Custom Fields #

Add your own data columns to tasks — track department, priority codes, approval status, or any project-specific information alongside the built-in fields.

Ingantt supports custom fields on tasks, including Text, Number, Flag, Date, Start, Finish, Duration, and Cost field types.

To manage custom fields, open the Custom Fields item in the Project menu. You can add custom field definitions, set aliases (display names), and configure lookup tables with predefined values.

To edit custom field values, use the Custom Fields tab of the Task Properties dialog. To add custom field columns to the task table, use the Options dialog.

Custom fields also support formulas (evaluated automatically) and rollup to summary tasks — Sum, Max, Min, Count, and Average.

Outline Codes #

Outline codes are user-defined hierarchical classification fields for tasks (e.g., department codes, location codes). Manage them from the Outline Codes item in the Project menu.

Each outline code has a code mask that defines the format per hierarchy level and a lookup table of allowed values. Assign outline code values on the Outline Codes tab of the Task Properties dialog. You can add corresponding columns to the task table.