Gantt layout in timeline view
  • 08 Mar 2024
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Article summary

This article covers using Gantt layout in timeline view to streamline your team's and organization's work.

Introduction

Plan availability

Team, Business, and Enterprise Scale plans

Permissions

Gantt layout permissions are dependent on the associated timeline view permissions.

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app

Related reading

Airtable terminology

  • Gantt - The Gantt base view allows users to visually represent a project plan over time. It is a horizontal bar chart that helps teams clearly communicate a project’s entire timeline, from the start date to end date, keeping track of the status of each task in the project and who is responsible for each task

Gantt layout in timeline view overview

With the Gantt layout in timeline view, each record is visible in its lane, and dependencies are displayed as arrows between records (shown below). You can drag additional arrows between records to create dependency links.

Using Gantt layout in timeline view

Using Gantt layout in timeline view

NOTE

Check out our timeline overview article to learn how to add timeline views to bases.

  1. Visit your Airtable homepage.

  2. Open your preferred base.

  3. Select your preferred timeline view.

  4. Click Appearance in the menu and select the “Gantt” icon.

  1. Click the icon next to the “Record height” section and choose “Short.”

  2. Click the icon next to the “Record width” section and choose “Precise.”

Using Gantt layout in interface view

  1. Visit your Airtable homepage.

  2. Open your preferred base.

  3. Click Interfaces.

  4. Select your preferred timeline view.

Gantt layout in timeline view limitations

  • Gantt layout works in timeline view and is available in Airtable interfaces, while Gantt view is only available in bases.

  • All records must be "Short" in height and "Precise" in width to Gantt layout in timeline view.


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