Plan projects with Gantt charts

The Intelligence sheet features a best-in-class Gantt chart for Fabric that helps visualize, communicate, and track project progress. The fully customizable Gantt chart enables you to:

• Plan projects by breaking work into tasks with defined start and end dates.

• Identify task dependencies and anticipate potential delays.

• Assign resources to tasks and balance workloads across teams.

• Track key deliverables, approvals, and project milestones.

Important

This feature is in preview.

Sample data

The data used to plot the Gantt chart in this article is shown in the following table.

Configure Gantt charts

Follow these steps to build a Gantt chart:

1. Add the Gantt visual to the canvas.

2. Assign data to the Task, Start Date, End Date, and Progress fields.

3. Select the drill down icon to display the task breakdown.

1. Assign the field that captures dependencies to the Connect to bucket. You see connector lines rendered between tasks that have dependencies.

1. Select the Analytics option and Add new reference. Capture phases or project sprints with reference lines or reference bands.

2. Set Date(s) to first-of-date. Change the Name and Label to Project kick off.

3. Change the line format to a dashed line. Select Apply. The chart should look like the following image:

1. Select Gantt Options > Data colors to customize the colors, style, and border of the progress bars. You can also change the appearance of the connector lines.