Gantt for NetSuite
Timeline — marketed as Gantt for NetSuite — brings full Gantt-chart project scheduling and resource management directly inside NetSuite. It runs as a SuiteApp; you don't leave NetSuite to plan, schedule, or update your projects.
What it does
Timeline turns a NetSuite project (Job) into a fully-featured Gantt chart with task hierarchies, dependencies, baselines, critical path, resource allocation and calendar management — all of it stored natively in NetSuite, secured by NetSuite roles, and visible alongside the rest of the project's financial information.
The Gantt itself is rendered inside a Suitelet using a TreeGrid widget. Users can:
- Drag bars to reschedule, with dependent tasks auto-updating
- Add tasks inline with full hierarchy nesting
- Link tasks with finish-to-start (FS), start-to-start (SS), finish-to-finish (FF) and start-to-finish (SF) dependencies, with lag
- Track baseline plan dates against actuals
- Apply project calendars that honour weekends and holidays (by country / region)
- Allocate Employees, Vendors, Equipment, Roles or Crews to tasks
- Roll up actual hours from Time Bill entries into task progress
Capabilities at a glance
| Capability | Notes |
|---|---|
| Gantt visualisation | TreeGrid-based chart with drag-and-drop, zoom, and critical-path highlighting |
| Task hierarchy | Unlimited nesting via parent/child task relationships |
| Dependencies | FS, SS, FF, SF, with positive or negative lag |
| Baselines | Plan-vs-actual date tracking per task |
| Resources | Five resource types — Employee, Equipment, Vendor, Role, Crew |
| Calendars | Multi-calendar support — country/state holidays, project-specific working days |
| Templates | Reusable schedules with relative day offsets, applied to new projects |
| CSV import | Bulk task import with outline-number hierarchy and predecessor resolution |
| Email notifications | Status-triggered emails (call-up, in-progress, reminder) |
| Dashboard portlet | Timeline summary widget for the NetSuite dashboard |
| CRM task sync | Generate native NetSuite Tasks from Gantt tasks; sync actuals back |
| Timesheet integration | Actual hours from Time Bill records roll into task progress |
Two main views
The Gantt chart is the primary view, scoped to one Gantt at a time. Each project (Job) typically has one Gantt, though you can have multiple Gantts on the same project for scenario versions or what-ifs.
Resource Planning is a secondary view that shows resource utilisation across every project in the account — filtered by resource type and grouped by resource. This is where you spot double-bookings; the chart doesn't proactively warn you at the point of assignment.
How Timeline fits with the other SuiteApps
- Project Financials — When PF is installed, Gantt tasks can be linked to Estimate items for billing and cost tracking. The link is detected automatically; no extra configuration is required.
- Field Service Management (the standard NetSuite bundle) — When FSM is detected, Gantt tasks expose FSM Asset, FSM Task Type and FSM Task fields.
- Advanced Jobs — When this NetSuite feature is enabled, the Gantt switches its project field from the standard Customer field to the Job field, letting you link Gantts to full Job records.
Next steps
- Quick start — your first Gantt on a project
- Install & configure — dependencies, features, and the Timeline configuration record
- Create a Gantt from a template — reusable schedules
- Add tasks and dependencies — build out the schedule
- Allocate resources — assign people, equipment, vendors, roles, or crews
- Task fields reference — what each Gantt Task field means