Set the first day of the week – you choose

Different countries have different ‘first days of the week’. In Europe the first day of the week is considered to be Monday, in the US and Japan it’s Sunday and in some middle eastern countries it’s Saturday.

And you can now set the first day of the week in your Gantt chart yourself. Just click the ‘settings & plugins’ button in the top toolbar and change the ‘first day of the week’ setting.

New Feature: scroll to any activity in your chart

As of today you can scroll to any activity in your Gantt chart with just one simple mouse click. When a row in your chart contains a symbol or period and you hover, with your mouse, over the row a button will apear just left of the grid with two arrows on it. Click the double arrow button and your chart will automaticaly scroll to the period or symbol in the row.

No more pop-ups and easier bookmarking!

Up until today, when you clicked the login button on the home page, the tool would open in a seperate pop-up window. We have changed that. From now on, when you click the log-in button, a new page will be loaded containing the tool. This is much more like you would expect it to work and allows you to much easier boomark your Gantt charts.

Improved import of Excel and CSV files.

When you import data from Excel or a csv file you can now choose which days are weekend days in your gantt chart and if you want to include or exclude them in your timeline. We also improved the automatic detection of dates and made some improvements to the layout of the columns area when you create a new chart with your imported data.

How IdeaRocket is using Tom’s Planner

Tom’s Planner is being used by a really wide variety of companies and organizations. Several fortune 500 companies, governements, a lot of universities and some really big global NGO’s are among our users. But we also have a lot of smaller companies using our software to create their Gantt charts.

How to Embed a Gantt chart in Atlassian’s Confluence software

Recently we got a question from one of our users on how to embed a Tom’s Planner Gantt chart in a page in Atlassians Confluence app. You can do this by adding an iFrame to a page, but it’s not as smiple to do as we would like it to be. So here is a step by step guide:

New Support Feature: Live Chat

We are introducing a Live Chat feature to Tom’s Planner, which will allow you to communicate directly with us for support. If you run into a problem on your Gantt chart or just have a question, you can now get in touch with us in just one click.

Tom’s Planner available for Android

As of today Tom’s Planner is available for Android tablets and phones. The Android version of Tom’s Planner is not a dumbed down version of the tool. It’s the full experience. You get exactly the same Gantt chart functionalities as you would on any laptop or desktop computer.

Tips – Copying and Calendar Movement

Today’s blog post is here to bring you some tips on how to better get around your Gantt chart and make changes more efficiently. These tips are especially useful for those who work on their Gantt charts on a daily basis and want to work as efficiently as possible.

Tips and Additions for Filtering your Gantt Chart

Today we wanted to talk about our new additions to the filtering feature to help with your project planning, with tips on how to use them to help organize your Gantt chart better.

Tips – Filtering your Gantt Chart

Today we wanted to look further into our filtering feature and how can you use it in your online planning to get a better overview of your Gantt chart.

New Feature – Scroll to a date

We have added a new addition to Tom’s Planner today, you can now immediately jump to specific dates in your online gantt chart.