Version History

4.1 - February 2025

• Auto Scheduling now behaves more in line with standard project management tools

• Support for Lead/Lag setting on individual dependencies

• Support for different dependency types (Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish, Start to Start)

• Support for color rule comparators (equals/not equals/contains)

• Fixed bug with Milestones not rendering correctly

4.0 - January 2025

This major release requires a manual update from either AppSource or the new install package. Contact your IT department for guidance.

Going forward, this will be the product version needed in order to automatically receive further minor features.

• Significant performance improvements in rendering and load times, including both view and edit property modes

• Styling update to more closely match SharePoint control styles

• Ability to copy a project or task via right click > Duplicate

• Option to display the total number of rows (Settings > Labels > Show total rows label)

• Now shows subscription or trial info in Property Pane

• Bugfix: fixed edge case for Days calculation

• Bugfix: fixed task colors when color scheme is based on parent task

• Bugfix: fixed task color update when changing status

• Numerous other minor bug fixes

3.18 - January 2025

New feature - the ability to change the maximum number of loadable list items from the existing fixed value of 500. Note that changing this value is not generally recommended.

3.17 - October 2024

Various bug fixes and security updates.

3.16 - August 2024

• Ability to convert between task, project or milestones. The right-click menu now allows converstion between these types:

• There is a new option to control the ability for users to delete tasks/projects. This new option is located under Settings > Edit Permissions. Note that a user can never delete if they only have read-only access.

• When creating a new List, the lookup fields are no longer added automatically. This is to prevent a bug in SharePoint where the list periodically fails to render.

• The color used for text within task bars will now automatically change between black and white, depending on which is most easily readable against the task background color.

3.13 - June 2024 Part 3

• Enhancement to task filtering - it's now possible to load parent tasks when a filter is applied: When applying a filter, matching items will be displayed. However, they will now be shown with their full parent task hierarchy: When this setting is enabled, it is no longer possible to dynamically load children, the option for which will become disabled: This is because tasks must by nature already be shown in the expanded state.

3.12 - June 2024 Part 2

• New tooltip design The existing tooltip had issues with not disappearing. A new tooltip design has been implemented, with a matching SharePoint look and feel, and will now correctly disappear when you move the cursor elsewhere.

3.11 - June 2024

• Right-click support You can now right-click on tasks to view the context menu with actions relevant to that item. This means you no longer need to scroll up to the top menu.

3.10 - May 2024

• Support for unscheduled tasks. If a task has a blank start date or end date, it is regarded as unscheduled. This means it will not affect the scale, duration days won't be calculated, and a bar won't appear in the gantt chart.

• Lead/lag time support. When 'enforce dependencies' is enabled, there is now a sub-option to maintain lead/lag, do not maintain lead lag, or don't move dependencies at all. "Lead/lag" refers to the time gap between a task and its dependent task. Note that when this setting takes effect when dragging the predecessor, not the successor.
• Support for Hyperlink fields in data grid You can now display a hyperlink in the data grid. Within a SharePoint field, you can also specify a 'Alternative text' which is used as the label. In the below example, the 🔗 emoji is configured as the alternative text:

3.9 - April 2024

Support for a 'Duration' column. This will automatically calculate the working days for each task and display the value in a configurable column.

The working days are configurable, but default to Monday-Friday.

3.8 - February 2024 (part 2)

• Support for SharePoint site date timezone. Until now, all dates were converted to the timezone of the user browser. However, this is at odds with the dates displayed in the SharePoint List and task editor panel. Now, the default for new installs will be to use the SharePoint timezone. For existing installs, the behaviour is unchanged, but can be updated within settings under Configuration > Labels:

3.7.3 - February 2024

• Support for custom fields within tooltips. See the Configuration > Labels section for this new option button:

3.7.2 - January 2024

• Fixed bug where start/end dates in data grid columns did not match task values after editing.

3.7 - November 2023

URL parameters for filtering the Gantt chart tasks are now supported.

See the Integration Guide for details.

