🔸Milestones

Milestones in the Gantt time that help to establish mark the specific key points within the timeline.

Image 1: Milestones in Gantt Chart

Milestones serve multiple purposes, including tracking and monitoring progress, establishing goals and objectives, identifying potential delays, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Steps to Configure the Milestones:

GIF 1: Setting up Milestones

Type 1 – Multiple Milestone Date columns

1. Here's an example of a data with 3 columns for Milestone dates

Image 2: Data Structure for Milestone

1. Add the date columns to the Milestone data field

Image 3: Data field to configure Milestones.

1. As a result, the three milestones are plotted for every site (leaf level bars)

Image 4: Multiple Milestones on a bar

Type 2 - Date and Milestone Name columns

1. Here's an example of a data with a column for milestone dates and another for the milestone names.

Image 5: Data Structure with Milestone and Milestone Name

1. Add the data to the Milestone and Milestone Name data fields

Image 6: Data field to configure Milestones and Milestone Name

1. As a result, the different types of milestones are plotted on the Sites/bars

Image 7: The output of Milestone Name

Please refer to the documentation link below for details on milestone formatting, which allows you to customize the shape, color, and image of each milestone - Milestone Formatting

Type 3 - Milestones from Data

1. A Milestone from Data is created when the start date and end date are the same.

Image 8: Data Structure from Milestones from Data

1. To Display Milestone from Data, navigate to the Milestone tab of the Advanced Editor, turn on “Allow Milestone from Data.”

Image 9: Allow Milestone from Data

"Allow Milestone from Data" is visible only when the milestone field is populated with a milestone column

As a result, Milestones from data will appear in the Gantt chart as shown in the image below:

Image 10: Milestone from Data in the Gantt Chart

If the "Allow Milestone from Data" toggle is off, tasks where start = end date will be hidden.