# Project Management - xViz Gantt Chart | Introduction

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### Overview

**Project management chart to monitor tasks, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, resources and more!**

Visualize enterprise project data with ease! Use advanced enterprise level capabilities to show how project breaks down into tasks, subtasks, and track project milestones and more.

[xViz Gantt Chart](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-gb/product/power-bi-visuals/WA200000891?tab=Overview\&exp=ubp8) is a modern project planning tool for Power BI which helps to articulate, communicate, and monitor the progress of projects. Business users leverage the unique enterprise features such as alerting, milestone configuration, task dependencies, creating connector lines, and live editing on the fly to empower project reporting in their organization with Power BI.

### **Key Features:**

* **2 Modes** - Regular Gantt for project management and Gantt Resource for tailored view of resource planning, allocation, and review.
  * **Expand/Collapse** - Quickly expand/ collapse hierarchy data with a single click
  * **Extra Columns** - Add multiple categories and columns, format visual title, and customize column width. Read more - [#additional-columns](https://docs.xviz.com/hierarchy-and-additional-columns#additional-columns "mention")
* **Milestone Configuration** - Specify important points along the progress of task in Gantt using milestones with customizable icon shape/color. Read more here - [milestones](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/milestones "mention")
* **Display Connector Lines** - Define customizable connector lines to visualize dependencies. Read more here - [connectors](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/connectors "mention")
* **Progress** - Display progress for the tasks in the chart as bar fill. Read more - [tracking-the-progress](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/progress/tracking-the-progress "mention")
* **Embed External URL** - single click action navigation to external webpages from your dashboards/reports. Read more - [configure-external-urls](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/other-features/configure-external-urls "mention")
* **Advanced Alerting techniques -**
  * Data Grid: Conditionally formatted data grids to draw attention to priority tasks
  * Status Flag: Add customized status flag to determine the status of the task
  * Progress Bar: Color code the bar to notify the task progress and to drive attention\
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    Read more here - [alerting-techniques](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/alerting-techniques "mention")
* **Advanced Analytics** - Display reference lines, reference bands highlighting key project metrics in the visual. Read more here - [reference-lines-and-reference-range](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/reference-lines-and-reference-range "mention")
* **Runtime Zoom** - Interactive zoom in and out of timeline view, customize default zoom range. Read more here - [timeline-configurations](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/timeline-configurations "mention")
* **Display Overall Totals** - Add an overall total row on the provided data. Read more here - [display-totals](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/other-features/display-totals "mention")
* **Summary Table** - gain a tabular overview to slice and filter your data

### Additional Configurations:

* **Coloring Options** - Color various elements on the Gantt Chart plot area. Read more here - [data-colors](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/other-features/data-colors "mention")
* **Bullet/ Bar View** - Progress Bars can be toggled between bullet and bar views for advanced insights. Read more here - [progress-bar-display](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/progress/progress-bar-display "mention")
* **Ragged Hierarchy** - View unbalanced hierarchy with ease by hiding blank categories. Read more here - [hide-blanks](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/other-features/hide-blanks "mention")
* **Date Formats** - Customize the date format for tooltips as per your choice. Read more - [date-formats](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/other-features/date-formats "mention")
* **Fiscal Year Support** - customize your timeline based on your company's fiscal year. Read more here - [fiscal-year-support](https://docs.xviz.com/project-management/timeline-configurations/fiscal-year-support "mention")

### How to try the xViz Gantt Chart?

Download the sample report file (.pbix) or install the visual in your reports from&#x20;

[Microsoft AppSource | xViz Gantt Chart](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-gb/product/power-bi-visuals/WA200000891?tab=Overview\&exp=ubp8) (Microsoft Certified)