Advanced Settings: Properties

Accessing Property Settings

If you wish to edit or create your own Properties, you can do so in Advanced Settings, which can be reached by the following steps:

  1. Click on the Settings icon () in the Toolbar
  2. Click onto the Data Types tab
  3. At the top of the Properties section, click on the Edit button
  4. To edit an existing property, select the property from the list
  5. To create a new property, click on the Add button at the bottom of the list

Editing Property Fields

The tables below describes all of the settings that are available when editing or creating your own Item Types.

General Fields

Field Description Possible Values
Name A label for this item type, which will be used throughout the interface.
A short text value (e.g. "Cost", "Status", "Notes", etc.)


Format Specify the type of data that this property will hold, and how they will be shown in the inspector: 
  • Single-line text: a single-line text field that scrolls if the text is too long
  • Multi-line text: a multi-line text field that expands to the height of the entered text
  • List of options: a dropdown field to select from the listed options
  • Yes/No (Boolean): a checkbox
  • Various numeric fields: a single-line text field that only accepts numeric values
 Choose from the available options
Enabled Determines whether this Property is used in the timeline or not.

When this is not selected, the Property will not be available in your timeline and any existing property values will be removed.

Disabling the Property is the equivalent of deleting it, except it remains in the list for you to activate later.
Calculate parent values from children When enabled, values for parent items are calculated based on the values of their children.

Examples include:
  • the "cost" of a task could be automatically calculated as the sum of the cost of all sub-tasks
  • whether a task is "complete" could be automatically calculated based on whether all of its sub-tasks are complete

This field is not available for text or list values.


Indicate Item Completion When enabled, items will be considered "complete" and shown with a line through the text based on the value of this field.

Only available for the following field types:
  • Yes/No: The item is "complete" if the checkbox is ticked
  • Percentage: The item is "complete" if the value is 100%
This can only be enabled for one property.
Calculation Mode When "Calculate parent values from children" is enabled, this field specifies the type of calculation used.

Available values change based on the field type:
  • Yes/No: 
    • All children ticked: The parent item is ticked if all of its children have this value ticked
    • Any child ticked: The parent item is ticked if any of its children have this value ticked
  • Percentage: 
    • Average Percentage: The parent item's value is the average of all of its child values. All children are given equal weighting
    • Weighted Percentage: The parent item's value is a weighted average of all of its child values. Each child is weighted according to its duration.
  • Other Numeric fields:
    • Sum: The parent item's value is the sum of all its child values
    • Average: The parent item's value is the average of all its child values
    • Maximum: The parent item's value is the maximum of all its child values
    • Minimum: The parent item's value is the minimum of all its child values
 Choose from available options
Options When the field type is List of options, this section allows you to specify which options are present in the list.

To add items, type a value and hit Enter. The form will automatically grow, allowing you to add more options. 		Type a short string for each option you want included in the list of options
Applies to Item Types Select the item types that will include this property in the Inspector.

This mirrors the setting in the Item Types tab.