Planner is an editable Gantt chart for Redmine. You move bars, resize them, create dependencies and change estimates in a shared Draft. Nothing touches your issues until somebody reviews the changes and presses Apply. This makes it safe to plan, discuss and change your mind.
Set up in four steps
- Install the plugin and restart Redmine.
- Enable the Planner module in the project and give roles the permissions View planner and Edit planner draft.
- Open the project and select Planner in the project menu (the tab is next to Gantt). The global Planner link in the top menu shows issues of all projects you can see.
- Drag a bar. It turns yellow: this is the first Draft change. Select Review changes, then Apply selected.
What you get
| Feature | Where to find it | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Chart with rows, bars, scale and range | Planner tab | Planner chart |
| Filters, grouping, columns, labels, colors | Options above the chart | Filter, group and style the chart |
| Drag, resize, create and edit dialog | Bars and empty rows | Edit on the chart |
| Draft, Review, Apply, Discard | Review changes button | Draft, Review, Apply and Discard |
| Dependencies with violations | Handles on bars | Dependencies |
| Working days | Calendar of Redmine | Working days |
| Critical path and float | Options, Critical path | Critical path and float |
| Baselines and variance | Save as baseline | Baselines |
| Version milestones | Diamonds on the chart | Milestones |
Light and PRO
PRO features are marked PRO in all articles.
| Light | PRO | |
|---|---|---|
| Chart with range, scale, chevrons, issue hierarchy | yes | yes |
| Drag, resize, hover-to-create, edit dialog | yes | yes |
| Draft, Review, Apply, Discard, conflicts, warnings | yes | yes |
| Dependencies, Related issues, Undo and Redo | yes | yes |
| Bar label | subject only | id, subject, estimated time, assignee |
| Group by project, assignee, version, Agile sprint | yes | |
| Color by (tracker, priority, project and more) | yes | |
| Columns in the task table | yes | |
| Versions line and milestones | yes | |
| Baselines and variance | yes | |
| Critical path with total and free float | yes |
Core ideas in one minute
- Chart. The task table on the left and the timeline with bars on the right. It is built on a normal issue query, so filters and saved queries work as on the issues list.
- Draft. Proposed dates, estimates, assignees and dependencies. Yellow bars are Draft. The Draft is stored on the server and is the same for everyone who may plan the issue, so two planners see each other's proposals.
- Review and Apply. A table of every change with old and new values, conflicts and warnings. You choose the rows and apply them in one transaction.
- Working days. All calculations skip the non-working days of your Redmine: how Planner counts dates.