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The Gantt Chart needs to be more like Microsoft Project

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Level 2

4/30/24

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Why is this feature important to you - The visuals in Workfront under the Gantt section are not visually easy to work with.  Right now my team will use Microsoft project to get the visual and because it is easier to set up the project and then upload into Workfront.  Why should we have Workfront if they are doing the Work in Microsoft?

 

Also, Microsoft project works a lot like Excel when it comes to filling a series.  For example: you have a user that is responsible for multiple tasks.  Microsoft project lets you fill and copy down.  Workfront makes you go into edit mode in order to do that.  Just an extra step.

 

My feedback: study Microsoft Project and look at the visuals that they created and how easy it is to quickly fill in names and other items.  

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Level 2

5/2/24

I totally agree. Even more, I think that the Gantt Chart Visualization in Workfront is one of the worst ever seen, even free-to-use tools like Instagantt or Teamgantt have a better visualization, and a better working Gantt (i.e. dependencies and predecessor can be drawn directly in the Gantt simply dragging to name a few).
While Workfront is superior in many (all) other aspects, some should be thought of more deeply.
Sometimes is better to "Copy with Pride", especially when something has become de facto an industry standard.

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Level 7

5/9/24

With improvements to the Gantt chart, I would also like to see it be easier to print Gantt charts.  Something similar to how you can print an Excel sheet would be ideal.