The Project Gantt draws a Gantt chart of jobs that are part of a project as defined by the DMS Job Identification. Projects and their jobs to graph are selected from Mfg Orders Job Grid.  A bar is drawn for each project, which is a summary of all the jobs in the project, followed by each job within the project.  Note that the projects and jobs graphed are dependent on the selections made in the Mfg Orders Job Grid.

In Mfg Orders Job Grid, select Graphs | Project Gantt to graph the projects and their jobs.

The Project Gantt verifies the graph:

Click Yes to continue or No to abort the Project Gantt.  If Yes is selected, the Project Gantt is loaded with jobs:

You can abort the loading of projects and jobs into the Project Gantt by clicking on the Abort button.  If Abort is selected, DMS will ask you if you want to abort loading the remaining projects.  Click Yes to abort the load and display the Project Gantt with the projects and jobs that have already been loaded.  Click No to continue loading projects and jobs.

Once the selected projects and jobs have been loaded, the Project Gantt chart is displayed:

To display a bar or graph symbols detail hover the mouse cursor over the bar/symbol.  A popup hint will appear displaying details on the bar/symbol.

The following tabs and commands are available:

File

1. New Job  Add a new job using Manufacturing Order Job Details
2. Edit Job  Edit the selected job using Manufacturing Order Job Details
3. Runs With Jobs A Runs With Job Group can be setup.  Select the job to be a runs with job and select File | Runs With Jobs.  The Runs With Jobs Window appears.
4. Print Menu Select File | Print Menu to print a DMS Report as setup by Module Report Settings.
5. Print Gantt  Select File | Print Gantt to print the current Gantt graph. 

 

View

1. Job/Operations Grid Columns
2. Default menu tab

Options

1. Legend Select Options | Legend to display the Project Gantt Chart Legend.
2. Gantt Options Select Options | Gantt Options to set the display Job Gantt options.
3. Time Scale The Time Scale for the capacity graph can be one of the following:
1. Shifts
2. Days
3. Weeks
4. Months
5. Quarters
4. Sort By  Select options | Sort By Jobs to display a menu to sort the jobs by:
   
   
   
   Assemblies (if displaying assembly jobs) can sort by Assembly Start Date or Assembly End Date

Manufacturing

1. New Job to add a new job.
2. Edit Job to edit the first job in the Manufacturing Order job tree.
3. Calendar/Capacity Changes are changes you want to make to the manufacturing calendar such as holidays, planned overtime, planned shut downs, etc.
4. Resources  is used to add, edit, delete resource settings.
5. Schedule Run  Run a global schedule.
6. Job Updating  is used to manually enter detailed time updates to a job.
7. Start/Stop Clock  The Start/Stop Clock Updating is an alternate method to to update a job with times and quantities typically used by a timekeeper or shop floor personnel.
8. Start/Stop Clock Edit  If using Start/Stop Clock Updating, the Edit Start/Stop Clock Job Updating enables an authorized user to edit existing start/stop clock entries. 

A right click on the Gantt chart will display the popup menu shown below.

The following popup commands are available by using the mouse right click on the graph:

1. Go to Bar Start Select this command to move to the start of a bar on the graph.
2. Go to Bar End Select this command to move to the end of a bar on the graph.
3. Go to Job Release Date Select this command to move to the job’s release date on the graph.
4. Go to Job Due Date Select this command to move to the job’s due date on the graph.
5. Expand All Expand all the project trees to see all the jobs under a project.
6. Collapse All Collapse all the project trees and display the project bar only.
7. Material Display  Use the right mouse button and select Material Display to display the material for the job using Material Display. 
8. Job Gantt Display the selected job’s details in the Job Gantt Chart.
9. Edit Job/Operations For the selected job use Manufacturing Order Job Details to edit the job and operations.
10. Update Job For the selected job use Job Status Updating to update the status of a job and its operations.
11. Quick Job Updating For the selected job use Quick Job Updating to update the status of a job and its operations.
12. Start/Stop Clock Job Updating For the selected job use the Start/Stop Clock Updating to update the status of a job and its operations.
13. Runs With Jobs  A Runs With Job Group can be setup by selecting the job to be a runs with job and either select File | Runs With Jobs or right click on the Job Tree and select Runs With Jobs from the popup menu.  The Runs With Jobs Window appears.

The windows below shows an example of the Job Gantt popup command selected for job MO00100:

When a job is selected to be graphed from the Project Gantt, only the selected job appears in the Job Gantt.