In order to use manual start and finish dates within your chart, you need to enable Manual Scheduling and select the (date or date/time) fields that will store the manually set start, finish and/or milestone dates. If these fields already contain date values, Structure. Gantt will use these values to place tasks appropriately within the chart.
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| If you do not have access to the selected field, or the field has not been added to the appropriate screens in Jira, you may receive a /wiki/spaces/strcloud/pages/3668803778. |
Read-only Values
Structure.Gantt allows you to adjust manual dates and/or work estimates simply by dragging and dropping task bars within your chart. Depending on which attribute you selected to represent these values, it may or may not be possible to update those values.
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In some cases it will not be possible to update the value of a custom field (for example, if the custom field was not added to the Issue Screen, or you do not have edit permissions). When this occurs, Structure. Gantt will display a Jira flag to let you know. |
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