How to create a Gantt view of a task list?

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Learn how to create a Gantt view of a task list in Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Now I’d like to create a Gantt view of my SharePoint task list. To do that I’ll click “Create View” and here I’ll choose a “Gant View”. I’ll just name this “Gant view” and here I’ll uncheck some of the fields that I’m not interested in seeing. Here I have a section called “Gant Columns”:

How to create a Gantt view of a task list

So these are the columns that will be used for the graphical view. So we’ll choose a title, which is the “Title” column. We’ll choose a start date, the due date, percent complete and predecessors.

And then we’ll click “OK”.

And here is my Gant view; this gives me a great visual representation of the status of our project. The tasks that have been completed have a gray bar running through the task and I can see the dependencies between the different tasks with this blue arrow.

How to create a Gantt view of a task list

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