Gantt Chart
The Gantt Chart by ChartPad is a custom Power BI visual for turning project data into a clear, interactive schedule. Each task becomes a horizontal bar positioned on a timeline — its start, end, and duration are visible at a glance — and tasks can be nested into projects and sub-tasks, colored by category, tracked for progress, linked with dependency arrows, and marked with milestones.
It is designed for report authors who want a project-management-grade Gantt inside Power BI, without leaving the report or writing any code.
What it can do
- Task hierarchy — nest tasks up to 10 levels deep (project → task → sub-task) with expand/collapse and automatic summary bars.
- Timeline & zoom — switch between Days, Weeks, Months, Quarters, Years, or Automatic, or zoom freely with the mouse wheel and the date header; choose the first day of the week and shade weekends; scroll to Start, Today, or End on load.
- Progress tracking — show actual vs. planned progress, a progress percentage, and completion checkmarks.
- Milestones — plot up to 5 date columns per task using circles, diamonds, squares, triangles, or stars.
- Dependencies — draw arrows between tasks from a predecessor list.
- Owners — display who owns each task as initials in a colored circle.
- Task links — open up to 3 URLs per task from a link icon in the task list.
- Extra columns & tooltips — surface additional data next to the task list or on hover.
- Styling — control colors, bar sizes, labels, fonts, grid lines, a Today line, a legend, and a built-in dark mode.
- Accessible — full keyboard navigation and screen reader support, respects Power BI's high-contrast mode, and ships in 34 languages, with right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Hebrew.
The Gantt Chart is a Microsoft-certified Power BI visual: its code has been reviewed and tested to confirm it doesn't access any external services, so your data never leaves Power BI. Certified visuals are safe for enterprise use and support export to PowerPoint/PDF and email subscriptions. See Certified by Microsoft.
Anatomy of the chart
The visual is split into a task list on the left and a timeline on the right, joined by an optional band of extra columns and owner circles.
| Region | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Top bar | Search box and zoom controls (can be hidden). |
| Task list | The project → task → sub-task hierarchy, with expand/collapse, optional WBS row numbers, color swatches, and completion checkmarks. |
| Extra columns | Up to three additional data columns shown between the task list and the timeline. |
| Owner circles | Task owner shown as initials in a colored circle. |
| Timeline | A two-level date header and the task/summary bars, milestones, progress, dependency arrows, and the Today line. |
| Legend | Optional legend describing the color categories. |
How to read it
- A bar's horizontal position is its start date; its length is its duration (start → end).
- A thin summary bar spans all of a parent's children.
- A filled portion of a bar shows how complete the task is.
- A marker on or near a bar is a milestone (a key date).
- An arrow from one bar to another means the second task depends on the first.
- The vertical Today line marks the current date.
Supported languages
The visual's interface is fully translated into 34 languages and follows the language of the Power BI environment, including every Format pane setting, the field well names, the zoom and search controls, the tooltip labels and the landing page.
The full list
Arabic · Bulgarian · Chinese (Simplified) · Chinese (Traditional) · Croatian · Czech · Danish · Dutch · English · Estonian · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Hebrew · Hungarian · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Latvian · Lithuanian · Norwegian (Bokmål) · Polish · Portuguese (Brazil) · Portuguese (Portugal) · Romanian · Russian · Slovak · Slovenian · Spanish · Swedish · Turkish · Ukrainian · Vietnamese
In Arabic and Hebrew, the whole visual is mirrored right-to-left: the task list sits on the right and time runs from right to left. Task names and other text from your data keep their own direction.
Your own data — task names, owners, tooltip values — is shown exactly as it comes from your model, formatted with its model format string and the viewer's regional settings.
Before you start
The Gantt Chart is free to try — every feature works during evaluation. To use it in a published report without an on-visual license notice, each editor and viewer needs a license (a 30-day free trial is available). See Licensing & support for details.
Next steps
- Getting started — install the visual and build your first Gantt in five steps.
- Fields — learn what each data field does.
- Use cases — worked examples for roadmaps, schedules and status reports.
- Formatting reference — every setting, explained.
- Troubleshooting & FAQ — symptoms and fixes.