⚠️ Gantt View is currently available in all versions of Instagantt
In project management, knowing when your team works is as important as what they do. Gaps in timelines, weekends, and non‑standard schedules can all impact delivery dates and resource planning. With Instagantt’s Custom Working Days setting, you create a schedule that reflects your team’s real working pattern — giving you more accurate timelines, clearer workload planning, and fewer surprises.
🧭 Table of Contents
Why Set Custom Working Days?
How to Configure Custom Working Days
Effects on Your Project Schedule
Summary
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
💡 Why Set Custom Working Days?
By default, many tools assume a standard Monday‑to‑Friday schedule. But your team might have different patterns — like four‑day weeks, shift work, or weekend availability. Setting custom working days ensures that every task’s duration, timeline and workload reflect actual working time, not just calendar time. This means:
More accurate project planning and durations
Better resource utilization, since your timeline matches reality
Fewer timeline surprises when non‑working days are accounted for
Better visibility in your Gantt chart of how tasks map to real working days
Using Custom Working Days aligns your project schedule with your team’s actual availability — delivering more predictable and efficient project execution.
⚙️ How to Configure Custom Working Days
Setting your working days in Instagantt is quick and straightforward:
Select Options in the top menu of your project.
Click Working Days.
Choose whether this applies to the whole workbook or only the current project — note that project‑level settings override workbook settings.
Select the days of the week that your team works (Monday through Sunday).
Click Save Preferences to apply. The changes will reflect immediately in your Gantt chart and all related views.
✅ Tip: If you have a mix of full‑week teams and part‑week schedules (e.g., 4‑day workweek or shift work), create separate projects or folders and apply custom working-day settings to each.
Example: How to Configure Custom Working Days in Instagantt
📊 Effects on Your Project Schedule
Once custom working days are active, several aspects of your schedule adjust:
-> Task durations will count only the selected working days, so deadlines reflect real work time, not just calendar days.
-> The visual timeline in your Gantt chart will skip non‑working days and align bars accordingly.
-> Workload calculations, resource allocations and time‑off simulations respond more accurately because they know which days count as work.
-> If you switch working‑day settings mid‑project, the Gantt chart will update to show the new pattern — so you can see how changes affect delivery.
By reflecting your real working pattern, customizing Working Days helps you build more reliable timelines and coordinate tasks when team availability doesn’t follow standard calendar patterns.
📌 Summary
Customizing Working Days in Instagantt lets you align your schedule to how your team actually works — not how a calendar assumes they work. By defining the right working days, your project planning, Gantt chart timelines and workload distribution become far more accurate and transparent.
🚀 Make Your Schedule Match Reality
Customize Working Days now in Instagantt and build your project schedules on the timeline that fits your team’s real availability.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Can I set different working days for different projects?
Yes, project‑level settings override workbook settings so you can specify different schedules per project.
What happens to task durations when working days change?
Task durations will recalculate to reflect only working days — non‑working days will no longer count toward task time.
Will my Gantt chart update automatically when I select new working days?
Yes, upon saving, the Gantt chart view and timeline bars reflect the updated working-day settings immediately.
Does this feature work for Instagantt for Asana?
Yes, Custom Working Days is available in all versions of Instagantt.
