TeamworkPM’s Engine Room

We added the Project Chart feature over a year ago and since then it hasn't receive any love. This month we decided to revisit this feature, gut what we did before and start again.
The result is a more useful, better looking and printable chart.
We took all feedback in to consideration and we love how it turned out.

The big change here has been the underlying technology used to build the chart. The old chart was built in Flash. This was fine at the time but with the rise of Apple and their lack of love for Flash meant that it didn’t work on iPads or iPhones. This also caused issues when it came to trying to print the chart for meetings.
We decided this time we would scrap Flash and completely rewrite it. This means that the new project chart is fully supported on all iOS devices and it also has the ability to generate a great printable view.

As well as updating the look of the chart we have also added a few more goodies to it. You now have the option to filter milestones on the chart as some charts where becoming very cluttered with the amount of milestones used in each project.

We then added the ability to filter the chart by company. This allows you to just display one company at a time so you can get a better idea of where a specific company's project's start, end and overlap.
The last feature is the tool tips on the chart. If you place you mouse over a milestone or over a project bar it will display extra information about each such as who is responsible, due dates and the completion status.

We hope you find this update to the chart really useful and as always any feedback you have on this, please let us know.

Over the last few years we have received lots of requests from users wanting to generate a Gantt chart view of their projects. We have been in two minds about adding this feature as a core Teamwork feature as we feel Gantt charts are only really interesting to a small percentage of our users. Since our tag line has has ways been, Project Management Made Easy, we felt adding Gantt charts could potentially scare the pants off our target user base.

Last week we bit the bullet and released a feature that hopefully looks after both camps - those who want Gantt charts and those who want easy project management. Instead of going full force into the charting world we decided the best approach would be to interface with existing Gantt applications. We have built in a new Export to Gantt feature. You now have the ability to export your Tasks and Milestones to either MS Project or the free Gantt chart viewer called Gantt Project.

There are a number of ways to export your data:

1: Via the task page. Go to the bottom of the column on the left and select Gantt chart export:

You will be presented with a choice to export to MS Project or Gantt Project format. Select the option which applies to you.

If you go with Gantt Project export as your choice, we also supply you with a link to download the free viewer if you don’t already have one.
Once the viewer is downloaded and running choose the import option and then click on your downloaded file to see your project within Gantt Project.

2. Via the project options page. Click the Project Settings tab in a project and choose Gantt Chart Export