3.6 - September 2023

• The Edit Permissions option now has several sub-options:

Allow new task creation controls whether the 'New' button is visible:

Allow task dragging controls whether tasks can be moved:

Allow task resize controls whether the start/end date can be changed by dragging:

Allow task progress update allows dragging of the progress icon:

• New option to show/hide the task tooltip: This is the tooltip:
• The scheduling option has been split out to several sub-options to more finely control the behaviour: Enforce dependencies means that dependant tasks are prevented from moving backwards beyond their predecessor end date. Auto move dependencies forward means that dependant tasks are now automatically moved forward as the parent task is moved.

3.5.1 - June 2023

Several bugfixes and minor updates.

3.5 - April 2023

• Dependency link enforcement is now available. This means that: 1. Dependant tasks are now automatically moved forward as the parent task is moved, and 2. Dependant tasks are prevented from moving backwards beyond their predecessor end date. See the below animation which illustrates these two concepts: This behaviour is on by default on new installs, and can be enabled/disabled under Settings > Scheduling:
• Audience targeting. You may now nominate specific users which are permitted for task editing:
• Custom list name. When adding the Gantt web part to a page, you can now specify the background list name:
• Several bug fixes, including: - Generating a code correctly for new tasks (which will allow correctly persisted ordering) - Fixed scrollbars when a custom grid is in use

3.3.2 - March 2023

• Column sorting is now disabled by default, and enabled via a new setting:
• Expand on load now has an additional option - expand first level. This will result in only the top-level tasks being expanded initially:
• Percentage complete values are only now shown on projects when the value is non-zero.

3.3 - February 2023

This release brings some significant performance enhancements with support for filtering and dynamic loading. More information about this can be found in the documentation.

• Views can be configured in one of two ways: firstly, a default view can be set, from which data is loaded into the Gantt. Secondly, a drop-down menu can be configured so that end users can select a view.

• Fields can be nominated to allow end-user filtering on that field:

• Support for custom statuses: These are configured under Settings > Task Status. Each status can have custom styling - either a strikethrough, or a color;

3.2.1 - January 2023

This minor update addresses a number of bugs and includes several minor enhancements.

• Sorting now works correctly on custom grid columns:
• During initial installation, it is now possible to create the list either as a hidden or a visible list. Hidden lists do not appear in the Site Contents, navigation, or Microsoft Lists app.
• Fixed an issue whereby custom grouping causes the height of the webpart to be incorrectly calculated, and an undesired scrollbar appeared.

• SharePoint fields did not appear in the options if they began with a non-alphanumeric character.

• Support for full-width web parts on Team Sites. Normally, full-width is only supported on Communication Sites within the full-width column. To enable full-width on a Team Site web part, tick the option allow full width under Layout:

3.2 - December 2022

This release brings a significant number of major new features.

• Split Task Mode! Ability to display subtasks on a single line: This is enabled via the new setting under Settings > Layout: If up to two split tasks overlap, they will be shown on separate lines: If additional tasks overlap, they will become slightly transparent so that they can be distinguished: In this case however, it is recommended to use separate colors, or avoid split task mode.
• Status menu: Setting a task status can now be done via the Edit menu: When a task is complete, it will be displayed with a strikethrough: When a task is Late, it will be displayed in red:
• Task colors can now be configured using custom rules. For example, to display Completed tasks in blue and On Schedule tasks in Green, the rules would be configured as follows: Note that any number of rules can be configured, but the first rule to match the task will be applied to the task.
• Custom markers can now be configured for your timeline. Previously, only the 'today' marker was available. Each marker has a title, details, color and date:
• Hide dependencies: a new option is available to optionally show dependency lines

Minor changes and bugfixes:

• The font face has now been updated to match the SharePoint Online font face.

• When a custom sort field is selected, a secondary sort of Start Date will be applied, followed by a tertiary sort of Title.

• When a custom header is applied to the Title field, it is now correctly applied.

• Column headers in the data grid are now left aligned.

3.1 - November 2022

Support for setting the maximum number of 'persona' icons:

Option to customise the week display as week of the year (1-52):

Option to set a maximum height for the web part, to introduce a vertical scrollbar, in the case of large numbers of tasks:

1.0 - October 2022

The initial version was released in October 2022. There was significant development after this initial release.