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Before we introduce you to this part, we'll give you a learning of oef the basic elements.

The essentials

Activities

When you are creating your gannt view it's build up by activities, which is a placeholder of the different types of objects which can be created or related to a project in Microbizz.

You can use the keyboard and shortcuts in this view and you can see a guide, when pressing the HELP button.

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Groups

Groups are created automatically if an activity or object is indent below it. 

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Duration, estimate, progress and dependencies

When you have created your activities and groups, you can now edit the duration, which is number of working days between the start- and end date.

Estimate is the estimated time for the activity which can be used when creating tasks afterwards.

Progress is a manual setting of the completion of the current activity or group. Group progress is automatically calculated with the sub activities.

Dependencies is used to set a relation between the start- and end dates of different activities.

See example of the use below.

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Types - Change activities to tasks, appointments or spacers

When the gannt view is created, you can now use type to change the activity to a task, appointment or spacer.

This is done by right-clicking on the type-icon and selecting the wanted object for the current activity.

Spacers are used to separate phases, to be able to make a better view of the current project if desired.

Tasks can be created as you click or it can be selected from a template, so next time you left-click it, it will go to the creation of the task with the selected template.

See example below.

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Existing tasks and appointments

It's possible to attach previously created tasks and appointments to new projects and it's shown below how to attach and select it in the project afterwards.

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Columns

Here you can set which columns from the objects that should be showed in the gannt-sheet below.

You can select column information from tasks and appointments as shown below

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Setup

Here you can set up styles, colors for the gannt view and work weeks for the project. These can be changed per project but the default is setup in the SETTINGS > SETUP.

The information is grouped into their type which is showed and explained below:

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Tasks

This information is available in the gannt view and you can set up which information to be showed when viewing tasks in the gannt view.

It's possible to show information above, below, right and left each gannt element and depending on the gannt-type.

As seen in previous example above, we're showing task title, status, start- and end date in the gannt view.

Appointments

This information is available in the gannt view and you can set up which information to be showed when viewing appointments in the gannt view.

It's possible to show information above, below, right and left each gannt element and depending on the gannt-type.

As seen in previous example above, we're showing task title, status, start- and end date in the gannt view.

Group

This information is available in the gannt view and you can set up which information to be showed when viewing appointments in the gannt view.

It's possible to show information above, below, right and left each gannt element and depending on the gannt-type.

As seen in previous example above, we're showing task title, status, start- and end date in the gannt view.

Activity

This information is available in the gannt view and you can set up which information to be showed when viewing activity in the gannt view.

It's possible to show information above, below, right and left each gannt element and depending on the gannt-type.

As seen in previous example above, we're showing task title, status, start- and end date in the gannt view.

Colors

These colors are available in the gannt view and you can set up which colors to be showed when viewing the different elements in the gannt view.

As seen in previous example above, we're changing the displayed colors in the gannt view.

Work week

Doesn't work at the moment - to be continued.As seen below, an example of how a simple gantt project could look like.

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The left side: (data side)

Here we see the data representation of the plan. This is where the user will input information to create a project plan.

The data objects are:

• Activities and groups: Each row represent an activity. Something that has to be done in order to complete the project. Activity groups are used to group/relate activities together
• Tasks: When an activity needs to be completed, it is useful to attach a task to it, as it will then be possible to execute as normal tasks are done
• Calendar appointments: Meetings are often an important part of a project, and therefore the activities can be attached to calendar appointments 

The right side: (gantt side)

Here we see the result of the input data from the left side.

A visual representation of the project plan, giving the viewer a simple and easy to read timeline of the project.

There are also some interaction options centered around the ability to plan tasks and calendar appointments.

See how to create timelines in the following pages.