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Current Issues excluded from Gantt based on Date Range

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I already entered this bug report, but in the meantime, does anyone have a workaround they can suggest?  (Note that the dates are related to when I first posted the bug report; I know that they are a little old.)


I consider this to be a bug in the way Gemini selects issues for display in the Gantt chart.  Only issues whose start date and end date fall within the selected date range appear in the list.  The list should include issues whose start date or end date falls within the selected date range.

A real-life example of why this is a problem:

Last Friday (August 31, 2007) I entered a major issue and set the start date to Monday Sept 2 and the end date to Monday October 1.  Since we're a 4-person shop, I expect the issue to take a month of work to resolve.

On Monday, I opened the Gantt chart for the project, and the issue appeared within the default date range of "Today plus one month," or Sept 2 to Oct 2.

At Tuesday morning's team meeting, I opened the Gantt chart, and the default date range was Sept 3 to Oct 3.  This major, ongoing issue did not appear on the chart, even though the end date of the issue was before the end date of the chart.

Adding to the baffled looks among team members was the fact that the chart had automatically adjusted its display to include Monday, in order to display the entire week of Sept 2.

Although (for me) this is a serious issue that has existed in previous versions, I have marked this bug as "Major" and not "Showstopper" because there is a workaround of changing the start/end dates after the chart loads.  However, for some longer issues which may have timelines of several months or a year, it is not practical to set such a large date range just to ensure that these issues appear.

BorisNikolaevich
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BorisNikolaevich
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In which case i think you mean that it should show ALL issues that overlap the period you have set? eg i show th emonth of september, it should show the issue starting august through to november (for example) although neither the start date nor the end date would be in the range im specifying. The start date is BEFORE and the end date is AFTER but the issue is ONGOING from the time period queried.

logic should be to show issues whose:
(IssueStartDate  < ReviewStartDate AND IssueEndDate >= ReviewStartDate)
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(IssueStartDate >= ReviewStartDate AND IssueStartDate <= ReviewEndDate)

I do agree that logically it should show all issues for the given date, not just starting in that time. Though conceivably some people might find it useful to see what issues are startng in a given time frame (or ending) perhaps a time filtering option?



Simon@MailboxPro
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Even Simpler:

IssueStartDate <= ReviewEndDate AND IssueEndDate >= ReviewStartDate

Issues which start during the selected time frame would be shown.
Issues which end during the selected time frame would be shown.
Issues which start before and end after the selected time frame would be shown.

Issues which end before the selected time frame would not be shown.
Issues which start after the selected time frame would not be shown.


BorisNikolaevich
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Thanks for this. We are revamping the Gantt for 3.0 and will address these issues.


Saar Cohen
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Saar Cohen