Saturday, March 21, 2009

GanttProject FAQ

How to change week numbering?

GanttProject uses calendar settings corresponding to the chosen interface language. Switching interface language to e.g. French will start Week 1 in 2016 on Jan 4. If you're using English interface language then you can choose between English US (it is just "English" in GanttProject settings) and start Week 1 on December 28 (correct for US) and English (United Kingdom) which follows European standards.


Where can I find a user guide or manual?

We have no user guides or manuals, sorry. Instead, we can offer you an application which is so easy to use that needs no manuals, provided that you don't need guidance in project scheduling per se. If you still need to see how to do the basic actions, consider watching this awesome video tutorial. Some of the tricky bits and rough corners are documented at http://docs.ganttproject.biz


Is it possible to use hours as task duration?

No.


Can GanttProject do resource leveling?

No.


I can't change the dates of my tasks!

Usually it means that either there is a dependency between your tasks and GanttProject is just doing its job and is trying to make your constraints happy. Please read the article "GanttProject Scheduler Explained" which may help you to understand what exactly forbids dates change.

If you don't find the answer in the article and believe that there is nothing in your data which prevents tasks from being moved, please submit a new ticket to the issue tracker, supply a reproducible scenario and attach an example project file.

Friday, March 13, 2009

GanttProject in Linux Format#116

Linux Format published a review of five project planning applications for Linux in its March issue. The review includes GanttProject, OpenProj, TaskJuggler, KPlato and Planner. It is not very deep, but well written. The author even composed his own text instead of copying phrases and images from our website. Respect :)