Bugra Oktay Will baselines be available also in other views? Like the list or table view?

Bugra Oktay faster load is always appreciated. Thanks!

Josh Sommer: No promises atm but I'm hoping to get that tackled within this month.

Bugra Oktay Where do I toggle this on or off? Could you kindly provide a short demo?

Melanie von Schorlemer: Uploaded a video in my latest comment.

Bugra Oktay If you like, you can contact me back. Today I have been working on a schedule for an aerospace project (satellite construction), meaning I can tell quite some things that are missing and might help communication with the customer chain. This is also interesting to see what people are expecting to see and to do in Gantt chart. I leave the option open to you. If interested, I suppose you are able to check for my contact details. But in general, I like that ClickUp is doing their effort in building solid gantt charts for project management. Really necessary for project managers. Cheers !

Bugra Oktay I think milestones in project management are themselves much more than just icons, and should remain when other icons are not visible.

Bugra Oktay I would just leave as the milestone personally, its probably worth focussing elsewhere theres plenty more to improve on for gantt view

Bugra Oktay ALWAYS show milestones. When you present other task types, make them more noticable than any other.

Regarding the integration of task type icons on Gantt task blocks, my analysis strongly supports the following recommendations:

Should this be on by default?

Yes, this feature should be enabled by default. From an operational efficiency and user experience perspective, immediate visual identification of task types enhances clarity and reduces cognitive load for users managing complex project timelines. It optimizes data interpretation by providing a quick, at-a-glance understanding of diverse task natures without requiring users to inspect each task's details. Given the objective of a Gantt chart to provide a clear project overview, integrating visual cues directly into the task blocks aligns perfectly with best practices for intuitive information display. Maximizing user value and minimizing configuration overhead are key objectives, and making this functionality inherent and non-optional for all non-default task types would be the most effective approach.

Do milestones need special treatment or if icons are not shown, milestone icons shouldn't be shown either?

Milestones, by their very definition, represent critical points in a project timeline and are inherently distinct from standard tasks. Therefore, they warrant specific visual representation. If the general policy is to display icons for any non-default task type, milestones should undoubtedly receive a dedicated icon. This icon should be distinct and universally recognizable as a milestone marker, further reinforcing its critical status and providing immediate visual hierarchy within the project plan. Hiding milestone icons when other task type icons are shown would diminish their visual prominence and contradict their inherent importance. Consistency dictates that if visual differentiators are applied, critical project elements like milestones must also participate in this visual schema.

Bugra Oktay I vote for:

Task type icons on by default,

With the option to disable icons

Milestones should always be on, as the type is a unique standard element across all project planning.

Bugra Oktay

Yes, please have it on by default.

Yes, milesotnes need special treatment - they are an integral part of industry standard Gantt charts. The special treatment could be that the user can can toggle the Task types as a whole, but the Milestones individually. Heck, if you can toggle one task type individually, then make it possible to choose which tasks types show or not per type - then my gantt chart will work how I want it to, and the next person's will work how they want it to.

Once you have put task types in that spot on the gantt chart, are you going to put Dropdown & Label custom fields next?? Asking for a friend.

💯 Paul

Looks like I'm in the minority here Bugra Oktay, but the way we use TTs wouldn't have much bearing on our GANTT views. We... (I)... are using them primarily for product categories to help filter massive amounts of CFs. Milestones I can see being there by default, but we have no real need for TT icons in GANTT - at least as far as I can tell for now. I agree with a few other posters in here that think that there are probably more important GANTT features to spend efforts on.

Bugra Oktay, it's a great feature. I'm still getting the date range wider than the selected one. I'm not sure why is that.

Michał Mrzygłocki: is it consistently wider every time?

Bugra Oktay Hello. By asking to create new posts, metrics are lost regarding when each feature was requested and the time elapsed since waiting for them. ClickUp should have created branch posts with original posting date to reflect effective time it took or will have taken for the feature to be released.

Bugra Oktay Can we close this thread then at some point?