ANTE User Manual

Project Views

Organize a project's tasks the way that suits the work in front of you. Each project has its own set of Views — a grouped task list, a Kanban board, or a calendar timeline — that you can add, rename, duplicate, reorder, and delete. Every view remembers its own grouping, filters, columns, and other display settings.

Overview

A project's Views sit on the project detail page, in the tab bar directly after the Overview tab. Views are like saved "lenses" on the same set of tasks: switch between them at any time to see the same work as a list, as a board, or as a timeline.

Each project starts with one view automatically. The first time you open a project that has no views yet, ANTE creates a default list view called Project Tracker for you.

Views are personal-and-shared: you choose, per view, whether only you can see it (Private), everyone can see it but only you can edit it (Shared), or everyone can both see and edit it (Public). See Privacy below.

View types

When you add a view, you pick one of four types:

TypeWhat it shows
Project Tracker (List)A grouped task list with drag & drop. Tasks are organized into groups (by milestone, status, priority, assignee, and more), with selectable columns and filters.
BoardA Kanban-style board. Tasks appear as cards in columns, grouped by status, assignee, or priority.
GanttA calendar timeline that draws each task as a bar from its real start date to its real due date, and lets you drag bars to reschedule. Tasks missing a start or due date don't get a bar — they're listed separately.
DocA documentation page. Coming soon — this option appears in the picker but is not yet available.

Where to find Views

  1. Open the Workspace menu in the left sidebar.
  2. Click Projects and open a project from the list.
  3. On the project page, look at the tab bar. Your views appear as tabs right after the Overview tab — each shows its type icon and name (for example, a list icon next to Project Tracker).
  4. Click a view tab to switch to it. The + button at the end of the view tabs adds a new view.

The view you are looking at is remembered, so returning to the project re-opens the same view.

Common Tasks

Add a new view

  1. On the project page, click the + button at the end of the view tabs (its tooltip reads Add view).
  2. In the Add View dialog:
    • View Name — a name is filled in for you based on the type you pick (for example, Board). You can change it. If that name is already used, a number is added automatically (Board 2).
    • View Type — click one of the four type cards: Project Tracker, Board, Gantt, or Doc. The selected card is highlighted. Each card shows a short description; the Doc card is marked Coming soon.
  3. Click Create View to finish. (If you selected the Doc type, the button reads Create Placeholder instead.)

The new view opens immediately as the active tab.

Tip

Press Enter while typing in the View Name field to create the view without reaching for the button.

Rename a view

  1. Right-click the view's tab to open its menu, then choose Rename. (You can also rename a view from its settings panel — see Customize a view.)
  2. The tab turns into an editable text box with the current name selected. Type the new name.
  3. Press Enter to save, or Esc to cancel. Clicking away from the box also saves the new name.

Duplicate a view

  1. Right-click the view's tab to open its menu.
  2. Choose Duplicate.

A copy is created with the same type and the same settings (grouping, filters, columns, and so on). The copy's name is the original name followed by (copy), and it opens as the active tab.

Reorder views

Drag a view tab left or right to change the order in which the views appear. The new order is saved for the project.

Delete a view

  1. Right-click the view's tab to open its menu.
  2. Choose Delete (shown in red).
Warning

A project must always keep at least one view, so Delete is unavailable when only a single view remains. If you delete the view you are currently looking at, ANTE moves you to the next remaining view; if it was the last one, you are returned to the Overview tab.

Who can rename, duplicate, or delete a view depends on its privacy setting — see Who can change a view.

Customize a view

Each view has its own settings panel for fine-tuning how it looks. Open it from within the view (the view renderer provides a settings/gear control), then adjust the options for that view type. Changes save automatically as you make them — there is no separate Save button.

The settings panel is titled Customize view and always starts with the view name at the top (editable here too). Below the name are toggles and navigation items that differ by view type.

List (Project Tracker) settings

  • Show empty statuses — keep groups that have no tasks visible.
  • Show closed tasks — include completed/closed tasks in the list.
  • Privacy — set who can see and edit the view (see Privacy).
  • Fields — choose which columns appear and the order they appear in. Drag fields to reorder, toggle each one on or off, search for a field, use Hide all to clear them, or Create field to add a custom field. The panel shows how many fields are currently shown.
  • Filter — build conditions so only matching tasks appear. Add one or more filter groups; within a group, set each condition's field (Status, Priority, Assignee, Due date, Title), an operator (Is, Is not, Is set, Is not set — plus Contains / Not contains for Title), and a value. Combine groups with AND / OR, add nested conditions, or Clear all. The panel shows how many filters are active.
  • Group — organize tasks into groups, up to three levels deep (Group by, then Then by, then Then by). Choose from Status, Priority, Assignee, Project, Due Date, Milestone, any dropdown custom field, or None.
  • Subtasks — choose whether subtasks appear Collapsed or Expanded.
Dragging between Project groups

When a list is grouped by Project, dragging a task card into a different project section opens the same move-confirmation dialog used in the task detail panel — it lists what will be reset (status, milestone, team role, cross-project dependencies, custom field values) before the move happens, instead of moving the task silently. See Moving a Task to Another Project.

Board settings

  • Show empty columns — keep columns that have no cards visible.
  • Show closed tasks — include completed/closed tasks on the board.
  • Privacy — set who can see and edit the view.
  • Group — choose how cards are organized into columns: Status, Priority, or Assignee.

Gantt settings

  • Show completed tasks — include finished tasks on the timeline.
  • Show actual progress — overlay a bar showing real progress.
  • Show forecast — overlay a forecast bar.
  • Privacy — set who can see and edit the view.
  • Group by — organize the chart into sections: Milestone (the default for new Gantt views), Assignee, Priority, or No grouping (a single flat list of bars).

Bars are positioned by each task's own start and due dates on a real calendar — there is no sort configuration for the Gantt view. A zoom control above the chart lets you widen or narrow the day columns. See Project Timeline for how to read the chart, drag bars to reschedule tasks, and find tasks that are missing dates (the same chart is used for both the cross-project Timeline and a project's Gantt tab).

To leave a sub-panel (such as Fields or Filter), use the back arrow at its top-left; the close (×) button closes the whole panel. Pressing Esc does the same — it steps back out of a sub-panel first, then closes the panel.

Privacy

Open Privacy in the view's settings panel to choose who can see and edit the view:

SettingMeaning
PrivateOnly you can see this view.
SharedEveryone can see it, but only you can edit it.
PublicEveryone can see and edit it.

Only the person who created a view can change its privacy. If you did not create the view, the Privacy options are shown as read-only.

Who can change a view

The view-tab menu (Rename / Duplicate / Delete) respects each view's privacy:

  • You can Rename and Delete a view if you created it, if it is Public, or if you have full access.
  • Anyone can Duplicate a view.
  • Delete also requires that more than one view exists (a project must keep at least one).

If you do not have permission to modify a view, the Rename and Delete options appear disabled in its menu.

💡 Note: Views are saved per project. Setting up a tracker, a board, and a timeline for one project does not affect any other project — each project has its own views and view settings.

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