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How to Work with the Gantt View Toolbar

Some toolbar options become active only when you select items in the work breakdown structure. If you do not have the access right, a toolbar option can be disabled.

You can use the icons on the Gantt view toolbar to do the following:

Icon

Action

This illustration shows the Save icon.

Saves your changes.

Note: Your changes are saved only when you explicitly save.

This illustration shows Discard Changes icon.

Discards your currently unsaved changes.

This illustration shows the Create New Task icon.

Inserts a new task in the WBS.

his illustration shows the Copy Task from Template icon.

Copies a task from a project template.

This illustration shows the Add Existing Subproject icon.

Adds an existing subproject to the WBS.

This illustration shows the Create New Project icon.

Creates a subproject and adds it to the WBS.

This illustration shows the Create New Project From Template icon.

Creates a subproject from a project template and adds it to the WBS.

This illustration shows the Assign icon.

Assigns a resource to the selected task.

This illustration shows the Oudent icon.

Outdents the selected task.

This illustration shows the Indent icon.

Indents the selected task.

This illustration shows the Move icon.

Moves the selected task.

This illustration shows the Link icon.

Creates a task dependency between the selected tasks.

This illustration shows the Unlink icon.

Removes task dependencies between the selected tasks.

This illustration shows the Expand All icon.

Expands all tasks in the WBS.

This illustration shows the Collapse All icon.

Collapses all tasks in the WBS.

This illustration shows the Unlock icon.

Indicates the project is locked. Hovering over the icon indicates the user that locked the project. If you have administrative rights, you can click the icon to unlock the project.

A project is automatically locked when there are pending edits for it. The lock is removed when you save or discard the edits or if you unlock the project.

This illustration shows the Project Not Locked icon.

Indicates the project is not locked.

This illustration shows the Autoschedule with Options icon.

Auto-schedules with options.

This illustration shows the Autoschedule with Publish icon.

Auto-schedules and publishes the new schedule.

The illustration shows the Create Tentative Schedule icon

Creates a tentative schedule

This illustration shows the Publish Tentative Schedule icon.

Publishes the tentative schedule.

This illustration shows the Delete Tentative Schedule icon.

Deletes the tentative schedule.

This illustration shows the Create Baseline icon.

Create a project baseline.

This illustration shows the Update Task Baseline icon.

Updates the task baseline for the selected task.

The illustration shows the Update Cost Totals icon

Updates cost totals

This illustration shows the Delete Task icon.

Deletes a task or removes a subproject from the master project.

This illustration shows the View Legend icon.

Displays the legend for the Gantt chart.

This illustration shows the Timescale icon.

Defines the timescale for the Gantt chart.

The illustration shows the Collapse the Gantt View icon

Collapses the Gantt view to display only the WBS.