Gantt Chart

Project schedules that stay inside your report

Turn project data into an interactive schedule. Tasks become bars on a timeline, nested into projects and sub-tasks, tracked for progress, linked by dependencies and marked with milestones.

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Gantt Chart

Illustration of the visual's layout.

A Gantt chart is the standard project timeline: one bar per task, positioned by start date and sized by duration, with the task list down the left. The Gantt Chart for Power BI puts that schedule inside the report, beside the budget, resourcing and risk visuals it usually lives apart from, and it stays current as the data refreshes.

Feed it a task table with a Start date and an End date and you have a timeline. Add a Task ID and a Predecessor ID and the visual draws dependency arrows. Tasks can nest into projects, phases and sub-tasks, so the same chart serves as a work breakdown structure with a summary bar for each level. Progress, milestones, owners and extra columns are separate fields, so a simple roadmap and a full PMO schedule use the same visual.

It is Microsoft-certified, so the report exports to PowerPoint and PDF and works in email subscriptions.

Capabilities

  • Task hierarchy

    Nest tasks up to ten levels deep with expand and collapse, and automatic summary bars spanning their children.

  • Timeline and zoom

    Switch between Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year or Auto Fit, and scroll to Start, Today or End on load.

  • Progress tracking

    Show actual against planned progress, a completion percentage, and checkmarks on finished tasks.

  • Milestones

    Plot up to five date columns per task as circles, diamonds, squares, triangles or stars.

  • Dependencies

    Draw arrows between tasks from a predecessor list, so the critical path is visible at a glance.

  • Owners and extra columns

    Show task owners as initials in a coloured circle, with up to three extra data columns beside the task list.

Where it's used

  • PMO reporting and portfolio oversight
  • Construction and engineering programme schedules
  • Product and release roadmaps
  • Client delivery and professional services planning

Try it with sample data

A ready-made Power BI report with the visual set up, so you can see it working before binding your own data.

Download sample

Pricing & LicensingDepending on your needs

AppSource · Pay per user

Power BI Online

$259.90 per year

10 users at $25.99 per user, per year. Billed by Microsoft.

Direct license · Unlimited users (1 site)

Power BI Embedded and Report Server

 per year

 

What's the difference between AppSource and direct licensing?

AppSource licensing compared with direct licensing
AppSource licenseDirect license
Best forPower BI Service and DesktopReports at app.powerbi.com and in the mobile appsAll other environmentsReport Server, Embedded, Publish to web, the SharePoint Power BI web part, sovereign clouds, offline
PricingPer userPriced on each Marketplace listingPer visual or all-visuals bundleAnnual or 3-year term
BillingMicrosoftOn your existing Microsoft accountChartPadVia our payment partner Paddle
RenewalAutomaticManaged in the Microsoft 365 admin centerManual, every 1 or 3 yearsA report editor updates the visual with the fresh key
Who needs oneEvery editor and viewerAssigned by an admin in the Microsoft 365 admin centerNo per-user licensesOne key covers every editor and viewer for the licensed company; an editor pastes it into the visual's Format pane

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