# 2026.10.22 > Plan a quarter in the Gantt, with stages, the people on them, their time off and working days. ## ✨ New ### Gantt: Plan with stages [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/stages/#stages) See a whole quarter on one chart: every task is cut into stages such as Discovery, Design and Build, with the people planned for each one. Drag across a row to add a stage, or click for a week, and the next stage picks the type that follows. **Turn it on once** Planning is off by default. An admin turns it on in Settings, and every Gantt on this tiko gets stages. **Your own stage types** Rename, recolor or archive the types every board shares, so the chart speaks your team's words. **A new type on the spot** Missing a phase? Add it from any stage with New type, without leaving the chart. ### Gantt: People on stages [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/stages/#people-on-stages) Put people on a stage to see who works on what, and when. They come from one list for the whole tiko, and most of them never need an account. **Names where you want them** Show names after the stage type, or under each stage when the bars are short. **A count when names don't fit** A short stage shows how many people it has. Click it to see who they are. **Add someone while you plan** Type a new name in a stage and add the person to the list in one step. **Assignees from your tracker** The assignees of the Gantt's tasks are offered too. Nobody is added until you pick them. **One list for every board** Keep names and teams in Settings. Teams then work in filters across every Gantt. ### Gantt: Columns [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/columns-and-filters/#columns) Show Priority, Size, Team or a field of your own next to the task titles, and type values straight into the cells. Values stay on the board and never go to your tracker. **Children follow the parent** Set a value once on a parent row and its children show it in gray. Type over it where a child differs. **A field of your own** Need a Quarter or a Budget code? Type its name, and every Gantt can show it. **Fields in Settings** Rename the standard fields or archive your own. Archived fields keep their values in the rows. ### Gantt: Filters and views [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/columns-and-filters/#filters-and-views) Narrow a busy chart to one team, one person or one priority. Save the filters as a view, and every Gantt on this tiko can apply it in one click. **Where a team takes part** A team filter also finds tasks owned by other teams where one of its people has a stage. **One person's plan** Filter by a person to see only the tasks they work on. **Views for every Gantt** Saved views sit above the rows. Click one to apply it, click it again to show every task. ### Gantt: Time off [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/working-time/#time-off) Mark when someone is away, once, and every Gantt where they have a stage shows it. A stage that clashes with time off gets a red outline, so you spot the problem before it happens. **Draw it on the chart** Drag across the Time off lane and pick who is away. Their stages in those days turn red at once. **Who is away, and when** Open a red stage to see whose time off it overlaps. **Or add it in Settings** Pick the first and last day under a person. tiko keeps only the dates, never the reason. ### Settings: Workload [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/working-time/#workload) See the next twelve weeks of one person across every board, and the days they have two stages at once. Click a stage in the list to open its board. **Clashes in red** A week turns red when two stages fall on the same working day. A week with time off is hatched. ### Gantt: Working days [Read in the guide](https://docs.tiko.run/gantt/working-time/#working-days) Hide weekends from a Gantt with Working days only. Stages snap to working days and every duration counts only the days people work. **Weekends out of the way** Turn it on from the Gantt's menu. Weeks then read Monday to Friday, such as 19–23. **Holidays for everyone** Days off from Settings are shaded on the chart and left out of every count. **Durations you can trust** A stage from Monday to Friday reads 5 days, not 7. **Days off in Settings** Add a national holiday or a team day once, and every Gantt with working days respects it. ## 💎 Improvements - **Gantt:** The chart is easier to read: larger text and stages, taller rows, centered header labels and months spelled out. - **Gantt:** The Weeks scale shows months over weeks, and each week reads by its dates, such as 5–9, instead of a week number. - **Guide:** What's new: a page for every release, with what you can try, short clips and pictures. Click a clip or a picture to see it full size. - **Guide:** Pages open without a full reload, the header stays in place, and the text is larger everywhere. ## 🐞 Fixes - **Guide:** Fixed pages with code blocks jumping right after you open them.