Adding data to the visual - Profitbase/PowerBI-visuals-Gantt GitHub Wiki

You add data to the visual by dragging and dropping fields from the Power BI data model onto the different buckets.


Tasks and Hierarchy:

Add task field to display in the first column of the data grid. Adding multiple fields to this bucket will create a hierarchy of grouped tasks.


Start Date:

Field defining the start point of the bar showing in the chart. This field needs to be a date.

End Date:

Field defining the end point of the bar showing in the chart. Without this field, all tasks will just be visualized with a dot on the start date. This field needs to be a date.

Duration:

Alternative to End date. If your task start at the Start Date, and lasts for 2 weeks, then add the Duration field here, and specify Duration Unit as Weeks". Unit choices range from seconds to years.

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Progress:

Add a field here to display progress as part of the bars in the Chart. Field needs to be a value between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). image


Planned Start and End Date:

Add fields to these buckets to show when a task was planned to start and end (red bar). Fields needs to be dates

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Milestones:

Add fields to show milestones on tasks. Each task might have multiple milestone dates. If so, add multiple fields to this bucket. Milestones will show as a shape on a specific date. Shape can be set in the formatting options.

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Milestone details:

Fields added here will be used as either Milestone Label or Milestone ToolTip. Select how you want to display it in the format pane.

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Additional Columns:

Fields added here will be shown in the Data Grid next to the column showing Tasks and Hierarchy.


Primary Connect To:

Add fields here to display connector lines. If one task is dependent on another, it will show a line from on task to another. To set this up, the field used in Depend on needs to be a reference to the task it referees to.

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Primary Connect Type: Field will specify how the connector line is drawn. Field has to be text, and state one of these types:

StartStart, StartFinish, FinishStart, FinishFinish


Tooltip Fields:

Add the fields you want to display in the Tooltip when hovering over a task in the Chart. If left empty, the default information will show in the Tooltip.


Data Labels:

Add a field to display next to the tasks shown in the Chart. Possible to add multiple fields, that will be separated by a comma in the label.

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All buckets:

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