How to Change What a Gantt Bar Label Shows in EDGEBIC

To change what a Gantt bar label shows in EDGEBIC, open the Schedule View Configuration tab, find the Resource Display card on the General tab, and edit the Op. Description Pattern: pick fields from the Data Source list, press Add to build the pattern, set the Delimiter, then Save and Apply Now Configuration. The label is a per-work-center display template in EDGEBIC by User Solutions, so you decide exactly which schedule fields each lane prints on its bars.

This post covers the one task. For the wider set of display switches around it, read EDGEBIC configuration options explained. To render setup and queue as their own segments on the bar itself, see how to show setup and queue time on the Gantt. The full task library lives at the EDGEBIC how-to hub.

Before You Start

• You can reach the Schedule area and its Schedule View sub-tab.
• You know whether you want to change one work center's labels or every lane's at once.
• You know which fields you want on the bar. Common choices are job number, end product, remaining hours, and quantity.

The Steps

1. Open the Schedule area and select the Schedule View sub-tab.
2. Click the Configuration tab and stay on the General tab.
3. Select the work center whose bars you want to relabel (the pattern is stored per work center).
4. Open the Resource Display card and find the Op. Description Pattern field.
5. Pick a field from the Data Source list and press Add to drop it into the pattern. Repeat for each field you want.
6. Set the Delimiter (the default is a vertical bar) so the fields read clearly when joined.
7. Press All WCs if you want this exact pattern applied to every work center instead of only the selected one.
8. Click Save and Apply Now Configuration. Every affected bar rebuilds its caption from the new pattern.

What Changes When You Save

A short, pointed pattern beats a long one. A caption of job number, end product, and remaining hours answers almost every "what is this bar" question a supervisor has without opening anything.

How to Check It Worked

Read any bar on the work center you edited. The caption should show exactly the fields you added, in order, separated by your delimiter. If a field reads as blank or zero where you expect a value, check that the field actually carries data for that operation: a material step with no work center shows no run hours, for example, and hour tokens on a freshly loaded view can take a moment to fill while the backfill runs.

Common Mistakes

Editing one lane and expecting all of them to change. The pattern is per work center. Build it, then press All WCs if you meant it everywhere.

Overloading the caption. Fields keep adding, and a bar can only fit so much text. If the label runs off the bar, cut it back to the two or three fields that matter, or raise the minimum bar width so short bars stay readable (the "extend below hours" setting on the same tab controls that).

Confusing the bar label with the BOR Designer node text. The routing designer's node captions use their own separate pattern and do not fall back to the Gantt pattern. If it is the designer nodes you want to change, edit them in the Designer's node display fields, not here.

Adding hour tokens and reading the first paint as broken. Actual and remaining hours are backfilled on demand only when those tokens are present. The very first render after you add them may lag while the numbers fill; refresh once and they settle.

What to Do Next

Labels tell you which operation a bar is; colors tell you what state it is in. To tune the palette, see how to change the Gantt color coding in EDGEBIC. If you are still learning to read the board itself, reading the EDGEBIC Gantt: planned versus actual explains what the bars are telling you, and the EDGEBIC product page shows where the Job View fits in the whole platform.