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title: "The Gantt Object – Visualize Timelines and Dependencies in Board"
slug: "the-gantt-object"
description: "Learn how the Gantt Object displays time-based activities, durations, and dependencies for planning and scheduling in Board Capsules."
tags: ["Objects", "Developer", "Planner", "Gantt"]
updated: 2024-06-13T12:52:27Z
published: 2024-06-13T12:52:27Z
canonical: "help.board.com/the-gantt-object"
---

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# The Gantt Object

The Gantt chart Object is commonly used in project management and shows activities, tasks, or events displayed along a timeline. It is useful for tracking project schedules, as it is able to break down the activities on a chart and to display several information about these activities and the whole project.

On the left of the chart is a list of the activities that can also be organized in groups, and along the top is a time scale. Each bar on the right represents an activity, while its position and length indicate the start date, duration, and end date of such activity.

## Example

The following image shows a Gantt chart of a project with its main stages (thin bars), the tasks that need to be done (wide bars), their progress, and how they depend on each other. All this is displayed along a timeline, represented by the time scale above.

![contents/assets/images/assets/images/gantt-ex.png](https://cdn.document360.io/8d6f1ae8-0cac-4d0d-a208-6245b83df94a/Images/Documentation/the-gantt-object-image-e9cua4o9.png)