Light and easy-to-use tool for viewing SharePoint tasks as a Gantt Chart. With the component a SharePoint user can have all his tasks and subtasks in a single view, easily create and complete tasks, assign resources, edit timeframes and percentage of completion with just several clicks.

Virto Gantt Chart View displays data of the type “task” from SharePoint lists in a way that conveniently presents all the relevant information about tasks in a single view as well as provides easy tools for quick task management. With the component a SharePoint user can have all his tasks and subtasks in a single view, easily create and complete tasks, assign resources, edit timeframes and percentage of completion with just several clicks. All these actions can be done in very convenient and interactive way as the web part is a Silverlight-based component.

Virto Gantt Chart allows for several distinct views: standard table as well as day, week, month, quarter, 6-months and year Gantt Charts. When working with a table view you can easily resize and switch columns for convenient displaying information and edit all the data inline, i.e. without opening the task edit form. Finally, the web part is a flexibly customizable solution. You can customize each element of a diagram choosing its size, color, etc to make the component ideally fit your SharePoint environment.

Developer overview
1.Designed for Sharepoint 2007 and 2010
2.Works with any SharePoint Task List
3.Support one data source

General features
1.Displays tasks into two views — table view and Gantt chart view
2.Allows for creating new task, deleting and editing current task
3.Editing can be easily done inline without opening task edit form
4.Supports summary and nested task (indent and outdent), milestones
5.Allows for group actions (delete, convert to indent/outdent)
6.Support links between tasks (Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, and Start-to-Finish)
7.Adjustable splitter position (between two views, from 0 to 99%)

Table View
1.5 columns: title, start date, end date, resources (assigned to), % complete
2.Ability to freeze first columns
3.Changing column size with a simple resizing
4.Changing column order with a drag and drop

Gantt View
1.Supported timescales (hour, quarter days, days, weeks, month, quarters, half years)
2.Optional tooltip (displays all task information – title, end, start etc.)
3.Adjustable size and colors (task, summary task, milestone)
4.End user interactivity features (resizing duration, moving to another date etc., making links etc).