Product Fundamentals
- Product Overview — What Gantt is, who uses it, and how it connects to Polarion ALM.
- Work Items Gantt vs Plans Gantt — The two scheduling modes: one for individual work items, another for Polarion Plans as scheduling containers.
- Architecture and Data Flow — How data flows between the Polarion server and the browser: loading, rendering, and persistence.
Scheduling and Dependencies
- Auto-Scheduling and Dependency Propagation — How dependency links drive automatic date recalculation when tasks move.
- Critical Path Analysis — Identifying the longest chain of dependent tasks that determines the earliest project completion date.
- Date Range Conflict Detection and Resolution — How the Gantt detects and resolves parent-child date range violations.
- Data Mapping and Field Resolution — How Polarion work item fields map to Gantt scheduling properties like start date, end date, and duration.
Resources and Capacity
- Resource Load Calculation Modes — The four methods for computing resource utilization: item count, time, remaining estimate, and allocation.
- Working Calendars and Scheduling — How working calendars define non-working days, per-user schedules, and calendar exceptions.
- Team Assignments and Cross-Team Planning — Managing team membership, allocation percentages, and cross-project resource visibility.
- Capacity Modifiers and Team Capacity — How capacity modifier fields reduce effective availability for resource planning.
Visualization
- Presentation Modes — Task, Project, and Milestone — The visual modes that control how a work item type appears on the Gantt chart.
- Item Color Logic — Static, Dynamic, and Progress Colors — How task bar colors are determined from progress, scripts, and work item properties.
- Baselines and Schedule Comparison — Comparing the current schedule against historical snapshots using dates, named baselines, or revisions.
Configuration
- Configuration Layers and Precedence — How system-wide defaults, per-instance parameters, and user preferences interact.
- User Settings and Local Storage Persistence — How the Gantt remembers personal preferences like zoom level and column widths between sessions.