• fix of time zone problems (shift by day within the calendar)
• this version does not deliver any copy of the Apache Log4J library (see CVE-2021-44228)

• fix of time zone problems (shift by day within the calendar)
• this version does not deliver any copy of the Apache Log4J library (see CVE-2021-44228)

improved Gantt-Chart gadget on Jira dashboard: configure preselected project or filter as well as displayed view

improved Gantt-Chart gadget on Jira dashboard: configure preselected project or filter as well as displayed view

• inline-edit of additional fields like fixVersion, sprint, epic link etc.
• create issues on Gantt-Chart
• support of multiple languages
• improved rescheduling
• improved quick filters associated to chosen view
• bug fixes

• inline-edit of additional fields like fixVersion, sprint, epic link etc.
• create issues on Gantt-Chart
• support of multiple languages
• improved rescheduling
• improved quick filters associated to chosen view
• bug fixes

improvements of re-scheduling for agile projects as well as classic ones

improvements of re-scheduling for agile projects as well as classic ones

• Ignore hacks within names of Gantt Quick Filters like "<script>...</script>" by authenticated users

• Ignore hacks within names of Gantt Quick Filters like "<script>...</script>" by authenticated users

• avoid execution of scripts embedded within Jira filter names while displaying/selecting on Gantt-Charts: properly display manipulated names of saved Jira filters (treatment of names like "<script>alert('HERE I AM')</script>")
• on-premise: REST-calls for saving user settings are restricted to the related logged in user herself/himself and can no longer be by-passed (authenticated users could attack others by generating a REST-call in the browser manipulating the settings of other users)
• vertical scrolling has been improved to avoid mis-aligning between the three areas of information in each row

• avoid execution of scripts embedded within Jira filter names while displaying/selecting on Gantt-Charts: properly display manipulated names of saved Jira filters (treatment of names like "<script>alert('HERE I AM')</script>")
• on-premise: REST-calls for saving user settings are restricted to the related logged in user herself/himself and can no longer be by-passed (authenticated users could attack others by generating a REST-call in the browser manipulating the settings of other users)
• vertical scrolling has been improved to avoid mis-aligning between the three areas of information in each row

• availability per user per day
• utilization per project in percent
• bug fixes

Have a look at my demo videos:

• Resource-Mgt. Part 1: https://youtu.be/j2WccAHV1x4
• Resource-Mgt. Part 2: https://youtu.be/DdM_-apy4JE

• availability per user per day
• utilization per project in percent
• bug fixes

Have a look at my demo videos:

• Resource-Mgt. Part 1: https://youtu.be/j2WccAHV1x4
• Resource-Mgt. Part 2: https://youtu.be/DdM_-apy4JE

• support of scenarios and filters on Gantt dashboard items
• store large data sets of issues for scenarios like "Baseline"
• selecting a filter automatically enables that one
• some minor bug fixes

• support of scenarios and filters on Gantt dashboard items
• store large data sets of issues for scenarios like "Baseline"
• selecting a filter automatically enables that one
• some minor bug fixes

• issue filters on Gantt-Chart
• multi-milestones per collapsed parent issue of (all milestones of children)
• improved rendering of dates to avoid mis-understandings of month/days (format) and visa versa
• bug fixes

• issue filters on Gantt-Chart
• multi-milestones per collapsed parent issue of (all milestones of children)
• improved rendering of dates to avoid mis-understandings of month/days (format) and visa versa
• bug fixes

• improved support of Jira Software and Jira Portfolio
• improved calculation of suggestions based on time tracking (estimated effort in time) or story points (estimated as complexity)
• bug fixes

• improved support of Jira Software and Jira Portfolio
• improved calculation of suggestions based on time tracking (estimated effort in time) or story points (estimated as complexity)
• bug fixes

• provide scenarios for what-if analysis, comparisons with current plan as well as merge into current plan (extension of the concept of simple baselines to a more complex and flexible approach): per scenario, you can change all planning dates, optionally configured milestone dates (often: due date) as well as the related assignee and store this without overwriting the current plan's original data.
• UI fixes and minor enhancements
• bug fixes

• provide scenarios for what-if analysis, comparisons with current plan as well as merge into current plan (extension of the concept of simple baselines to a more complex and flexible approach): per scenario, you can change all planning dates, optionally configured milestone dates (often: due date) as well as the related assignee and store this without overwriting the current plan's original data.
• UI fixes and minor enhancements
• bug fixes

• support of Microsoft IE 11, which does not properly support modern EC-standards
• avoid displaying Gantt-Chart in the side bar under "apps" duplicating the Gantt icon
• some bug fixes like determining Jira's baseurl (in some rare cases, it could not retrieved properly) and fix for drag'n drop rows in the Gantt-Chart for manual re-sorting planning dates etc.
• integration of traffic-lights for Jira to be displayed as column in the middle area of Gantt-Charts

• new gadget to put a Gantt-Chart on your dashboard
• new option to export as XLS-file
• new individual holidays per user, taken care by rescheduling etc.
• interactively remove dependencies by clicking on arrow/line between issues on a Gantt-Chart
• bug fixes

• specify all non-business days based on pre-defined calendars with public, bank and observance holidays available for 144 countries as well as manually maintain other holidays
• the column "parent" will be omitted within the export if no issue has got a parent issue
• extended grouping by any custom field of type "text (single line)", "single select", "cascading select", "multi-select" as well as "label"

• get Gantt-Charts for Jira Core without user interaction based on issues' estimations or default of one business day as suggestions
• get Gantt-Charts without user interaction based on Jira Software sprints' start and end dates, their assigned issues and their estimated story points as suggestions
• focussed Gantt-Charts on issue views for the that issue as well as its subtasks and dependent issues (configurable per project)
• bug fixes and optimisations

Based on the average duration in working days of all prior sprints, future sprints are scheduled and their assigned issues are distributed per assignee based on their estimation in story points.

