The selected task's tabs

Summary: Below the task grid of a project, the selected task's details sit on a row of tabs. This page says what each tab holds and where to go to change it.

 

Applies to

Property	Value
Product	LYNX-X
Version	28.10.9877.0
Required permissions	Any user who can open the project
Last updated	2026-11-09
Owner	Support

 

Overview

Open a project and select a task in the grid. Below the grid, a bar shows the task's ID, its status, its name and three boxes, CC, CLC and RTS. Under the bar is a row of tabs. Until you select a tab, the panel shows only these names, also right after you add a task. Select General to see the task's main fields.

Select the status to change it: Not started, Started, Completed, Paused or Aborted. Not every task has every tab. A workpackage has an extra Workpackage tab, and a buffer row has no status and no Assignments or Taskmanagers tab. The number after a tab name, such as Assignments (3), counts what is on it.

Nothing you change on a tab is stored until you select Save at the top of the left rail.

 

Fields

General

Field	What it is
Duration	How long the task takes. A duration in brackets, such as [16 days], comes from the task's assignments.
Ettc	Estimated time to complete: the working time still needed, counted from tomorrow. See Updating a started task.
Task type	Normal, Milestone, Workpackage, Level of effort, Summary task, or one of the buffers. A workpackage holds cards. A level of effort task holds continuing coordination or management effort, often across a phase, that you do not want on the critical chain. See Choosing a task type (normal, milestone, level of effort, workpackage).
Priority	The task's own priority. See Why one task comes before another.
Auto complete	Lets the remaining time count down by itself. See Using auto-complete tasks.
Fixed duration	For work that takes a set time whatever CCPM does with the plan, such as procurement or sourcing material.
Show task in Tameflow?	Turns the task into a card you work on a TameFlow board. Without it, the task appears on a task board only. The task needs someone in a role on it, such as a task manager.
Critical chain task?, On current longest chain?, Ready to start?	Set by LYNX-X, not by you. They are the CC, CLC and RTS boxes on the bar. Ready to start means every task before it is complete.
Comment	A short remark about the task.

Staging

Field	What it is
Stage	The stage of the project this task belongs to. The list offers the stages of the project's stage plan; it is empty while the project has no stages.
Stage start, Stage stop, Stage duration	The dates and length of that stage.

The Staging tab is there only when staging is switched on in Space properties.

Dates

Field	What it is
Baseline	The task's start and stop when the project was first released.
Scheduled	The start and stop LYNX-X plans now. You cannot type here.
Actual	When the task really started and stopped. LYNX-X fills the start when the task is set to Started and saved, and the stop when it is set to Completed and saved. You can change either if it is not right.
Stop on start	Shown once the task has started: the finish date planned at the moment it started. Finishing after this date may use buffer.
Constraint, Deadline	Rules for where the task may sit in the plan. See Setting task constraints and deadlines.
MS constraint	Shown on tasks that lead to a milestone: the deadline of that milestone. It tells you which milestone date the task works towards. You cannot type here.

Custom fields

The fields your space adds to tasks. Which ones you see depends on your space. See Setting up custom fields.

Visual

Field	What it is
Bar fill color, Bar edge color, Bar start image, Bar stop image	The look of the task's bar in the Gantt chart.
Default bar label, Custom bar label	The text shown above the bar. Tick Use task description as label, or type your own.

Assignments and links

Tab	What it is
Assignments	The skills and resources the task needs. See Adding a skill or a task manager to a task.
Taskmanagers	Who reports progress on the task. See Adding a skill or a task manager to a task.
Predecessors, Successors	The tasks before and after this one. See Adding task dependencies.

On each of these tabs, Assign opens the Drag & drop to task panel on the right with the matching list.

Workpackage

Only on a workpackage. WP Size is the work reserved for the workpackage, Size from cards the work its cards hold, and Remaining size (open cards) the work on cards not yet done. When the cards hold more than the WP Size, a red message says so. See Adding a workpackage and cards via the Cards view.

 

Notes

• After you set a task to Started or Completed, select Save. Its actual date appears on the Dates tab once the project is saved.
• To see more of a tab, drag the line between the grid and the tabs upwards.

 

See also

• The project window
• Adding tasks to a project plan
• Updating a started task

 

Revision history

Version	Date	Author	Changes
1.0	2026-11-09	Support	New article.