Grouping activities

Grouping allows activities in the schedule to be organised according to a specific field.

Unlike sorting, which only changes the order of activities in the table, grouping creates additional visual levels in the Gantt chart.

This helps structure the schedule display and facilitates the analysis of activities.

To open the grouping settings:

1. click the Group by button in the Gantt toolbar

The grouping configuration window will appear.

Grouping is based on an activity field.

To create a grouping:

1. select a field from the list (for example: Zone, ID, activity type, etc.)
2. optionally choose a colour
3. click Add

The field will then appear in the list of active groupings.

Activities will automatically be grouped in the Gantt chart according to the value of this field.

In the example shown:

• activities are grouped according to the Area field
• each zone becomes a grouping level
• activities belonging to the same area are displayed together

This makes it easy to visualise how work is distributed across the different project areas.

To remove a grouping:

1. click the Remove icon in the list of groupings

The schedule display will then return to the standard organisation.

Two additional options are available:

No grouping

Disables all grouping and restores the standard activity display.

Show simple activities only

Allows structural activities to be hidden and displays only operational activities.

It is important to distinguish between these two features.

Sorting

• changes the order of activities in the table
• is performed by clicking column headers

Grouping

• creates visual categories in the Gantt chart
• groups activities according to a common field

Both tools can be used together to improve the readability of the schedule.