Common issues

You get the message that your gantt is not properly configured

Your gantt is properly configured if:

  • All of the 4 mandatory columns have been mapped in the "Map Your Sheet" page (those with a " * " are mandatory). The mandatory columns are

      • Task ID

      • Task Name

      • Starting Date

      • End Date

  • At least one of the rows in the selected sheet is a valid task. A row in the selected sheet constitutes a "valid" task if it has a valid value in each of the 4 mandatory columns. In same cases you can have rows in your gantt that are not tasks (e.g. a row with a sum of the days or a row that divides one phase from another) or you can have other rows under your tasks with other information (e.g. comments or charts). These rows are automatically ignored by SlickGantt if the information in the 4 mandatory columns don't contain a valid value.

The Gantt would not load (the loading logo doesn't disappear) or the Configuration page is stuck in "Loading..."

This error is typically caused by being logged in with multiple Google accounts within the same browser page. Unfortunately Google App Scripts has a known issue that prevents to correctly deal with situations like this: basically having multiple accounts active in the browser "confuses" the app script who tries to use the wrong user to perform the action, firing several kind of Authorization issues.

You might be wondering why not all the Add-on you are using might be affected by that: only the Add-ons using a custom UI that interacts with the script back-end are affected (when the user interface is calling the back-end to perform an action).

If you have time (and good sense of humor) and want to see the bug opened with the Google team you can find it here.


HOW TO SOLVE THE ISSUE

You have 3 options:

1) Log out from all the other Google accounts in your browser. You can do it clicking on your picture on the top-right corner of the page when you are in your spreadsheet

2) Use Chrome profiles: this is a best practice working with multiple accounts and provides a good segmentation between accounts. Quoting Google, using different profiles is suggested for "keeping your different accounts, like work and personal, separate ".

Using different profiles also allows you to:

  • Have your bookmarks and Favorites segmented

  • Reopen a user session with all the windows that were opened for that account

  • Have different navigation histories

Here all the info you need to create different profiles.

3) Use an Incognito Window

Your gantt is grey (does not have colors)

The colors are assigned to each task that is marked as "Main task". If the gantt is grey it means that your tasks do not have any "type" assigned. Do the following:


  • Go to "Map your Sheet" option in the Slick Gantt menu

  • Double check that the right sheet is selected (in my example the name is "SlickGantt example 879")

  • On the line "Task Type" click on the orange button "Prepare": this will create a column in your sheet ready to accommodate the information about the task type


  • Go back to your sheet and you'll see a new column "Task Type" with a drop down list available: select "Main task" for your main tasks. Each main task (and related sub tasks) will have the same color.

If you want to change the colors assigned to tasks, use the option "Colors" in the menu.

Your Resources are duplicated

SlickGantt will create a resource profile for each name stored in each cell under the column that stores the resources.

If you have more than one resource, you can use the comma " , " to separate the resources. Note that you should not add any space after the comma, otherwise the resource might be duplicated.

Example 1:

Row 1: Bob

Row 2: John,Bob

Row 3: Jim,Clark

This will create the following resources: Bob, John, Jim, Clark


Example 2:

Row 1: Bob

Row 2: John, Bob (-> space after the comma)

Row 3: Jim,Clark

This will create the following resources: Bob, Bob(with an initial space), John, Jim, Clark


If you have a duplicate resource or if you want to delete a resource that you are not using anymore you can go to the page "Resources" and use the "X" button to delete resources that are not currently in use.

Issue using Explorer or Firefox

SlickGantt is supported only on Chrome at the moment

Are you experiencing any other issue?

Write to contact@slickgantt.com and we'll be happy to help you!