Properties of task

There is a variety of properties in a task.
This page explains each property.

Property value can be edited with cell editing or the task editor.

To start cell editing, Double-click or press F2 on a cell. If the column is hidden, toggle column visibility at first.

To open the task editor, click the edit button in the top menu bar or click the edit item in the row context menu.

Property list

Property	Task editor tab	Description

Property	Task editor tab	Description
WBS	-	WBS code that represents the position of the task in the hierarchy.
Name	General	Name of the task.
Start	General	Start date and time of the task.
Finish	General	Finish date and time of the task.
Duration	General	The duration between the start and the finish of the task. Duration considers the working calendar. If there are non-working days between the start and the finish, duration doesn’t include the non-working days. You can set duration units. Units can be year, month, week, day, hour, minute, or second. You can abbreviate units when editing. e.g., mo for month, d for day. Days in a month and days in a week depend on the working calendar. See Configure working calendar for details.
Resources	Not available	Assigned resources for the task. See Assign resources to tasks for details.
Effort	Not available	The work time required to complete the task. If the task has children, this property is read-only and displays the total effort of children.
Effort mode	Not available	The mode to decide which property is recalculated when duration, assignment units, or effort is revised. See Calculate duration and assignment units using effort for details.
Status	Not available	If the task is linked to a Jira issue, the Jira issue status is displayed. Otherwise, the status depends on the % Done. If % Done is 0%, the status is “To Do”. If % Done is 100%, the status is “Done“. Otherwise, the status is “In Progress“.
%Done	General	Percentage of completion of the task.
Predecessors	Predecessors	Dependent tasks that should start/finish before the task starts/finishes.
Successors	Successors	Dependent tasks that should start/finish after the task starts/finishes.
Constraint Type	Advanced	If you set constraint type and date, the auto-scheduling engine keeps the schedule to meet the constraint. Constraint type is one of Must start on Must finish on Start no earlier than Start no later than Finish no earlier than Finish no later than
Constraint Date	Advanced	See the description of the constraint type above.
Deadline	Not available	The deadline date of the task. The finish date should be maintained to show the latest planned finish date of the project, while the deadline date should indicate the task’s deadline. The deadline doesn’t affect auto-scheduling. A flag is shown on the deadline date in the timeline.
Manually Scheduled	Advanced	If this property is enabled, the auto-schedule engine won’t change the task even if the task breaks constraint or dependent task schedule.
Rollup	Advanced	If this property is enabled, the task is shown in the parent task’s row in the timeline. See Rollup tasks for details.
Default Collapse	Advanced	If this property is enabled, the task isn’t expanded when the Gantt chart is loaded if this property is enabled. This property is meaningless in the leaf tasks.
Inactive	Advanced	Enable inactive property instead of deleting the task if you want to remove the task from the schedule but want to keep it. The auto-schedule engine treats inactive tasks as if they were deleted.
Color	General	Color of the chart object in the timeline.
Propagate Color	General	If this property is enabled, the color of the task will also apply to descendant tasks that has no color property. This property is meaningless in the leaf tasks.
Web link	Advanced	URL of the related contents. See Add web links to tasks for details.
Note	Notes	Notes of the task. See Add task notes for details.