What Is the Gantt Schedule?

🏗️ Ontraccr Gantt Schedule: Plan Projects Like a Builder, Not a Spreadsheet
 

The Gantt Schedule is Ontraccr’s long-term planning and forecasting tool.

It helps you build project timelines, coordinate resources, and visualize how work is sequenced across time, teams, and tasks.

Whether you're managing one job or dozens, the Gantt Schedule brings structure to the chaos of multi-phase project execution.

🧭 What It’s For

Use the Gantt Schedule to:

• Map project tasks and durations
• Forecast labor, materials, and equipment
• Plan dependencies between phases of work
• Manage multiple project timelines in one place
• Coordinate multiple trades or crews across jobs

🧰 When to Use It

The Gantt Schedule is ideal when:

• You’re creating a project timeline
• You need to understand how tasks overlap or depend on each other
• You want to assign resources like users, materials, or equipment in advance
• You need to manage many projects at once and stay ahead of the work

🔄 How It Works

• Every project in Ontraccr has a Gantt Schedule automatically created
• Tasks can include:
  • Start and end dates
  • Assigned users or expected user groups
  • Materials, equipment, and cost codes
  • Task labels and status tracking
  • Parent/child dependencies
• You can dispatch tasks directly into the Field Schedule as the work date approaches
• Use the Master Schedule to combine multiple projects into one high-level view

🎯 Why It Matters

Field teams operate best when work is predictable.

The Gantt Schedule gives you that predictability by helping you:

• Plan tasks in logical sequences
• Avoid last-minute resource conflicts
• Make use of downtime across crews
• Identify risks before they become problems

It turns project execution into a coordinated, proactive process, not a reactive scramble.

💡 Common Use Cases

🔗 Related Tools

• Field Schedule – Turn Gantt tasks into live, clock-able shifts
• Materials & Equipment Database – Assign tracked assets to each task
• Labels & Filters – Organize and sort tasks for better planning

🧠 Big Picture

The Gantt Schedule is more than a planning tool—it’s a project control system.

It connects your high-level roadmap with day-to-day execution, ensuring that what’s planned actually gets done—and gets done right.