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gGanttic is a rich web-based application that lets individuals and collaborative teams managing projects online.

Part of Online Office
gGanttic Google Spreadsheets as a Gantt charts view and allows visual interactive online editing. Rather then standing in its own right like most project planning softwarer does, gGanttic tries to blend into overall “online office“ experience. Besides being based on Google Spreadsheets, it is designed to integrate with Google Calendar for working time information and daily tasks, and with Google Contacts to manage resources, and with Google Talk for instant collaboration, and with Google Documents for task attachments.

Software
gGanttic is developed using cross-platform browser add-on technology, Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 gGanttic uses Google Docs interface to read Google Spreadsheets data, interpret it, present in the interactive Gantt charts view.

History
gGanttic is a result of frustration with existing online project management solutions. The small team of software developers endeavored to create an online task editor suitable for agile developement. The result is an application that allows changing tasks dates in 5 tasks in 5 second rather then 3 minute.

Internal releases: Alpha release to private group of testers:
 * December 2007, using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, basic functionality, drag for changing of Begin date and duration.
 * March 2008, using Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1, task editing dialog
 * June 2008, using Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, dependencies, save project.
 * August 2008, the public beta test taken private again, to concentrate on bug fixes.
 * November 2008, using Silverlight 2.0 Release (RTW) bug fixes, performance improvements, use of Google GData Batch updates.

Expected private Beta release: Expected public Beta release:
 * January 2009
 * February 2009

The 2.0 version uses extensive AJAX programming within the user-interface to provides inline editing, customizable column layouts, drag-and-drop scheduling on gantt charts and Event Calendars.

Viewpath’s design includes both linear and nonlinear planning strategies to provide flexibility in managing projects even when scheduling details may still be unknown. This contrasts to traditional tools that requires every activity have a start and finish date in a linear schedule.