• new issue loader to improve performance
• new user interface (click on "yellow" element to inline edit)
• UNDO-functionality
• new internal engine to be able to handle 10.000+ issues in large scale environments

• Performance improvements
• Bug fixes concerning loading large sets of issues

• compatible with Jira 7.9
• some bug fixes

• Additional Gantt-Tips
• new grouping options: group by Epic (ordered by epic key = creation date) and group by Epic (ordered by their global rank)
• bug fixes on aggregations while grouping on epic levels

• compatibility adjustments for Jira v7.6
• additional Gantt-Tips
• new option to display issues' summary instead of issue key within the work-break-down structure (WBS): open Gantt menu "configure look & feel", select tab "Gantt Features" and enable option "Display summary instead of issue key"
• fix in displaying progress within Gantt-Assistant
• some other bug fixes

• create (sub-)issues within Gantt-Chart
• Gantt Tips Library as new Gantt menu item
• extended tips
• bug fixes

• Under Gantt menu item "configure look & feel" you can now find the new option "Display parents and children belonging to another group reflecting issue hierarchy and indents." Please deselect the related checkbox if necessary, so that the shadow parents/children are not shown on the Gantt chart.
• bug fix on exporting to SVG/PDF using various browsers, BUT Mircosoft IE is not capable to create a PDF-document, whereas all other common browsers can do that without any problem (that's a limitation of IE, without any workaround rather than using another browser for PDF-export)
• bug fix on Gantt assistant to automatically generate planning dates if not set for issues concerning input fields and button

What should be in front is being placed at the back based on a CSS style sheet bug being fixed by this version. Everybody having installed v4.3.0 should update to v4.3.1 in order to work properly although it was just a small bug but a large impact!

• enhanced Gantt Assistant for generating planning dates for subtasks if their parent issues are not selected for the Gantt-Chart
• automatic set of actual end date if issue gets resolved or closed does not change the planned start nor end date
• automatic set of actual end date in case of setting an issue's remaining effort to 0d while editing

• Customfield "actual start" will be set automatically, if status changes from a status category TO DO "blue" to IN PROGRESS "orange"
• Ccustomfield "actual end" will be set automatically, if status changes from a status category IN PROGRESS "orange" to DONE "green"
• Switching back from DONE "green" within the workflow unsets actual end
• Starting a sprint automatically forces a re-schedule of the related issues to start at the sprint's start date
• Deleting or removing an issue from a sprint also force a re-scheduling of all sprint's issues
• Re-ranking issues within a sprint also force a re-schedule off all sprint's issues to reflect the new order in related timing/planning.
• Specify time equivalent for a story point per project within the project administration on the Gantt section in order to mix different approaches of estimations
• New Gantt assistant to automatically generate planning dates if not set for issues
• New Gantt-Tips sharing knowledge/handling
• bug fixes

Creating an issue providing /entering a fixVersion having set bot, start date as well as a release date, will take over that dates to set new issue's planning start and end date according to its version.

• create issue(s) on Gantt-Chart Project Panel
• improved user-interface like button for resource-utilizations etc.

using Jira-Software (agile approaches):

• configure the time equivalent of 1 story point on each (agile) project on the project summary administration panel
• automatically aggregate story points per grouping item
• automatically set start date of an issue to the start date of it's assigned sprint and calculate the issue's end date based on the time equivalent of its story points
• re-schedule all issues of sprint in case of reordering/ranking on agile boad
• bug fixes

• improved re-scheduling for finish-finish dependencies
• UI enhancements
• etc.

• export into SVG or PDF and reduce timeline to focus on certain duration
• bug fixes for compatibility to Microsoft IE
• various other bug fixes

• export into SVG or PDF and reduce timeline to focus on certain duration
• bug fixes for compatibility to Microsoft IE
• various other bug fixes

Please have a look on my wiki at https://polscheit.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GANTT/New+Gantt-Chart+Releases and related sub-pages:

• new rendering engine
• new integration with Confluence as Gantt-Chart column of issue search result page via Jira-Filter-Gadget etc.
• new project Gantt panel
• export to SVG and PDF (poster printing via Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• more flexible configuration of grouping and sorting
• support of user- and project-specific views (customisability)
• bug fixes
• and much more

• export as MS-Excel file on new Gantt Project Panel
• export as MS-Project file on new Gantt Project Panel
• keep screen settings while (re-)configure global add-on settings
• do not auto-update existing issues concerning setting new default for custom field "Gantt-Chart": this has to be done by an admin via bulk-change if required in order not to use too much CPU
• fix a problem of gantt permission (visibility)
• some other bug fixes

• Export into SVG (scalable vector graphic)
• Export into PDF (bitmap)
• inline editing of assignee, dates & datetimes, text like summary
• config option to hide/show info columns in order to expand or shrink area for Gantt diagram on screen
• additional selection of timeline (daily, weekly, monthly etc.)
• some bug fixes

• earned value analysis: new columns for CPI, SPI, SVa and SVb
• support of setting row's background color based on configured custom field (single-line text)
• support of setting display of datetime-customfields to just dates
• some minor fixes

• ability to enable/disable "show Gantt-bar for issue" on single issue page via new checkbox on issue edit screen
• some CCS-style corrections etc.

