How to Zoom the Gantt Timeline in EDGEBIC

To zoom the Gantt timeline in EDGEBIC, right-click an empty area of the Gantt and choose Timescale Zoom In or Timescale Zoom Out; to reach further out, use Horizon End Later or Horizon Start Earlier, which grow the visible range by a month. On the one-job Job View tab you also get a View selector with fixed Hour, Day, Week, and Month steps. Every one of these is a display control in EDGEBIC by User Solutions, so the plan never moves when you zoom.

This post covers the one task. To read the bars you zoom into, see reading the EDGEBIC Gantt: planned versus actual. To bound how far the timeline scrolls and add buffer weeks before the earliest start, see how to set how far the Gantt timeline scrolls. The full task library is at the EDGEBIC how-to hub.

Before You Start

• At least one job is scheduled, so the Gantt has bars to zoom.
• You know the difference between zoom (how much time a column covers) and horizon (how far the timeline reaches).
• You are on either the whole-plant scheduler Gantt (Schedule View) or the one-job Job View tab.

The Steps

1. Right-click an empty area of the Gantt (not on a bar) to open the timeline menu.
2. Choose Timescale Zoom In to narrow each column so bars spread out, or Timescale Zoom Out to compress the timeline and fit more days.
3. To reach a distant operation, choose Horizon End Later to grow the right edge by a month, or Horizon Start Earlier to grow the left edge.
4. Click Today on the toolbar to scroll the timeline so today is the first visible column.
5. On the Job View tab, use the View: selector to jump straight to Hour, Day, Week, or Month, and Show as Hours to switch the strip's unit.

What Changes When You Save

There is no save step. Zoom and horizon commands apply the moment you click them.

If you want the horizon to open at a consistent place every time you load the board rather than adjusting it by hand, the Timeline Limits card in the scheduler configuration lets you set where the timeline starts and add a buffer of weeks before the first scheduled operation.

How to Check It Worked

After zooming in, a single day should read across several columns and short segments like setup and queue time become distinguishable. After Horizon End Later, an operation that was previously off the right edge should now draw. After Today, the leftmost visible column should be the current day. If none of that happens, confirm you right-clicked empty space rather than a bar, which opens the operation menu instead.

Common Mistakes

Zooming when you meant to extend the horizon. Zooming in on a timeline that ends before your job will never reveal that job; the operation is outside the range, not just small. Use Horizon End Later to reach it.

Right-clicking a bar instead of empty space. A right-click on a bar opens the operation context menu (move, log actuals, clear actuals), not the timeline commands. Aim for an empty lane area.

Expecting zoom to change the schedule. Zoom is purely cosmetic. If bars look like they moved, they only redrew at a new scale; the dates are identical.

Fighting the Job View selector with repeated zoom clicks. On the one-job Job View, the View selector's Hour, Day, Week, and Month steps are usually faster than clicking Timescale Zoom several times.

What to Do Next

Zoom controls how tightly a window is spread across the screen; the date pickers control which window you are looking at in the first place. Both are worth settling before you capture the board, because exporting the Gantt as an image records exactly the range and zoom on screen. To bound the window itself, read how to restrict the Job View to a date window in EDGEBIC. For the full set of display switches on this screen, EDGEBIC configuration options explained is the overview, and the EDGEBIC product page shows where the scheduler board sits in the platform.