Set Up Gantt Chart Text Panels
Use the Gantt Chart Settings dialog to define general settings for a Gantt chart. Click the icon 'Control Panel' within the 'Main' toolbar. Another possibility to open this dialog is using the context menu, mouse right click at the Working Area, option 'Gantt Chart'.
Ways to access
Select the Text Panel tab.
Options
General
Several options are possible:
Show text panel - An enabled standard setting. If you deactivate this option the complete text panel will be hidden.
If the Gantt chart cell lies in a glued cell the text panel is always visible.
Width - Input field, it shows the complete width of the visible part of the text panel. This user-defined value can be changed.
Font - Press the button to change the standard basic font settings of font types and colors. See also the separated group element 'Header'.
Show numbering column - An enabled standard setting. If you deactivate this option the process numbering of the text panel will be hidden.
Show text panel On the left of the Gantt chart area - An enabled standard setting. If you activate this option the will be shown on the right side of the Gantt chart.
Hide date zone - An disabled standard setting. If you activate this option the time axis is hidden.
Summary Activity rows in bold font - An enabled standard setting. If you deactivate this option the summary Activity rows the summary Activities will be shown in regular font.
Control text panel by cell system - An inactive but enabled standard setting.
Header
Element group within the 'Text panel' to edit the appearance settings of the Gantt chart Header.
Font - Press the button to change the standard basic font settings of font types and colors.
Background - Drop-down menu of the user-colors palette to set user-defined Gantt chart background color.
Vertical lines
Element group within the 'Text panel' to edit the vertical lines appearance settings of the Gantt chart. Optionally this element group might me disabled by the item 'show'.
Style - Choose a line style from the drop-down menu to change the lines from the text panel.
Width - Input field, it indicates the width of the lines from the text panel. Zero (0) is the standard setting. This user-defined value can be changed.
Color - Drop-down menu to set user-defined colors for the vertical lines.
Columns
The following column headers of the Gantt chart are set as standard elements of the Text panel:
Barline title
ID (Index)
Start date
End date
The user-defined column headers can be edited. To add a column click the icon 'Add column' or if you want to delete a column select it and click the icon 'Remove column'.
To edit columns select the required column and click at the icon. For further details change to the help topic Gantt Column Setup.
To duplicate a column click the icon.
To change the order of the columns use the icons Line up and Line down.