Christmas-Release containing

• Gantt Panel: shift columns left/right
• Gantt Panel: inline editing of date/datetime custom fields
• coloring (user-specific, project's default, global default)
• various improvements of the UI/usability and CCS-styles
• bug fixes

• custom fields of type "URL" display their content on the information area left of the gantt diagram by default. If you click on "display web-page", the native web-site will be embedded like a linked Confluence/wiki page
• look & feel settings (here: coloring) being configured via old Gantt-Panel will be used for displaying gantt bars on the new panel, now
• fixed bug for properly displaying automation of Jira Service Desk having enabled Gantt-Chart for Jira

• add/remove displayed columns on Gantt Panel
• add/remove grouping columns on Gantt Panel
• modify column width via drag'n drop on Gantt Panel
• save/delete changes as user-individual gantt view
• save/delete changes as project default being logged in as admin user (project admin or system admin)
• auto-reschedule dependent issues after moving an issue
• by default: scroll horizontally to display today if within time range
• some bug-fixes like:- auto-update resource utilization if shifting issues,- proper display of issues if just using Jira Core (no agile) etc.

Based on the new rendering engine introduced with Gantt-Chart v.4.0, a new Gantt-Panel is available in addition to the prior but deprecated Gantt-Panel That one is labeled "old", now. The new Gantt-Panel on the left side of a project is about 4-5 times faster than the old one! Additionally, new Gantt-Views are introduced: one default view and 2 agile views focussing on sprints for agile teams or epics for Product Owners. In all views, you can select issues by filter or agile board: so, multi-project views are possible! Another new feature: display parent of issue and edit that to generate multi-level work-break down structures (WBS) - just enable edit-mode and select the parent of an issue, which may is a prent of another issue etc. That's implemented by using Jira's issue link type "parent-child relationship", created by the Gantt-Chart add-on.

Some bug fixes avoiding unnecessary looping and some coloring bugs are also fixed.

• compatibility release for Jira 7.2.x
• compatible with TEMPO add-on (prior versions cause layout incompatibilities)
• improvements of Gantt-Charts integrated within STRUCUTURES supporting issue hierachies reflecting on Gantt-Chart automatically
• improvements of Gantt-Charts within issue search result page
• bug fixes

• Improved timeline (zoom in/out via double-click on blue timeline)
• Improved rendering of dependencies within new Gantt views
• Improved creation of issue dependencies within new Gantt views
• Integration into Jira's native issue search via new column "Gantt-Chart"
• Integration into STRUCTURE v3.x(third-party add-on by ALM-works) supporting multiple instances of same issues, folders etc.
• Integration into Jira's issue page by showing an excerpt: current issue, its subtasks as well as dependent issues (incoming and outgoing)
• Integration into Jira's dashboard as new Gantt-Chart column on a "Filter Result"-Gadget for more flexibility
• Integration into a Confluence page via Jira "Filter Result"-Gadget having configured a Gantt-Chart column
• Improved Resources Overview and Utilizations grouped by assignee and (multi-)project

• proper display of milestone dependencies when the prior or next issue is not visible on screen
• click on a collapsed milestone to auto-expand and auto-scroll to related milestone row
• display of labels on the left/right of milestones, too
• fixed grouping bug to use the same sequence of issue like the result of related filter having an order-by clause
• some other bug fixes

• proper display of milestone dependencies when the prior or next issue is not visible on screen
• click on a collapsed milestone to auto-expand and auto-scroll to related milestone row
• display of labels on the left/right of milestones, too
• fixed grouping bug to use the same sequence of issue like the result of related filter having an order-by clause
• some minor bug fixes

If you are running Jira 6.x, please download the compatible version (see "all versions" tab): this add-on version needs Jira 7.x!

• integration of traffic-light
• display of versions within timeline
• improvement of caching
• bug fixes

• integration of traffic-light
• display of versions within timeline
• improvement of caching
• bug fixes

• use workflow actions as well as issue operations in addition to the „view card“ of an issue by moving the mouse over a gantt bar and clicking on the context menu icon, which pops up (see screenshot)
• optimization of user interface and handling for move/resize as well as link issues
• performance improvements like issue linking on Gantt-Chart and local session based caching
• enhanced scheduling engine to take about intraday times and properly link short time/intraday issues as well as adapted utilization for intraday counting
• compatibility release for Jira 7.x analog to v3.3.0 for Jira 6.x

• improved integration with STRUCTURE increasing performance
• strict permission handling: if project is enabled for Gantt-Chart, you must be the project lead of member of configured project role or group to view on gadget as well as on project tab panel
• proper creation of milestones even if re-scheduling listener is disabled
• minor adjustments of layout (gadget as well as project tab panel)
• bug fixes

similar to Gantt-Chart v3.2.5 for Jira 6, but ported to Jira Core 7

• improved performance using Structures (ALMworks) together with Gantt-Charts
• improved re-scheduling while maintaining project's or users' calendars, setting (non-)working days
• improved handling of multi-projects mode
• restricted access to Gantt-Chart for project leads (special privilege) and members of configured Jira group and/or project role only
• fixes of reported bugs

• using mouse wheel to scroll down/up within Gantt-Chart
• improved fast issue creation including mark as milestone
• improved export to MS-Project
• improved issue hierarchies (WBS) via issue linking on Gantt-Chart
• bug fixes etc.

