Introduction
The Calendar by ChartPad is a custom Power BI visual for reading date-based data the way people actually think about time — as days, weeks and months on a grid. Every row of your data becomes an event placed on the dates it covers, so bookings, deadlines, absences, campaigns, shifts and releases can be scanned at a glance, coloured by category, and clicked to cross-filter the rest of the report.
Getting started
This page takes you from an empty report to a working calendar. No prior experience with custom visuals is required.
Data fields
The Calendar is driven entirely by the fields you drag into its wells. This page covers every field — what it does, whether it's required, how many columns it accepts — and, just as importantly, exactly how your dates are read.
Views & navigation
The Calendar ships six views. You choose which one the report opens on, which ones people can switch to, and where the week starts; everything else is driven from the visual's own header.
Event display & styling
How events are drawn, how many of them a day shows, how they're coloured, and the two features that give the grid real-world context: public holidays and working hours.
Interactivity & cross-filtering
The Calendar is a first-class Power BI citizen: clicking an event filters the rest of the page, the legend filters by category, right-click opens Power BI's own menu, and everything is reachable from the keyboard.
Use cases
Worked examples of the shapes the Calendar is built for — the data behind each one, the fields to bind, and the settings worth changing. Each is a starting point, not a rule.
Formatting reference
Every setting in the Calendar's Format pane (the paint-roller icon), card by card, with its range and default. For task-based walkthroughs, follow the links at the end of each section.
Troubleshooting & FAQ
The problems report editors actually hit, and what to do about them.
Licensing & support
How licensing works
Changelog
A summary of the main releases of the ChartPad Calendar, with new features and bug fixes for each version. The most recent release is listed first.