Kantree April 2025: gantt, automation, permissions

Every month, check out our latest updates. This month, we’ve selected some key changes. If you want to know more, head over to our changelog.

On the menu today:

1. Gantt release
2. User experience - Automations
3. View-based permissions

Gantt release

What is a Gantt chart?

The Gantt chart is one of the most classic and useful ways to display activities and their duration. It is a horizontal bar chart that shows the project timeline, as well as tasks or events between start and end dates. Each bar in the Gantt chart represents a task, and the dates are displayed horizontally, with a view of dependencies and milestones.

The Gantt chart as presented in Kantree

How to use it in Kantree?

This view is available to “Business” and “Enterprise” plan customers.

Use the Gantt view directly

Let’s take a look at the composition of a Gantt chart with a simple case to get familiar with it. We’ll use the example of a project with several subtasks.

Step 1: create the project card and the linked subtasks

In our example, Project 1 has 5 subcards

Step 2: create a “dependencies” field

This field allows you to link cards to each other and is mandatory. Do not confuse it with the “Relation” field, which only shows the relation without the arrow.

Create dependencies between subtasks

Step 3: Link the subcards according to the desired dependencies

Either directly in the cards or by hovering to the right of the orange block and dragging the small dot to the desired destination

Step 4: Customize your chart in every way

In the toolbar, you’ll find the “appearance” menu. To display a milestone, you first need to create a “date” field in the subcard. Several options are available: critical path, color customization, strikethrough for completed cards…

You can customize your Gantt chart in every way

User experience - Automations

Improve clarity: the list of triggers and actions has grown in automations, requiring better organization into sections.

You can now act directly within the card

New rule categories:

• Actions by cards
• Scheduled actions

Different types of triggers

Trigger categories:

• Events on cards
• Events on a workspace
• Calendar

View-based permissions

Manage more user groups within the same workspace. Encourage collaboration without multiplying workspaces.

Manage permissions per view directly

This update makes it possible to give access to specific public views for one or more custom roles. This option is also available at the sub-board view level.

Use case: you want to grant editing rights only on a specific view (suppliers, partners, or other internal organizations).

It is not possible to manage Kantree’s standard, non-editable roles: Admin, Member, Commenting Observer, Observer

This permission setup will become visible once the user reloads the page.