• new option within Gantt Feature (look & feel): Display dates without time
• new option for Gantt bars (look & feel): Display related Epic as superscript text within Gantt-Bar
• default progress bar in green layered on top of utilisation
• correct look & feel of Gantt-Charts launched out of STRUCTURE menu
• fixed "stuck on loading" in some special cases
• fixed possibility to delete dependencies to non-displayed issues
• etc.

• avoid loading/displaying issues twice
• proper handling of multi-projects
• display available project roles within project administration for Gantt
• fixed JQL problem using Structures
• and others

• new export of data to MS-Excel
• sorting of components by their names instead of using their IDs
• fix of wrong aggregations while grouping in some special cases
• ensure correct alignment of left/right side of diagram
• etc.

• improved performance by multiple times (20x up to factor 50x depending on number of retrieved issues)
• zoomable timeline with auto-adjustment of time unit selection
• flexible grouping for Jira filters as well as agile boards, too
• new feature to easily create new issues having an optional effort and Gantt-dependency
• other minor improvements

In order to properly work, Jira's baseUrl has to be set correctly as it is used to access/load images and content from the Jira server into the browser. A check is implemented to ensure consistency between configured baseUrl and used URL within the browser.

• bug fixes
• config of project and global defaults for displayed columns
• config of grouping columns using any other (custom)field together with epic name
• config of global default JQL to be used in case of "no filter" selection on Gantt-Chart
• limit displayed issue to a certain time frame like -4w to 12w in addition to the used JQL based on filter/board/structure
• Gantt-Gadget: time frame (from/to) added to gadget config
• Gantt-Gadget: new button to clear selected filter/reset to default
• Gantt bars are displayed within the color of their related status by default
• and others

• compatible with Jira 6.3.x
• new time range selection (from-to) in addition to Jira filters
• bug fixes

• ability to individually configure columns for grouping rather than taking the columns out of the ORDER-BY-clause of the related JQL
• set of improvements concerning usability like auto-adjustment of information panel in case of mouse-over close to visual borders of the Gantt diagram etc.
• set of bug fixes

Now, you can specify a velocity (load percentage) per individual issue. Prerequisite: you have to put the customfield "Velocity %" to your edit/view screen.

Additionally, any user can maintain his/her availability in form of a velocity (load percentage) per project: just expand the personal menu by clicking on the login name on the top right corner of the window and select menu item "Personal Calendar for Gantt-Chart", than select the new tab "my projects" and enter your velocities, e.g. 50 for an individual project, which you support part-time (50% job). As project manager, you'll see and can maintain the availablities of the assignable users on the project administration.

New features:

• draw baseline as original planning within same line in light blue (initial work logging copies current planning dates into their related baseline customfield; alternatively, you can set up a workflow post function "setBaseline" to copy that dates)
• import from MS-Project files
• export into MS-Project using Microsoft's XML-based file format

Changes:

• reverse version order analog to Jira's native version selection lists

Some bug fixes

• Bug Fixes:
  • display milestones
  • fixed one-day shift based on UTC and local time differences
  • fullscreen mode supports all functionalities like normal mode, now
  • others minor bug fixes
• Extensions/Improvements:
  • switch between fullscreen and normal mode without reloading (performance increase)
  • using absolute date for timeline (from - to) displays exactly that timeline independent of the issues, whereas relative timeline (e.g. -4w until 12w) optimizes to min/max of issues
    
• new LAB-functionality (EAP): import from Microsoft Project on project admin tab
  

• inline-editing of issue summary
• editing of assignee including entering a comment stays (communicate via comments!)
  
• inline-editing of planned start and end date
• ability to enter the start/end TIME of an issue in addition to a date and the related display option (hourly)
  
• for project admins: get a calendar overview of all assignable users and their availabilities and being able to maintain (set/unset) them in addition to user's individual actions
• being able to set a project's start and end date
• improved "generate planning dates ..." functionality for older projects already having a lot of issues without planning dates

v2.2 for Jira 5.1.x having the same functionality as

Version 2.2-Jira5.2-UPM2.9.1

• correct calculation of quarters within the timeline
• correct display of Gantt-Chart and Resource-Planning using Mircosoft IE8 (support for embedded Gantt-Charts within Jira's Issue Navigator will be within next following release)
• correction of milestone handling
• other bug fixes as communication by various users

• Handling of Greenhopper EPICs
• some bug fixes
• updated compatibility with Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) version 2.8

see release notes of Gantt-Chart v2.1.8.2 for Jira 5.2.x

• Handling of Greenhopper EPICs
• some bug fixes
• updated compatibility with Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) version 2.8

• Handling of Greenhopper EPICs
• some bug fixes
• updated compatibility with Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) version 2.8
  

• Initial release for Jira 5.2, supporting the new Issue Navigator:
  just add a new column (config columns) "Gantt-Chart" out of the list of available columns and get an integrated Gantt-Chart within the Issue Navigator.
• Support for STRUCTURE's (ALM-works) coming release 2.0, being compatible with Jira 5.2

Pre-view/latest snapshot of pre-v.2.1.7 available as part of my Early-Adapter-Program (EAP) on my server at http://www.polscheit.de/plugins/jira/gantt-chart/gantt-2.1.7-JIRA5.2-UPM2.7.8.jar as well as for Jira 5.0 and 5.1

Improvements:

• enhanced re-scheduling of issues while re-ordering (ranking) or assign/remove issue to/from Greenhopper sprint
• having installed a prior license provided by me and installing an Atlassian Marketplace license, yet: in that case of dual-licensing, my license key will be removed automatically if the valid date is less than that of the Marketplace license by hitting "apply" on the plugin's configuration panel to avoid conflicts

