Full-height Gantt timeline laid out as Job > Phase > Task, with task groups and sub-tasks that expand under their parent, status-coloured bars, links between tasks (shown as arrows), a Today line, a collapsible Options sidebar (project picker, search, Filters, PDF/Excel export, View, Risks, What-If), crew availability, and WinkScope AI that can build a project's whole Gantt from its scope.
Where: Schedule > Gantt Chart tab, and inside a project: Projects > open project > Schedule > Gantt
Plans: Pro, Agency and Enterprise (or an active trial)
Read and navigate the Gantt chart
Open Schedule and switch to Gantt Chart, or open a project and choose Schedule > Gantt.
Rows read top-down: the Job, its Phases, then the Tasks. Click the arrow next to a row to expand or collapse it; task groups and sub-tasks added inside a task expand underneath it with their own bars.
Use the arrows and Today at the top to move through dates, the zoom buttons or the Day/Week/Month picker to change the scale, and the full-screen button for more room.
Open Options (left side panel) to pick a project, search, filter, export PDF/Excel, change what is shown under View (weekends, baseline, cash flow), run Risks, or try What-If. Close the panel to give the chart the full width.
Change dates by dragging
Drag the middle of a bar to move it; drag either end to change the start or finish date.
Tasks that wait on the one you moved shift by the same amount.
If you drag a task earlier than a task it waits on, a small window explains the link. Choose Keep my dates to save your dates and pause that link (it comes back automatically once the dates fit again), Edit links to change it yourself, or Cancel.
Every date change shows an Undo option for a few seconds.
Link tasks (dependencies)
Click a bar to open the task, then go to its Gantt options.
Under Before, choose the tasks this one waits on; under After / Next up, choose the tasks that wait on this one. The arrows on the chart follow those links.
Pick the link type (finish to start, start to start, etc.) and optional gap days. Links that would make tasks wait on each other in a loop are refused.
Assign crew and check availability
In the task, type or pick who it is assigned to.
A green chip means they are free for those dates; red means they already have overlapping work. Click the chip to see their nearby schedule. Use Unassign to clear it in one click.
Start a Gantt from a template
In Schedule or a project's Schedule, open Add and choose Start from Template.
Pick one of your templates or a pre-built one. WinkScope lays it out as a Job with its Phases and linked Tasks in order, starting from the project start date (or the date you choose).
Templates generated by WinkScope AI for a new trade use the same phase-and-task layout, so they arrive ready to use.
Let WinkScope AI build a project's Gantt
Open the project, go to Schedule > Gantt, click Add and choose Let WinkScope AI build it.
Optionally add notes (crew size, order of rooms), then click Build my plan. WinkScope AI reads the project's scope and line items and suggests phases, tasks, durations, milestones and checklists, linked in order.
Review the plan. Set a start date (an upcoming project start date is filled in for you) or leave it empty to start from today as a placeholder, then click Add to Gantt.
Please review the dates afterwards: drag bars or open a task to adjust anything.
Rules and limits
The Schedule page is included from Pro upward. Starter and Free plans see an upgrade prompt instead of the calendar.
WinkScope AI only plans work the scope implies; it does not add extra trades or prices, and its dates are suggestions the user should review.
The AI plan is added only after the user clicks Add to Gantt.
What this cannot do
Pull in dates from Google Calendar to build the plan.
Drag sub-task rows that live inside a task directly; open the parent task to edit them.
Still stuck?
If WinkScope does not behave the way this page describes, do not work around it. Open a ticket from Support > My Tickets with the page you were on and a screenshot, and the team will look at the account directly.