Kanboard Gantt Plugin: How to Highlight Today’s Date?

Hi everyone,

I’m using the Gantt plugin from the Kanboard project and ran into a usability issue. The plugin displays my projects correctly, but I struggle to locate today’s date on the timeline. Each time, it takes me about a minute to orient myself because I have project spanning over months in the past and it open on the earliest date of all projects.

Is there a way to highlight today’s date (jump to it maybe), or am I missing a configuration option?
For those who use this plugin regularly, is this a known limitation or is there a better workflow?

Thanks in advance for your insights.

EDIT : using this plugin GitHub - kanboard/plugin-gantt: [NOT MAINTAINED] Gantt charts for Kanboard

I am just seeing those little yellow squares. They seem to end on today’s date.

Nice but a highlight on the column would be more helpful imo + option to jump to the date.

I guess that this is the answer though.

I will keep the discussion open if someone has a better workflow or may propose a plugin for this plugin.

Well, this is already done. But unfortunately in such a bright color that it cannot be recognized.
To adjust this, you have to edit the file gantt.css.

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Changing the color improves the visibility. (Example)

As you can see, I’ve also adjusted the coloring for the weekends.

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Thank you for your answer, I think that I have a bug. What is supposed to be column is broken.

When I changed the color, it changed to color of those blocks.

It really looks weird, but I have no idea why.

It looks like there’s a general problem with ordering in the plugin, i see that I your screenshot, the week-end is gray, for me it is a checkerboard. I thought that it was by design.

Nope, it isn’t. Mine looks correct.

Any script blocking in effect?

Surely I am using Mozilla with some strong settings. But it does not seem to be the problem, in my admin account, everything is working fine.

Which admin? Kanboard or system?

You might tell me more about your Kanboard.

I have a regular account (Manager) that I use and an admin account on Kanboard only for system configs.

I notice that the Gantt view for “all projects” using the admin account is correct.
The Gantt view per project is correct from the regular account and admin account.

The Gantt view for “all projects” using the regular account has some rendering issues. The only difference I can pin is that I have a lot of projects in this one (around 30).

Current setup :
Kanboard v1.2.48

Plugins :
├── Bigboard
├── DashboardTaskSorting
├── Gantt
├── ICalConfig
├── MarkdownPlus
├── OAuth2
├── Relationgraph
└── SendEmailCreator

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What if you remove BigBoard temporarily to narrow down the issue?

I may have found the issue.

It seems related to zooming : Gantt Chart Display Zoom Issues - #7 by 3DTeam

When I set the browser zoom to 80% or 110% (not even 100%?), everything looks correct.

Erratum : *almost everything looks correct.

This is the output for 110%… the magic value seems to be 80%.

Ah, yes, I can confirm.

Thank you for the support, I think that I will leave it like that for now. In the other thread, they seem to have found a solution, I reached out for help.

One less mystery in the universe.