SharePoint 2010 : Create a Personal or Public View for a List or Library (part 3) - Create a Gantt View

Create a Gantt View

A Gantt view displays items based on date columns—very much like the calendar view. However, it shows the items in a Gantt chart, where each item is displayed as if it were a task in a project plan. A tabular version of the view appears to the left of the chart, showing more details on the list items (see Figure 8).

Figure 8. The Gantt view for an events list.

Creating a Gantt view is similar to creating a standard view. Select the Gantt view type in the view type selection page, and you get the same options to name the view and select whether it should be the default view and whether it should be personal or public.

After configuring those options, scroll down to the Gantt Columns section of the page (see Figure 9). In this section, you configure what columns will be used as the title column, starting date column, and due date column. Optionally, you can also specify a percentage column to indicate in the Gantt chart how the item has progressed and the predecessors column. (A predecessors column is a column that specifies for each item which should be completed before it can start. This is most common with tasks that have to be done sequentially.)

Figure 9. Creating a Gantt view.

The column you select in the Title box is displayed in the Gantt chart as the title of the item. In most cases, this is the title column, but you can also display a different column as the title.

Create a Datasheet View

Creating a datasheet view is exactly like creating a standard view. You select the datasheet view type in the view type selection page, and you get the same options to name the view and select whether it should be the default view and whether it should be personal or public.

However, a datasheet view has fewer advanced options to choose from than standard views. For example, you can’t specify a grouping for the view or the display style for the items. This is because the datasheet view is displaying the items in a sheet—rows and columns.