  • Use the new Gantt means you are on the classic one.

Why a colleague may see a different chart

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The choice is yours alone. It is stored in your own browser, per person, so nothing you do here moves anyone else, and no administrator sets it for the team.

That leaves three groups, which is usually the explanation when two people describe the same project differently:

  • You never touched the toggle. You are on the new chart.
  • You tried the new chart earlier and kept it. No change, you were already there.
  • You tried it earlier and switched back. You are still on the classic chart, and will stay there until you switch again. This is the group most likely to be surprised, because everyone around them moved and they did not.

Switch to the other chart

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  1. Open a project, open the Tasks tab, and choose Gantt.

  2. Find the button above the top-right corner of the chart.

  3. Click it. The chart is replaced immediately, and the choice is remembered for next time.

Nothing about your project changes. Both charts read and write the same tasks, dates and dependencies, so switching is a change of view and never a change of plan.

What the new chart adds

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The short version, with the detail in Plan on the Gantt chart:

  • Edit in the task list. Names and both dates are editable in place, one click to put the caret in the cell.
  • Add work without leaving the chart. A task or a subtask, from the toolbar or from the row you are looking at.
  • Draw a dependency. Drag from the handle on one bar onto another and the link is saved.
  • Find a task by name, with the parent rows kept for context.
  • It opens at a sensible scale, chosen from how long your project runs rather than always starting at the same one.
  • Sort the list by any column.

What the classic chart still does

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Three things, and the first is the one worth knowing about:

  • It tells you about tasks with no dates. A bar needs a start and a due date, so a task missing either cannot be drawn on either chart. The classic chart says so, with a badge and a count. The new chart simply leaves those tasks out, so a project can look smaller than it is with nothing on screen explaining why.
  • It can hide subtasks. The classic chart has a Show subtasks toggle, so a deep project can be collapsed to its top-level rows in one click. On the new chart subtasks are always present, and you collapse parents individually instead.
  • It has an editable Hours column. The new chart’s task list is Name, From, To and Days. Estimated hours are still there on the task form, on both charts, but only the classic grid puts them in a column.

If the new chart does not load

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You get a card saying so, with a Retry button and a Back to the classic Gantt button on the card itself. The second one is the important one: it puts you on a working chart immediately rather than leaving you to find the toggle. Taking it also records the preference, so refresh and you are still on the classic chart.

FAQs

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Is the classic chart going away? Not today, and not without notice. It is the fallback when the new chart has a problem, so it stays while that is still worth having.

Can an administrator put everyone on one chart? No. The preference is per person and per browser; there is no organization-wide setting for it.

Do I lose anything by switching back and forth? No. Both charts render the same project data. Your view settings inside a chart, such as the timescale and column widths, belong to that chart.

Which plans have this? Both charts are on every plan, Free included, along with the critical path, all four dependency types and the baseline overlay. See Compare plans and upgrade.

I switched and the chart looks the same. Check the button above the chart again. If it now reads Back to the classic Gantt, you are on the new chart. The two look similar at a glance; the quickest tell is the task list, which reads Name, From, To and Days on the new chart.

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