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title: "Gantt Schedule Settings: Working Days, Holidays, and Task Labels"
url: "https://help.ontraccr.com/en/article/gantt-schedule-settings-working-days-holidays-and-task-labels"
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last_updated: "2025-06-26T17:43:17.805Z"
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# Gantt Schedule Settings: Working Days, Holidays, and Task Labels

## **⚙️ Gantt Schedule Settings: Working Days, Holidays, and Task Labels**  
 

### 📘 Article Purpose

This article explains how to configure Gantt Schedule **settings** to ensure accurate timelines and resource visibility, including **working days**, **custom holidays**, and **task labels**.

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## **⚙️ Where to Find Gantt Settings**

In any Gantt Schedule view:

1.  Click the **gear icon** (⚙️) at the top right
2.  The **Gantt Settings Slider** opens with two tabs:
    -   **General**
    -   **Appearance**

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## **📅 General Settings**

### 🧱 Working Days

Use this to define which days are **considered workdays** in your organization.

### Why it matters:

-   Gantt durations will **ignore non-working days**
-   Ensures task timelines reflect **realistic labor availability**

⚠️ You must have at least one working day selected

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### 🎉 Holidays

Add specific **non-working dates** such as:

-   Stat holidays
-   Company-wide breaks

### What they do:

-   Holidays are excluded from Gantt task duration calculations
-   Helps create **realistic start/end dates**

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## 🏷️ Labels (Task Statuses)

Used to visually tag tasks in the Gantt chart.

### How to Manage:

1.  Click **Manage Labels** (from the Settings slider)
2.  Or go to **Settings > Labels > Gantt Labels**

### Default labels include:

-   **Not Started**
-   **In Progress**
-   **Delayed**
-   **Finished**

You can:

-   Add new labels
-   Edit names and colors
-   Delete unused ones

🎯 Use labels to track task status or create custom categories (e.g., “Needs Review”)

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## **🎨 Appearance Tab**

This tab controls what task details appear in your Gantt view.

### Visible Columns

-   Choose which fields are shown in the left-hand table
-   Reorder columns using drag-and-drop

👁️ Useful for surfacing info like assigned users, durations, or notes

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## **🖥️ Schedule View Toggle**

Located at the top of the Gantt Schedule:

-   **Schedule View (default)** → Shows tasks in timeline format
-   **List View** → Hides the Gantt bars; shows a sortable list of tasks

🧭 Use List View to focus on task metadata instead of timelines

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## 🔍 **Summary**

| Setting Area | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| Working Days | Defines days used for duration calculations |
| Holidays | Excludes key dates from planning timelines |
| Labels | Adds color-coded task tags |
| Appearance | Controls visible task columns |
| Schedule/List View | Switches between timeline vs table view |