In the Gantt Chart, the cursor may change, depending where you are in the task bar.

	When the cursor is above most parts of the task bar it changes to a 4-way arrow. When in this mode you can drag tasks to the right or left to change the starting and ending times of the task.
	When the cursor is on the right end of the task bar it changes to a 2-way arrow. When in this mode you can also grab the end-point of a task and stretch it to the left or right to shorten or expand the length of the task.
	When the cursor is just past the left end of the task bar it changes to a pencil. When in this mode, you can drag across the task bar to fill in a dark area in the middle of the bar to indicate what portion of the task has been completed. When you do this, you will see a series of little squares in the group marker for that group indicating the percentage complete for all the tasks within the group.

There are a vriety of different things you can do to make the Gantt Chart work for you and your organization's projects. These are:

Reading the Chart	To the left of each Task is displayed the Owner and the length of the task in Days, Hours, Minute (#d#h) format. On top of each task bar is the description of the task. Groups are indicated a a bar with angled ends spanning all of the tasks in the group in the Treelist.
Changing Colours	Different tasks can be given different colours. These can be changed using the Gantt chart context menus. Click here for more information.
Suspending Tasks	In one of the tasks you can see a gap in the middle of the task bar. This represents a suspension in the task... a time during which no work can be done on it. Click here to go to the Task Suspensions portion of the documentation. At this time, you can only have a single suspension in a given task. If you need more than this, break the task down into multiple tasks.
Task Relationships	You can also use arrows to connect tasks. These arrows indocate a replationship between the tasks. Tasks can have the following relationships: Start-to-Start Finish-to-Finish Finish-to-start Click here for more information on how to set up relationships between tasks.
Detail Subwindow	If you click on a task, the detail area will open at the bottom of the window where you can edit information about the task. Click here for more information on the Detail Sub-window. To Close the Detail Sub-window, click the Normal button in the Projects Toolbar / Ribbon bar.
Create New Task	You can create a task in this window by clicking your mouse button and dragging your cursor across a portion of the calendar where there is no task bar. When you release the mouse button, a create new task window will open with the dates and times you specified by clicking and dragging. Click here for information on adding a task.

Relationships between tasks are an important part of Charting. You can define relationships between tasks on the Gantt Chart for your project using the following process and you can edit these relationships on the Relationships tab of the Detail Editing Sub-Menu. Click here for more information on editing relationships.

To add a relationship, you would perform the following steps:

1. Click on one task and drag from one task to another.

   

   You will see a "string" that connects the two tasks. The Select Relationships Between Two Tasks window opens.

   

2. Make your selection by clicking on the appropriate button:

   - Start to Start - Ties the starting time of the two tasks together.

   - Finish to Finish - Ties the end time of the two tasks together.

   - Start to Finish - Ties the end time of one task to the starting time of the second.

3. If required, you can select a time delay for the relationship. Enter a number and/or select the appropriate time period for the drop down list.

   

4. When your relationship is set up click the Create button.