BigGantt 8.6.0 Release notes

Change log in Gantt module

See and understand the history of changes made in your Gantt charts

Coordinating complex initiatives is becoming way easier. Now, you can track every change in every work item’s dates and date ranges and immediately understand the situation.


Undo option in the Gantt module

Reverse changes easily. Now, date and date range changes that you apply by drag-and-drop moving or resizing items on your Gantt chart can be easily reversed by clicking the Undo button. The button gets activated whenever you carry out an action that can be reversed. Convenient, isn’t it?


Hide greyed-out tasks in the Gantt module

Manage tasks on Gantt and Board modules with greater clarity. Be it agile management of agile initiatives in the Board module or classic projects on Gantt, now you can achieve a neat, informative view by hiding all irrelevant (filter-based greyed-out) items.


Bulk-moving tasks on Gantt

This UI improvement is here to save you a lot of time when editing your Gantt charts. You can move multiple items at once and they will all get updated in line with the system’s scheduling rules. Fewer repetitive actions - more time for actual management.


In-line editing of individual resources

Assign tasks to individual resources directly in BigGantt columns and task-detail cards using in-line editing.


CategoryFeature descriptionSneak peek
Navigation and layout




Navigating to scope definition 

When there's nothing to display, splash screens in the modules (Gantt, Scope, Board, Resources, Calendar) provide direct access to scope definition.


Scope definition

The "Manually Added Tasks" section is available only when it contains at least one task.

Scheduling

Tasks in the "auto top-down" period mode are scheduled on Working Days

The app recognizes weekends and other days off and moves a task to accommodate them. 


Critical path

The Critical Path does not include tasks that are not immediate neighbors

  • The path is calculated from the end (the last task(s) in the project)
  • The algorithm works backward looking for strong links connecting tasks
  • The most direct path (without a time gap between tasks) is highlighted
  • A gap between tasks is allowed only if an ASAP link has "/wiki/spaces/BIGGANTT/pages/315394021" added

Scope cloning Original estimate values are copied during the cloning process

Scope definition

Task structure - templates

You can select a task structure template:

  • Agile
  • Agile (multiple projects)
  • Release

Custom settings are still available. 

Task structure - manual changes

Clear just the changes that were manually made to the task structure. The structure that was based on the structure builders is not affected. 

RETIRED - Manually removed tasks section no longer available

Manually removed task → task moved from one Box with scope type set to "Own" to another with the scope type also set to "Own."

Moving a task between different own scopes is not possible - drag and drop is disabled on the Board module.

The manually removed tasks section was removed from the scope definition screen. Existing manually removed tasks are still in effect).