Bug fixes:

• display version (as hierarchy if specified using Greenhopper's classic board) as parent of sprints properly

Improvements:

• enhanced re-scheduling of issues while re-ordering (ranking) or assign/remove issue to/from Greenhopper sprint
• having installed a prior license provided by me and installing an Atlassian Marketplace license, yet: in that case of dual-licensing, my license key will be removed automatically if the valid date is less than that of the Marketplace license by hitting "apply" on the plugin's configuration panel to avoid conflicts

Bug fixes:

• display version (as hierarchy if specified using Greenhopper's classic board) as parent of sprints properly

First time, being able to get an Atlassian Marketplace license for my Gantt-Chart AddOn for the old Jira 4.4.5, which is every often still in use by larger companies and organisations.

In case of any question, please do not hestiate to contact me at frank@polscheit.de

Please see the release notes of:

• version 2.0.0 - 2.0.4 as well as
• version 2.1.0 - 2.1.6

Restrictions:

• no support for Greenhopper's Rapid Board as this is available since Greenhopper 6 not running together with the old Jira 4.4.5
• no support for displaying ALM-work's STRUCTUREs via additional menu items within the Structure-top level menu

HINT: I recommend to update Atlassian's Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) to version 2.7.7 before installing this plugin to avoid exceptions based on incompatibilities with old UPM versions!

• improved handling of filters on Project-Tab Gantt-Charts
• rounded display of efforts
• disabling of donation button due to migration to Atlassian Marketplace

Published new version 2.0.0 for Jira 5.x on the Atlassian Marketplace on May 27th, 2012.

Depending on Atlassian's approval process, you can download it and/or buy a license there when available.

• Additional button for full-screen mode
• fixed some view bugs
• fixed JiraGANTT-89

Upgrade to be compatible with Jira 5.0, having all functions analog to v1.6.8 including shift of gantt bars etc.

• Project admins can change project's configuration for Gantt-Chart.
• other minor topics, requested by customers and already distributed as part of my Early-Adapter-Program (EAP)

• improved handling of filters on Project-Tab Gantt-Charts
• rounded display of efforts
• disabling of donation button due to migration to Atlassian Marketplace

Minor fixes:

• Full-Screen mode having no scrollbars within the browser
• Powerpoint Export: display progress in % per Gantt-bar
• correct display of Gantt-bar for versions having set a due date (milestone)
• display own and favorite filters on ProjectTabPanel for Gantt-Chart only (no shared filters), if more than 50 filters are retrieved
• adjust size of message panel for interactive moving issues, so that it fit within Gantt-Gadget

• Additional language support: French
• Additional user panel to confirm or cancel issue moving after drag'n drop
• some bug fixes and smaller enhancements

Enhancements:

• Project Tab Panel: use your own or shared filters effecting the current project to select issues, like on Gantt-Gadgets: if a filter selects issues of other projects, those are not displayed and ignored here.
• Resource-Planning: display of cumulated average hours per day per assignee.
  The average hours of an issue per day is calculated before today as logged work in the past divided by working days between start date and today. The average hours in the future including today are calculated as remaining effort divided by the working days between today and planned end date.
• Resource-Planning: over-capacities are displayed as RED cumulated hours per day on the assignee's row and a warning sign is shown on the left. If you move the move this sign, a tooltip popups showing the first day with over-capacity (helpful for fast finding in case of a longer time period).
• Gantt-Gadget: export to Microsoft Powerpoint via an additional button below the Gantt-Chart.

Bug fixes:

• Display of project specific gantt configuration. In some circumstances, no Gantt section was displayed on the right bottom side as well as no tab on the left.
• Displaying of progress bars did not fit the value as shown within the left table in some circumstances.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Debugging support:

• Within the browsers console, the used JQL-statement is displayed.
• Within the browsers console, some performance figures are displayed.

• specify the days of weekends on main plugin administration, globally
• specify explicite working days on weekends per project just by clicking on the related day within the project calendar
• optimization of resource-planning view to display all issues as small boxes within the related assignee row (top-level only) instead of their direct parent row (cascading) as within Gantt-Chart view

New interactive functionality:

• move the mouse over an issue gantt bar, press down left mouse button, hold it down and move left/right to shift the gantt bar in time: interactively determine the new planned START date
• move the mouse over an issue gantt bar, press down right mouse button, hold it down and move left/right to shift the gantt bar in time: interactively determine the new planned END date

• For Admins: new project tab "Gantt-Chart" having an additional button for automatically calculate necessary planning dates (start/end) for all issues of the related project based on original estimation and today or being set analog to their sprint(s) in case of Greenhopper.
• resouce planning view displays all related issues, regarding of their hierarchy level, as small boxes within the resource row. At a glance, you can see the assignee's allocation vs. free time
• all Gantt actions on the popup menu will be shown be extending the height of the gadget or area within the project tab panel to best fit
• some bug fixes:
  - spaces within usernames do not cause any missing issues on the related Gantt-Chart any more
  - Powerpoint-Export fix
  - some Calendar fixes

• Chinese translations for Gantt-Chart Project-Tab Panel and Resource-Planning (thank's to Nicky)
• clear messages/hints while clicking on "update"-button to avoid multiple instances
• correct export of issues, containing a comma within their issue summary
• correct display of left grouping triangle
• correct display of Greenhopper non-working days
• some other bug fixes stabelizing plugin's usage

New feature(s):

• Gantt-Calendars displaying non-working days on Gantt-Chart and Resource-Diagrams, taken into account within (re-)scheduling.
• A global Gantt-Calendar helps to reduce maintance efforts. All non-working days are automatically taken over by each project.
• Per project, you can set individual non-working days like local holidays or frozen zones. If you have similar projects, you can copy a calendar from another project to the current one.
• Improved Resource-Diagram: sub-issues having another assignee than their parent issue are displayed as standalone issue but displaying the sub-issue icon to indicate this circumstance.

