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Maintain Gantt - Colour and Linkages

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  • November 3, 2025
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When showing the Activity task/operations within the Gantt chart, they only display as a grey bar, unlike the Activity that can be colour coded based on some of the column values. The task/operation colour is difficult to see though, being able to customize these colours too, would be beneficial. Or have them align to the same colour as the parent Activity.

Likewise, for true scheduling, it would be nice to see the dependencies or linkages between tasks, under a given Operation. This unlocks more detailed scheduling capabilities.

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Que Tran
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  • November 7, 2025

Hi ​@Jordan Joorisity ,

Thanks for your suggestion! The Product Manager for this area will review it and may contact you for more details if needed. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

 

Best regards,

Que Tran


Marius Biermann
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  • November 10, 2025

Hi ​@Jordan Joorisity ! Thanks for reaching out. Color-coding for operations is quite limited at the moment — the main option available is to color by phase (i.e. pre-work, execution, or post-work). Would that be relevant for your use case?

Otherwise, make note that I would avoid using Maintain for Scheduling rather integrate the schedule from more dedicated scheduling systems like P6 or Prometheus.  

Let me know if you want to discuss this further!


@Marius Biermann thanks for the update.

We are not currently using Maintain for scheduling, its functionality is more useful in exploring work scope bundling opportunities. The problem here is that bundling is done on a task level, not a work order/activity level. Beyond planning, there is not much that is done at the parent activity level, the operations become the important details.

Thanks though, I can always modify the config file to force the operations to show as an activity row, rather than the expanded list.