Gantt charts for your Request Tracker tickets — redesigned for RT 6 with Bootstrap 5 styling, full-width responsive layout, and inline editing of owner and dates directly in the chart.
The original extension rendered the chart in a fixed-width area that left most of the page unused, used small fonts with poor contrast, and offered no way to edit tickets inline.
The redesigned extension fills the full content area, matches the RT 6 Bootstrap 5 look and feel, and allows owners and dates to be changed directly in the chart view.
- Full-width responsive layout — the chart expands to fill the entire RT content area and redraws automatically on window resize
- Bootstrap 5 styling — fonts, colours, borders and buttons use Bootstrap CSS variables; dark mode is supported via
[data-bs-theme=dark] - Inline owner editing — an Owner dropdown per ticket lets you reassign tickets without leaving the Gantt view; only users with the
OwnTicketright in the ticket's queue are shown - Inline date editing — native browser date pickers for the Starts (Start) and Due (End) fields; changes are saved to RT immediately via the REST 2.0 API
- Visual save feedback — green border flash on success, red border and alert on error
- Format-specific default date ranges — separate
DefaultDaysvalues for Day, Week, Month and Quarter views - Bootstrap button group for the Day / Week / Month / Quarter format selector (replaces old radio buttons)
- Dependency arrows rendered correctly over the full-width chart area
Works with RT 6.0 and 5.0.
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install # may need root/sudo
Edit /opt/rt6/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm and add:
Plugin('RT::Extension::JSGantt');Clear the Mason cache and restart your web server:
rm -rf /opt/rt6/var/mason_data/obj
systemctl restart apache2 # or your web serverAdd a Set( %JSGanttOptions, … ) block to /opt/rt6/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm.
All keys are optional; the values below are the defaults.
Set(
%JSGanttOptions,
# ── Chart appearance ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Initial view format when the chart loads
DefaultFormat => 'day', # 'day' | 'week' | 'month' | 'quarter'
# Which columns to show in the left panel
ShowOwner => 1, # Owner column (inline-editable dropdown)
ShowDuration => 1, # Duration column
ShowProgress => 1, # % Complete column
# ShowStartDate => 1, # Start date column (inline-editable date picker)
# ShowEndDate => 1, # End date column (inline-editable date picker)
# Caption shown inside each task bar
# CaptionType => 'Resource', # 'Resource' | 'Caption' | 'Duration' | 'Complete' | 'None'
# Date formats (mm/dd/yyyy | dd/mm/yyyy | yyyy-mm-dd)
# DateInputFormat => 'mm/dd/yyyy',
# DateDisplayFormat => 'mm/dd/yyyy',
# Which zoom buttons to show at the bottom of the left panel
# FormatArr => q|'day','week','month','quarter'|,
# ── Colours ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Colour tickets by owner for easy identification (default: on)
# ColorSchemeByOwner => 1,
# Fixed colour palette (six hex codes, no leading #)
# ColorScheme => ['ff0000', 'ffff00', 'ff00ff', '00ff00', '00ffff', '0000ff'],
# Per-owner colour overrides (unspecified owners get an auto-assigned colour)
# ColorSchemeByOwner => { root => 'ff0000', alice => '00cc00' },
# Colour used when a ticket has no Starts/Due dates
NullDatesColor => '333333',
# ── Date-range defaults ────────────────────────────────────────────────
# When a ticket has no dates and no time estimate, the chart displays a
# bar spanning this many days. DefaultDays is the global fallback;
# the per-format keys take precedence when that format is active.
DefaultDays => 31,
# DefaultDaysDay => 31,
# DefaultDaysWeek => 90,
# DefaultDaysMonth => 180,
# DefaultDaysQuarter => 365,
# ── Time calculation ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Used to convert TimeEstimated / TimeLeft (minutes) into days
WorkingHoursPerDay => 8,
);The Owner column renders a dropdown (<select>) for every non-group ticket row.
The list contains only privileged users who hold the OwnTicket right in the
queue of that ticket — across all queues shown in the current chart.
Selecting a new owner immediately sends a PUT request to the RT REST 2.0 API
(/REST/2.0/ticket/{id}) and updates the ticket.
The Start and End columns render native <input type="date"> date pickers.
Changing a date immediately sends a PUT request to the REST 2.0 API, setting
the ticket's Starts (Start) or Due (End) field.
Both fields give visual feedback:
- Green border flash — change saved successfully
- Red border + alert — RT returned an error (the error message is shown)
Permissions note: The logged-in user must have
ModifyTicket(andReassignTicketfor owner changes) in the relevant queue for the save to succeed. RT will return an error otherwise.
Given a ticket, returns all related tickets (parent, children, dependencies) including the original ticket itself.
my @tickets = RT::Extension::JSGantt->AllRelatedTickets(
Ticket => $ticket,
CurrentUser => $session{CurrentUser},
);Given an array of ticket objects, resolves the data needed by the chart (name, start, end, colour, owner, progress, dependencies, …). Returns a two-element list: an arrayref of IDs and a hashref of info.
my ($ids, $info) = RT::Extension::JSGantt->TicketsInfo(
Tickets => \@tickets,
CurrentUser => $session{CurrentUser},
);Given a ticket, resolves its start and end dates from the ticket fields,
transaction history, and time estimates.
Returns ($start_obj, $start_str, $end_obj, $end_str).
If you had the undocumented DateDayBeforeMonth option set, replace it with:
Set( %JSGanttOptions, DateDisplayFormat => 'dd/mm/yyyy' );The built-in fallback for DefaultDays has been raised from 7 to 31 days so
that charts look populated out of the box. If you had DefaultDays => 7 in
your config and want to keep that behaviour, set it explicitly.
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RT 6 redesign (Bootstrap 5 layout, inline editing, format-specific defaults) contributed by the RT::Extension::JSGantt community.
Report bugs by email to bug-RT-Extension-JSGantt@rt.cpan.org or via the web at rt.cpan.org.
This software is Copyright (c) 2014–2025 by Best Practical Solutions.
This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991.