Stages and people

Stages

With Planning on, a row is cut into stages: discovery, design, build, a pause, or whatever your team calls its phases. It is on in a new tiko; an instance set up before keeps the switch where it was, and an admin turns it on in Settings → Stages and people. Switching it off keeps every stage: the Gantt then shows one bar per task again.

• Drag across free days of a row to add a stage. A click adds one week.
• Click a stage to pick its type or delete it. A bar that has no stages yet reads “No stage” until you pick one.
• Drag a stage to move it, or its ends to change its dates. On its own a stage stops at its neighbours, so stages never overlap. Hold Alt while moving or stretching it to the right, and it pushes the later stages of its row by the same days, gaps kept, so a plan shifts by a week in one drag.
• A new stage takes the type that follows the previous one.

Stage types belong to the whole tiko: add one from a stage with New type, rename, recolor or archive it in Settings → Stages and people. An archived type stays on the stages that use it, and new stages cannot pick it. A task card dropped into the Gantt becomes a row with one bar, as before.

People on stages

Each stage can name the people planned for it. They come from one list for the whole tiko, in Settings → Stages and people, also under ⋯ → People in the Gantt controls. Most of them never sign in, so this list is separate from the accounts in Settings → People.

• Type a name in a stage’s popover to pick someone from the list.
• A name nobody has yet offers Add “Name” to people.
• Assignees of the tasks in this Gantt who are not in the list show as From tracker. Picking one adds them; nobody is imported until you pick them.

The tracker’s assignee and the stage’s people are independent: the tracker says who owns the task now, a stage says who is planned for that phase. Names show after the stage type, or centered under each stage with ⋯ → Under each stage. When they do not fit, the stage shows a people icon with a count; click the stage for the list. An archived person stays on old stages, muted, and is not offered again. Someone viewing a public link sees the names but cannot change them.

On the public demo the people and stage types are made up and yours to change: every visitor gets a copy of their own.