If a Gantt tool is being marketed as a professional solution, it is fundamentally expected to support decimal values for durations and effort (at least one decimal place, e.g., 0.5 days).
In real-world project management, tasks don’t always fit into perfect 24-hour blocks. Without the ability to input decimals, the tool lacks the precision required for any serious scheduling or resource allocation.
Frankly, if this basic functionality is missing, the tool shouldn’t even be promoted as a “Gantt” solution. Professional users expect professional precision. We need this implemented to make the tool viable for actual project workflows.
Looking forward to hearing about your roadmap for this.
Hello Jairo,
Internally, Gantt stores the duration in the integer format. There is no way to change how it works. But it is possible to enter and display the duration in the decimal format. To do that, you need to use a “lower” duration_unit and add the formatters:
For example, you can store the duration in minutes, but it will be displayed in days with decimal values. If you check MS Project, under the hood, it uses the lower duration units like hours and minutes and handles how it is displayed and can be interacted with.
Also, probably, you want it to work with the working time feature: