Hide non-working days in a Gantt chart 1

[lsmyth1717]

Does anyone know if there is a way to hide non-working days (e.g. Saturday, Sunday and overnight) in a Gantt chart?

I am trying to compare how long different tasks will take in terms of working hours, not actual time, and the non-working hours make some tasks look as if they are taking much longer than they should be.

Cheers..

 

[PDQBach]

A common question.

Short answer: no.

Long answer: no.

There are some "workarounds", none of them satisfactory. The issue only arises when you want one of the scales in the timescale to be days. If you choose Months and Weeks you won't see the vertical bars.

You could (for your analysis puposes) change the working time so that Saturdays and Sundays are working days. Then the bar lengths would show what you want.

But, frankly, I don't understand your focus on pretty pictures. You're doing your analysis by looking at bar lengths ("... the non-working hours make some tasks look as if they are taking much longer than they should be...") when you should be focusing on the numbers that make up the bars.

 

[lsmyth1717]

Unfortunately it isn't up to me - its my manager who likes the pretty pictures.

Having Saturdays and Sundays as working days may work in this case - I'll give it a go.

Cheers..

 

[PDQBach]

The biggest problem here is:

Task 1: 5 people on an all day workshop to identify all screens for a new system.

Task 2: 1 person working solidly for two days defining a single complex screen.

Task 3: 1 person working intermittently doing 8 hours of work over a month (with reviews, recycles and refreshes) preparing a presentation to the user community.

Task 1 has a Gantt bar 1 day long.
Task 2 has a Gantt bar 2 days long.
Task 3 has a Gantt bar 30 days long.

The Gantt bars show duration not work.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that your manager likes stoplights in the project and task status. Sigh.

(Where is a baseball bat when it is truly needed?)