Is my order still on schedule?

For the quick answer you need to prepare nothing: sidebar → Orders → click the order. The deadline situation sits at the very top of the order page.

The quick look: the coloured delivery date banner

Below the status buttons, Gantway compares the order's delivery date — the date you promised the customer — with the planned end, i.e. the end of the last scheduled position. The result appears as a coloured banner:

• Green ✓ — "X working days buffer until the delivery date", there is slack left before the promised date
• Amber ⏳ — at most 2 working days of slack; at exactly zero it reads "No buffer: planned end on the delivery date"
• Red ⚠ — "Planned end is X working days after the delivery date"

Gantway counts the working days of your company calendar, i.e. the working days from the working-time model minus public holidays and company holidays. If there is no working day between planned end and delivery date (for example, end on Friday, promise for Saturday), it reads "No buffer: there is no working day between planned end and delivery date"; an overrun without a working day in between simply reads "Planned end is after the delivery date".

Two more displays cost no preparation either: the "Tasks" tile on the order page (for example 3/7 with a percentage) and, in the list under Orders, the columns "Status", "Period" (start – end, otherwise "Not planned"), "Delivery date" (red if the planned end lies after it, yellow with at most 2 working days of buffer) and "Progress" with a bar and finished out of total work steps.

Overdue work steps are something else

In the "Tasks" tab some work steps carry a yellow warning triangle. Its tooltip reads: "This task has not been updated for over 2 working days."

The precise route: target vs. actual

If you want to see how far today's plan has drifted from the one originally agreed, you need the baseline — the frozen plan in the Gantt chart.

The catch: the baseline must have been created beforehand, ideally right after release. It cannot be applied retroactively, because Gantway only ever stores the state of the moment in which you create it. Without a baseline, the quick look above is what you get.

Several orders at once

On the Orders page, "my overdue orders" can be assembled from two filters:

1. Open "Filter by status" and tick several statuses: "Planned", "Released" and "In Progress" — everything that should still be running. "Completed" and "Cancelled" stay out.
2. In the second field of the date pair, "Planned end until", enter today's date. The first field, "Planned start from", stays empty.

What remains are the orders that should have been finished long ago and are not. This setting can be kept as a saved view and even made the default view, so the list opens that way next time.