Gantt Chart

The view is split into two panes. On the left, the task list shows key fields—Title, Start, End, Duration (in whole working days), Status/% Complete, and Owner. Rows are hierarchical: parent rows roll up start/end from their children, and all dates are normalized to full days (start at 00:00, end at 00:00 next day). Inline edits in the grid immediately reflect in the bars on the right.

The right pane is the graphical timeline. Each task renders as a bar; milestones show as diamonds. Weekends are visually distinct, and a “Today” marker helps orient progress. Zoom and horizontal scroll let you navigate large plans; on load, the chart snaps the left edge to the project’s earliest start so the beginning is always visible. Selecting a row highlights the corresponding bar (and vice versa), keeping both panes in sync.

Your dependency model (Finish–Start links) is enforced by task logic: when a predecessor moves, successors recalculate respecting working days and weekends. Custom icons in the grid surface linked EA artefacts (e.g., requirement, risk, issue) with tooltips and quick navigation back to EA. Common actions—add successor, set milestone, expand/collapse, and Find/Replace for dates—are available via toolbar and context menu.

The Related Elements column shows everything connected to a task at a glance. Each item shows as a compact icon (e.g., Requirement, Risk, Issue, Test), with a tooltip naming the element and its status. Clicking an icon opens the target in EA (or the detail pane), so you can jump straight from plan to model. If multiple links exist, icons stack with small count badges. This keeps the grid clean while making traceability obvious: you can see which tasks deliver requirements, mitigate risks, or verify via tests—without leaving the Gantt.

In EA’s Project Browser the plan appears as a tidy tree: a “Project Plan” package (or similar) with parent tasks as top-level nodes and child tasks indented beneath them.  The hierarchy mirrors the Gantt’s left pane, so expanding a parent shows its work breakdown at a glance. If you prefix names with Work Breakdown Structure codes (e.g., 1.2.3 Build UI), ordering is instantly clear even outside the chart. From any task node you can jump to Traceability to see linked requirements, risks, issues, and tests—the same relationships you surface in the “Related Elements” column—keeping navigation between plan and model intuitive.

You can now make use of all the great diagrams which EA already offers to link tasks to other elements.

To link a Task to something else, just create a ‘Dependency’ connector, and the Portfolio Manager Gantt Chart will show those elements in the ‘Related Elements’ column.