Planned dates and actual visible on Gantt chart

Will Summers

I'm expecting my next project to be subject to a lot of external influences and dependencies. When faced with this challenge I like to show the original plan and the actual / newly forecast start and end dates to report upwards effectively and discuss the any slip.

So in effect each activity has an "originally planned" pair of dates and an "actual" pair of dates. I have added the "originally planned" date columns to my plan and was wondering whether it is possible to represent these on the Gantt view. The dependencies would only need to apply / be maintained against the actual dates.

Initially the two sets of dates would be the same but as slip is incurred the Gannt would provide a visual representation of the original plan vs achieved timelines.

I do not want to achieve this through duplicating tasks across two rows as this will make the plan too cumbersome to manage and use with stakeholders.

Chris McKay

Hi Will,

What you are looking for is referred to in project management as a Baseline.

This functionality is not natively supported in the application, however, Smartsheet has advised that it is on the near-term roadmap.

In the meanwhile, you can cheat with this guide although it's definitely limited in terms of functionality:

https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/quick-guide-mimicking-baseline-functionality-smartsheet

Kind regards,

Chris McKay

eric.muller65326

Any update on the roadmap for this topic?

 

Benjamin Ryan

I'd like to see this as well.

rssllyn

I am looking for this feature, too

Alan Sheridan

Hi Chris

 

This is a feature that would help, is it still in planning?

 

Alan

TI Corporativo

Hi Chris do you have some news about this feature?, or a clarify about what means "near-term",

 

Regards

 

Joe

Thomas Griffin

Hi Chris, 

 

Has there been any progress towards this feature, as your original post was 12 months ago? This feature would be highly useful. 

 

Thanks, 

Thomas

Vic Dragon

Just piling on here.  Is there any update on the estimated time frame for this functionality?  

 

The blog post link above seems to point to a page that is no longer available.  

 

Thanks,

Vic

Andrée Starå

Hi everyone,

Please submit an Enhancement Request when you have a moment to have your vote added

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Hope that helps!

Have a fantastic day!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

Steve Grinder

The functionality is in there now - works OK ...

a little quirky but it's better than nothing ... and I do like that you can easily turn off the "Show Baseline in Gantt"