Gantt View Weekends

CRL Planning

Is there any way when using a gantt chart to get the task bars not to show running through weekends.

This is not a major problem but we have had several of our customers who are more used to using MS Project asking us to show our charts in this way.

The ideal scenario would be if you have set the sheet to a 5 day working week then the sections of the bar that run across the non working time (see crossed areas in snip below) would go behind the weekend shading and not be seen and if you change to a 6 or 7 day working week they would return to being on top.

If this can't be done then thats OK but it would be a great feature improvement for a future update.

Regards

Murray (CRL Planning)

Cody Holmes

To confirm your experience, I could not find any way to limit the weekends from the Gantt view. I would suggest making a Smartsheet Enhancement Request here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form?EQBCT=739aa75f30ca43a8a22eb53e4da7d409&_ga=2.40092450.1441934852.1618838650-1589668858.1609254134

I know probably not the answer you were hoping for, but at least you get some confirmation.

mbayroff

I have seen this feature requested multiple times over the years and find it disappointing that it is still not available. SmartSheet makes it very difficult to consider using the tool for reporting, including executive reporting, because there is so much clutter on the Gantt view... predecessor lines, endless unworked weekends, etc. SmartSheet is forcing me to look at other tools with more extensive/modern features so I don't have to create these charts/reports manually.

Kate_K

If this is still not resolved in Smartsheet, you can take a closer look at DHTMLX Gantt. There it is possible to display the weekend elements above the task bars, and there are different ways of how to do that, for example: https://snippet.dhtmlx.com/21w15281

CRL Planning

I guess this feature request didn't find it's way to developer stage😒

I have had several more requests, since this last post, from our users and customers for the ability to show weekends over task bars in gantt view so I thought it was worth raising this again to see if it can be reconsidered.

This feature would make the use of Smartsheet gantt charts much Smarter

Murray (CRL Planning)

Georgie

Hi @CRL Planning,

There currently isn't a way to hide weekends/non-working days from the Gantt chart, or to stop the task bars running through those days. 

I found a similar idea post here: Hide non-working days in GANTT Views. Please add your vote to this idea if it matches your request. You’ll then receive updates when the status of the idea changes! 

If the request provided doesn’t quite match your suggestion, please create a new Idea Post in the Smartsheet Product Feedback and Ideas topic. This will allow other users to vote on your enhancement idea!

Thanks,

Georgie