Minor bug fixes:

• If you have assigned all issues within your time period to a version, the artificial version "unassigned" is empty. This causes a run-time error within the script, displaying no Gantt-Chart but drawing a line per non-empty version on the screen only: fixed now.
• Dates on the header of the time line as well as today's date within the powerpoint export were not matching the configured date format: fixed now.
• Dependency arrows were shifted by one day within the powerpoint export, fixed too.

Please read the release notes of v.1.6.2 as well, if you are not familiar with them!

• flexible Export
  - generation of a Microsoft Powerpoint file on the server without the need of Microsoft Licenses
  - automatic download to the client and possibility to modify everything (I am using native powerpoint elements for the exportet Gantt-Charts)
  - auto-scaling to fit on one horizontal slide:
    daily:       up to time periods of 8 weeks
    weekly:    up to 20 weeks
    monthly:  up to 8 months
    quarterly: up to 1.5 years
  - automatic vertical slide breaks taking linkage into account

• Linking from version(s) to issue and visa versa as basis for more complex multi-project test- and release-management
• Display additional column on left side of Gantt-/Resource-Charts: original estimated effort per issue as well as summed up on version level
• Restrict visibility of Gantt-/Resource-Charts to specified project role members, only. If everybody shall view them, setup a general project role like "users" (default by Jira) and select this one.    
• Bug Fixes
  - (re-)scheduling takes time zones into account for weekend detection and other date-based calculations
  - no gadget-refresh and flickering, if you move the mouse over a Gantt-Bar
  - some minor bugs of displaying and coloring
• Introduction of a License Management

Compatibility with Jira 4.4 and bundled Greenhopper 5.7.1 (if enabled and used: version start/end dates and version hierachies are taken for Gantt-Charts and re-scheduling)

Gantt-Gadget:

• multi-project capable view for resource-planning (issues ordered by assignee)
• correct Project/Filter-Selection within Gadget when re-edit the configuration

Gantt-Chart:

• transparent, small gantt bars on folded parents in order to visualize issue overlapping
• displaying icons for issues types
• hyperlinks on versions and projects within the left chart side
• correct displaying of gantt bar width using weekly, monthly or quarterly time periods
• improved aggregations on parent levels

Resource-Planing:

• displaying of related project and version(s)
• transparent, small gantt bars on folded parents in order to visualize issue overlappings
• displaying icons for issues types

Same functionalities within both published Gantt-Chart releases of today:

• v1.5.6 with compatibility for Jira 4.3 and optional Greenhopper 5.6.x
• v1.6.0 with compatibility for Jira 4.4 with disabled Greenhopper 5.7

Within Jira 4.4, there seems to be a problem in loading Greenhopper 5.7.1 classes within my plugin causing http-500 errors. Having Greenhopper disabled, everything should work. I will try to find a suitable solution as fast as possible and publish this in v1.6.1.

Bug fixes:

• Clear messages and hints while hitting the "update"-button on the project tab panel
• Correct displaying of resource views, if show versions is disabled

Close-up to Gantt-Chart v.1.6.5:

• Export to Powerpoint
• non-Working Day Calenders (global + Greenhopper-specific + project-specific)
• Project-specific Gantt-Settings as new operation like on Project-Summary of Jira 4.4
• Adjusted Grennhopper handling equivalent to v.1.6.5
• Use shared code-basis for main functionality
• License Management like described on the Gantt-WIKI page

Based on maintaining two parallel versions (v1.5.6 for Jira 4.3 and v1.6.0 for Jira 4.4), I copied a source code sequence to v1.5.6, which used a Jira API-call available in 4.4 only: within Jira 4.3, this cause internal server error (http-500) due to diferent return types of the Jira API. This is fixed in v1.5.7.

Same functionalities within both published Gantt-Chart releases of today:

• v1.5.6 with compatibility for Jira 4.3 and optional Greenhopper 5.6.x
• v1.6.0 with compatibility for Jira 4.4 and bundled Greenhopper 5.7

• [JiraGANTT-51]  Release Versions are displayed in wrong order: fixed
• overdue versions get a warning sign on the left hand side of the Gantt-Chart

New features:

• capacity utilisation is displayed within Gantt-Bars as light-blue area from bottom to top
• information panel (?) on Gantt-Bars: duration has been added to show possible buffers, which are differences between estimations and efforts versus duration in time
• information panel (?) on Gantt-Bars: descriptions are displayed using the WIKI-style renderer, if configured within field scheme

Changes:

• completion-% color has been changed to dark-green, so that an issue, which is 100% done, will be "green"

Bug fixes:

• horizontal scrolling in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari fixed
• Ressource-Planing: closed issues and issues with no remaining work are omitted
• error in calculation of duration in working days has been fixed
• width of left table header columns are better synchronized with body column widths
• clicking on another timeline unit changes width of left table header and body columns

Gantt Gadget:

• [JiraGANTT-41] -  Selection in Gadget is not preserved when re-edited
• [none]                  -  Mouse over none issue (proj., vers.) caused exception: fixed

