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Adjusting the schedule

Reschedule and resize work right on the timeline — drag a bar to new dates, drag an edge to change its length, and edit any detail in the task dialog.

Once tasks are on the timeline, you can adjust them by dragging — no dialog needed for a quick date change. Chart edits stay pending until you click Publish Draft at the top right.

Move a task to new dates

  1. Open the Schedule tab in Gantt view.
  2. Click and drag a task's bar left or right along the timeline.
  3. Release on the new dates. Movement snaps to whole days; review the updated timeline, then click Publish Draft.

Any dependency arrows reflow to follow the bar as you move it.

Make a task longer or shorter

  1. Hover over a bar’s left or right edge. A visible resize grip and horizontal resize cursor appear; grab the grip.
  2. Drag the edge to change the start or end date.
  3. Release — the task's duration updates. Click Publish Draft to save and review the change before publishing.

Note

Chart date edits can shift downstream tasks to preserve their dependencies, durations, and planned gaps. Review the affected work before saving. A dependency whose dates still violate its relationship stays red even if critical-path highlighting is hidden.

Edit cells directly

Click a task's Task, % Complete, Start, End, or Duration cell in the left pane to edit it. Dates are required; duration is a positive whole number of project working days. These edits, including any linked date changes, stay pending until you click Publish Draft.

Note

If you navigate away with pending edits, Foreman asks whether to stay, Leave without saving, or Save & leave. Save & leave saves without publishing. A failed save keeps your changes available to retry.

Edit a task's details

For a task's title, phase, assignees, Description, predecessors, progress, or exact times:

  1. Click the task's bar to open the task dialog.
  2. Edit the fields you need. Phase is optional; choose No phase for a standalone task.
  3. To change times, turn off All Day and set Start Time / End Time.
  4. Click Save or Save & Publish inside the dialog. This saves that task's form, already-pending cell edits, and its selected phase if that phase is new. Other pending edits stay unsaved. Closing the dialog does not save its new field changes.
  5. To remove the task instead, click Delete.

Reorder tasks and phases

In the left pane, drag the handle on a task row to move it within or across phases, or drag a phase header to reorder phases. The bars on the right reflow to match. Review any confirmation when moving linked work between phases, then click Publish Draft to keep the changes.

Don’t see this?

Dragging, resizing, and editing all require schedule edit access. With view-only access the bars are fixed and the dialog opens read-only.

Check what is shared

Click Publish Draft at the top right to save pending chart edits and review what will publish. Closing the review leaves those edits saved without publishing. New unpublished tasks are visible only to their creator. Publication includes shared schedule changes and your new tasks, including work hidden by your filters, but never another person's private tasks. Published dates stay unchanged until publication unless auto-publish is enabled for a task dialog's Save & Publish.

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