{"id":17055,"date":"2018-10-18T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:00:38","slug":"a-fresh-and-innovative-look-at-gantt-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/news\/a-fresh-and-innovative-look-at-gantt-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"A fresh and innovative look at Gantt charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Highcharts Gantt offers a modern approach to creating interactive charts for allocation and coordination of activities and resources, built on top of Highcharts JS, the industry-leading charting library.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Highsoft has taken a fresh and innovative look at Gantt charts for the web with today\u2019s premiere of Highcharts Gantt. It is a module built on top of the world\u2019s most popular commercial JavaScript charting library, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/products\/highcharts\/\">Highcharts.js<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In close collaboration with clients, Highsoft set out to re-think what tools today&#8217;s developers need to meet end-user expectations when it comes to Gantt charts. The result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/products\/gantt\/\">Highcharts Gantt<\/a>, remarkably differs from solutions of the past. It fully exploits modern web technologies and awards both developers and end users with a truly modern and dynamic experience.<\/p>\n<h4>Highcharts Gantt features:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Comes built-in with helpful GUI enhancements such as milestones, percent-complete shadings, current day indication, and relationships between activities.<\/li>\n<li>Sophisticated navigation that intelligently adapts to any device, including support for multi-touch gestures, mouse and keyboard interaction.<\/li>\n<li>Ability for end users to re-arrange tasks along the timeline, change their duration and order by simple drag-and-drop actions.<\/li>\n<li>Allows developers to write custom event handlers for building custom planning tools.<\/li>\n<li>Allows end users one-click export of any chart into a several raster or vector graphics formats. Perfect for including the charts in static reports and presentations.<\/li>\n<li>Being built on the foundation of the battle-tested charting library <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/products\/highcharts\/\">Highcharts.js<\/a>, the Gantt module also inherits Highcharts\u2019 legacy browser compatibility, a still important requirement for many enterprise users, as well as a community of hundreds of thousands of active developers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Gantt for modern web development<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17060\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b-560x420.jpg\" alt=\"335 252\" width=\"335\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b-760x570.jpg 760w, https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b-1160x870.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/wp-assets.highcharts.com\/www-highcharts-com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17210538\/gantt-responsive2b.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><em>&#8220;For decades, Gantt charts have been the standard way to visualize and interact with project management and other timeline-based resource management tools. However, many such tools remain desktop based, or built on obsolete web technologies&#8221;<\/em> says Torstein H\u00f8nsi, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Highsoft.<em> \u201cThis renders them near useless in our cloud-based, collaborative era. Users expect to be able to access data and collaborate over the web whether they are on a Mac, PC, Linux machine, tablet or a smartphone.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Highcharts Gantt is offered as a stand-alone product, and may also be purchased as part of discounted product and support bundles that include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/products\/highcharts\/\">Highcharts.js<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/products\/highstock\/\">Highstock.js<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/products\/highmaps\/\">Highmaps.js<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/highcharts.com\/products\/gantt\/\">Highcharts Gantt here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highcharts Gantt offers a modern approach to creating interactive charts for allocation and coordination of activities and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"meta_title":"","meta_description":"","hc_selected_options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[1095],"coauthors":[705],"class_list":["post-17055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-highcharts-gantt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29148,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions\/29148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}