Resource Planning:

• [JiraGANTT-60] -  Resource Planning not working

Gantt-Chart Gadget:

• if using your own filter as criteria, only issues contained within the filter result set are displayed (previously, all related sub-issues were also shown, regardless if they were in the filter result set or not)

Gantt-Chart Panel:

• status descriptions are displayed using their translations (i18n) if available
• fix linking from normal issue to a milestone issue and vice versa
• better show completion of grouping issues

Resource Planning Panel:

• show unassigned issues separated

• full support of Jira issue security
• interactive direct issue actions and operations by click on the related Gantt-bar
• "new sub-issue" as Gantt-action: allows any issue hierachy, like sub-issue creation of a sub-issue etc. fully integrated into Jira standard features (breadcrumb etc.)
• change of the assignee by click on the related name on the left side of the diagramm or on the Gantt-bars label (if configured to be shown)
• short issue overview focussed on management by click on the question mark (?) on the related Gantt-bar (comments are displayed taking security/visibility definitions into account)
• issue linking force automatic re-scheduling of dependent issue, if Gantt-listener has been enabled
• additional project tab panel for resource management (issue grouping by assignee): initial release of this new sub-modul
• i18n / available translations:
  - German
  - English
  - Japanese
  - Russian

Release Notes - Jira Gantt-Chart Plugin - Version 1.4.0

ATTENTION: Due to a major change of the user manager (embedded crowd) by Atlassian, Jira versions previous to 4.3 are no longer compatible with Gantt-Chart Plugin 1.4.0! That's the reason, why I have renamed the version from originally 1.3.6 to 1.4.0 to reflect that major impact.

Currently supported languages

• German
• English
• If you are interested in additional languages and want to help, please send me an email at frank@polscheit.de, so that I can provide you with a list of terms for translation. After receiving it back, I will integrate this into the next release.

Bugs

• [JiraGANTT-37] - GH parent-child versions shown in reverse order
• [JiraGANTT-38] - GH child version start/end date overlapped by parent version's start/end date
• [JiraGANTT-40] - Project tab: Cannot move divider bar between issue list and Gantt-Chart

Improvement

• [JiraGANTT-20] - Full localization i18n for tab and for gadget
• [JiraGANTT-36] - L&R Scroll Bars hidden from page
• [JiraGANTT-43] - Jira 4.3 compatibility
• If you haven't configure the Gantt-Plugin and click on related ProjectTabPanel, you will be redirected to the config-page automatically.
• Microsoft IE (9) caches even AJAX calls (http-304) and do not transfer data to the server in all necessary cases. That's the reason, why some settings are not stored properly. By using pragma-nocache etc. for http1.0 and 1.1, this is fixed now.
• Gray shading of daily timeline columns, which are out of the specified time range but necessary to display to partly fitting Gantt-bars (these issues, which start earlier or ended later than the choosen time range).
• Time ranges can be relative like "-4w" to "12w" and absolute, now: like 2011-03-01 to 2011-04-30

New Feature

• [JiraGANTT-42] - Support for Greenhopper versioning and sub-versioning in issue list and gantt-chart

other Requests

• [JiraGANTT-33] - Communication ERROR
• [JiraGANTT-39] - Gadget remains empty when based on filter

• export to Microsoft Powerpoint
• drag'n drop of gantt bar to shift issues direct within the gantt chart taking working days into account
• issue linking via gantt bars to other issues or version (!)
• issue operations and actions menu on gantt bars
• issue management summary/information on gantt bars
• non-working calendars per project and globally
• Greenhopper integration
• etc.

Please read the information about my current donation model and licenses carefully. If you have any question, just contact me by email at frank@polscheit.de!

Microsoft IE is capable to display Gantt-Charts correctly, now. Due to Microsoft's limitations on the number of CSS styles as well as files, this was previously not possible and I had to rewrite the source code in order to prevent CSS files (see my release note of 1.3.3).

Within the Gantt-Admin page on "Administration", you can additionally:

• choose to automatically install the Gantt-Listener as internal listener, like Greenhopper does
  (!) Delete the Gantt-lister of older plugin versions, if installed, before clicking on this checkbox and saving this settings in order to prevent 2 listeners in parallel (I have changed the listener's name!)
• choose the date format for Gantt-Charts, globally

Various Bug fixes:

• Gantt dependencies between a milestone and another milestone as well as other Gantt bars is displayed correctly, now.
• One JavaScript variable has not bee initialized and cause problems within Microsoft IE: fixed.
• Re-scheduling has been advanced by auto-correction of start/end dates: switching them, if start date is later than end date.
• Re-scheduling of sub-issues has been corrected: extracting the previous date for calculation of a daily distance out of the issue's history and parsing this to valid dates need to take the user's locale into account.

Additional functionality:

Enhanced Gantt-Listener for issue creation and update: Greenhopper sprint/version having a start and end date are used and put into issue planning dates.

Fixes of the following problems:

1. a stripped domain name within the baseurl in some Jira instances returned by the Atlassian function applicationProperties.getString(APkeys.Jira_BASEURL) cause various problems, which should be solved, now. This effects various functions:
   - Save-Button on Gantt-Admin Panel stores settings now
   - Config-Button on the GanttTabPanel is shown correctly
   - loading of issues should work  via Ajax-call (baseurl dependent)
2. lost of user authentication within in servlets results in an user object == null, which causes other side effects. As topic 1, this occurs not generally, but in some Jira instances, making it hard to analyse as I could not reproduce this on my own envrionments.
3. the Gantt-Listener updates the customfield "Gantt" or the configured equivalent by another option for manual re-scheduling. If this customfield was not available, the listener could not be installed and fired an exception: fixed now.

