Gantt Chart - Sort "Group by" by date

Feature requests
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My organisation would like to be able to sort groups in Gantt Chart view by date

Problem

Presently, when the Gantt Chart view is set to Group by Group, Items under each Group are sorted by date, which is great! But Groups themselves do not appear in order of date against each other. Instead, Groups appear in the same order they are in on the main table, despite the dates of the Items with in them. (Pic 1)

This also applies when Group by is set to other column types, such as Status. The order of the Status Groups is determined by the order of the Labels on the main table. (Pic 2)

Effect

Practically speaking, this means to see what Items or tasks are coming up next, we have to scroll up and down, or collapse the groups and reopen them to see the Item detail. (Pics 1, 3, 4)

Alternate solutions explored

We have tried using Subitems - Converting Group level to Item level, and Item level to Sub-item. However, we ran into other issues with subitems.

If we remove the Group by setting, all of the Items appear together, without the context that the Group title provided. Our boards have many groups and tasks, making colour settings and legends complex. (Pic 6)

Desired Feature

It would be enormously beneficial to me and my organisation (and I’m sure others) if it became possible to sort Groups by the Group Summary (Presently, the Group Summary, under Settings → View Settings, includes the duration of all items within each Group. (Pic 5))

Screenshots

  1. Gantt Chart view with all Groups collapsed. You can clearly see they are not sorted in date order.

Group sort example - groups collapsed

  1. Gantt Chart view with Group by set to Status. You can see that the Order of the Groups matches the order of the Labels in table view.

    Group sort example - Group by Status
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  2. Gantt Chart view with all Groups expanded. You can see the Items under each Group are in date order within each group. But the groups are not in order date order themselves.

Group sort example - groups expanded

  1. A screen recording of the Groups expanded, showing the need to scroll to get a full picture of Items coming up next.

https://youtu.be/NX0Li1P1SIo

  1. Group Summary setting under Settings → View Settings

Group sort example - Group Summary duration
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  1. Gantt Chart without Groups. (Group by set to None)

Group sort example - Group by None
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Couldn’t agree more. This is a huge blocker for us at the moment.

The annoying thing is that sort was available in the previous gantt view but not in the new gantt widget. It’s even in the help guides: https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015643840-The-Gantt-View

It’s so frustrating when the solution’s been built and was active. Feels like a step back in direction.

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I have the same problem. Would really like to sort the dates per group.

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Hi
is there any update, this is a super important feature!!!

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desperately need this as well

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Hi how are you doing,
I can to this view in Gannt Chart
It´s necessary to change something in the configuration, in my case was necessary change the option Group By, I changed for BOARD

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Thanks Filipe. But I don’t want a board per project. I want multiple projects on one board (as groups).

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hey Monday, it been now one year, without this feature a big portfolio with more than 100 items (we have games) can not be tracked… Monday.com is not good for big companies with big portfolio… I think we have to chose JIRA, it is ugly, but at least functioning and stable…