Power BI Custom Visuals - As Timeline

In this module you will learn how to use the as Timeline visual. The as Timeline is a Gantt chart style visual that allows you to find gaps and overlaps from dates and times.

Module 109 – as Timeline

Downloads

• Power BI Custom Visual – as Timeline
• Dataset – Project Status.xlsx
• Completed Example – Module 109 – as Timeline.pbix

Key Takeaways

• This is a Gantt chart style visual.
• Great for planning and tracking equipment or people to find gaps and overlaps in data.

This as Timeline visual is tracking different tasks in a project and what stage they are in.

Under the Format paintbrush you will find there are several customizations that you can enable for this visual.

• Using the Display Setting section you can change several key settings, like the legend and size of each task on the visual.

• The Axis settings section allows you to customize the number to tick marks on the x-axis and the font size as well.

• Using the Category Colors section you can change the color used for each value in the Category field.

• Using the Behavior section you can modify several of the features that are interactive with the chart, like animation and how the chart reacts when you click on items.

• Using the Entity Separator you can add lines between each entity on the visual.

You can also adjust the background color, add a border around the visual and lock the aspect ratio under the Format section.