Thanks to the community for all the feedback. Special thanks to Jonatan Urfalino for his efforts in installing a lot of plugin variants and sending back debugging results. Without his help, it would have last much longer!

If you are using Microsoft IE, please have a look at the release notes of plugin version 1.3.3, too!

(!) Installation hints

1. delete older Gantt-listener
2. update to 1.3.3
3. insert (again) the Gantt-listener (or after reverse order 2. and 1.)
4. configure Gantt-admin panel on main admistration page of Jira

Beside fixing all known and reported bugs (thank's to the community), this release includes:

• improved handling of user errors
• improved re-scheduling of dependent issues as well as shifting of related sub-issues
• enhanced configurations, like specification of planning date customfields and link type
• compatibility with current Jira version 4.2.4
• multi-browser tested 100% for: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and
                              partly for: Microsoft IE 9/8

Known Problems concerning Mircosoft Browser IE:

• IE7/8: Gantt-Gadget might be rendered false
           Project-Tab-Panel is working fine in compatibility mode
• IE9:    Gantt-Gadget is rendered correctly
           Project-Tab-Panel needs to be loaded twice via "F5"-Key as not all CSS-Files are loaded

The Mircosoft IE-Browsers have got a limitation of processing 31 CSS-Files only. Additional files are just skipped and ignored without any comment or hint! This is a NOT well-known error of these browsers, but a few other project have tapped into that trap as well. Unfortunately, Atlassian's plugin framework already uses a lot of CSS-files, so that my own CSS-file is number 32 and not loaded. As the files are cached within the browser, a re-load of the page results in the correct presentation/view: the CSS-files, already available from the browser cache, are not loaded again and do not count, so that the remaining CSS-files are load, now.

UPGRADE INFORMATION:

Before installation, delete the Gantt listener if you have configured it, before!
Enter your preferences on the Gantt-Administration screen and SAVE.

Additional Functionalities:

- integration of Greenhopper versions having set a start and end date as well as version hierachies

- enhanced listener for: see detailed docu. on edit-panel of listener
  - auto-generation of planned Start/End dates (issue creation event)
  - autom. re-schedule of following linked issues as well as sub-issues (issue update event)

- global Gantt-Administration:
  - specify your instance-individual Gantt-Admin. group and project-role
  - map planned start/end date and Gantt-customfield to enable renaming for internationalization

Updated Functionalities:

- calculation of %-Complete has been changed to: logged-work * 100 / (logged-work + remaining-rest)
- status icon and status description as title (on-mouse-over), configurable as Gantt bar label
- line breaks (\n) within issue summaries are replaced by ", " to fit into a single line
- multi-browser support and tested with Firefox, Microsoft IE, Google Chrome and Apple Safari
- a lot of minor enhancements

You can add a new Gantt-Gadget on a dashboard with individual configurations:

• Issues are selected by specify an individual filter or via a project AND relative time line (from - to)
• Specify the time line in days, weeks, months or quarters
• The left side of the Gantt chart, displaying information fields, can be specified in pixel

Issues will be grouped by their 'fixVersion' on the project tab panel and by 'project' and 'fixVersion' within a gadget.

Multi-Project handling is support within a gadget, including dependency links between issues of different projects.

If a version has set a release date, this date will be displayed as milestone. If the end date of a version, aggregated from its issues, is greater then this release date, the milestone is red.

All grouping elements, like projects and versions, will display their direct children as small time line in case of folded mode.

Re-Factoring of the HTML-code generation for a Gantt-Chart to increase performance.

(!) Pay attention using Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or above: do not use the compatibility mode! Older IE version cause boxing problems etc. interpreting the HTML-code.

Bug-Fixes:

• Long issue summaries are no longer cutting off a row.
• Apostrophs within summaries are escaped in order to work well, now.
• Some smaller bug fixes.

• Display only issues having set "planningStart" and "planningEnd", regardless if set manually or automatically synchronized.
• Only mark time critical issue dependencies (arrows from one issue to another) in RED all other in neutral BLUE.

Also useful for management aspects:

• Traffic-Light Status CustomField-Type:
  https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/29738

You can configure a new listener (de.polscheit.jira.listener.GanttPlanningDatesSync) on the Jira administration page as documented in Confluence for automatic sync. of "plannedEnd" with the due date (same date or previous working day) and calculation of "plannedStart" taking original estimations into account as well as general settings like working hours per day and working days per week.

Still having both planning dates, it is possible to have a due date on Sunday and an automatically calculated "plannedEnd" on the previous working day, e.g. Friday having 5 working days per week.

You can manually enter different planning dates afterwards, but these values will be overwritten the next time, you change the due date and/or original estimation.

• Updated and tested for current Jira version 4.2
• display of due dates as additional information on the left hand side of the Gantt view
• display of complete% (work logging) and remaining effort estimations when exceeding original estimation
  - dark blue part of task bar to display the progress of efforts in %
  - yellow background of task bar,
     if logged work + remaining estimation > original estimation
    (display "~x%" with x > 100 for information purposes on the right top side)
  - red task bar, if logged work > original estimation
    (display "x%" effort with x > 100 for information purposes in yellow on the left side within the task bar)
• display of milestones
  (Takes the planned start date, if new custom field 'Gantt' has been checked for 'Milestone'. Currently, no validation are build in to check due date etc.)