Creating Groups & Swimlanes

While creating a task, vPlanner allows the user to specify various attributes. The activities in an entire project can be grouped by those attributes and presented as required by the user. To do this go to the Group Menu.

Group Chains - Chains are interconnected parts of a plan. The user can use this tool to evaluate the overall connectivity of the visible tasks in the given view. Group Chains option basically separates the different workflow chains.

Different chains of workflow
Single Attribute Groups - The single attribute groups option under the Group menu helps the user group the activities in the given view by various attributes like Team, Phase, Company, Category, Department, Floor, Zone, System etc. To do this, right click on the Single Attribute Groups option under the Group menu and select one of the "Group by ..." options.

Single Attribute Groups
Single Attribute Swimlanes - The single attribute swimlanes option under the Group menu helps the user group the activities in the given view into Swimlanes by various attributes like Team, Company, Department, Floor, Zone etc. To do this, right click on the Single Attribute Swimlanes option under the Group menu and select one of the "Swimlanes by ..." options.

Single Attribute Swimlanes

Swimlane Shortcuts - The swimlane shortcuts option under the Group menu helps the user group the activities in the given view into multiple levels. For example, the activities can be grouped and sub grouped based on various levels of filters like Building_Floor_Zone. The grouping structure trickles down from groups based on Building to groups based on Zones within that Building. To do this, right click on the Swimlane Shortcuts option under the Group menu and select one of the "Swimlanes By ..._..._..." options.

Swimlane Shortcuts