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justincooper88
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9 years ago

Gantt Chart visual - selecting the start date?

Hello, I currently have a Power BI project going in which I am using the Gantt chart visual.  We have a larger project list in which we have projects that started much earlier than others. My questi...
heyheyhey's avatar
heyheyhey
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9 years ago

Hi Simon,

 

Can I ask why that's the expected behaviour?

 

I would expect at a project-level, most people would want to use the Gantt visualisation to show a specific view (e.g. the whole of 2017).

 

This will often include projects that started in 2016 or earlier, but because we can only filter on 'Project Start Date', these projects would dissapear if I tried to give a view of 2017.

 

Thank you

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v-sihou-msft
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9 years ago

heyheyhey

 

As you said, each project has a start date, it's just a like "tag" associated with each record. When you filter on 'Project Start Date' only, it will just filter the underlying records which match the date range you specified in slicer. So if you select Year 2017, it will not take any records in Year 2016.

 

Regards,

  • justincooper88's avatar
    justincooper88
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    9 years ago

    Hi Simon,

    That is understood, thank you. I guess what I am looking for (and sounds like heyheyhey is as well) is to be able to setup a filter/choose a start date for the visual itself rather than filtering the data to fit into the static visual.

     

    Thanks,

    Justin

    • thomdargent's avatar
      thomdargent
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      8 years ago

      Hi all,

       

      Has there been a fix for this?

       

      I am using the Gantt viual and would have expected the same feature mentioned by justincooper88.

       

      Is it an expected behaviour for the visual to start "today" rather than at the earliest start date from the dataset?

       

      Thanks

      • Dmorse's avatar
        Dmorse
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        8 years ago

        Thom,

         

        I have the same issue as you -- the start date is not reflective of the date data I am pulling from SharePoint. The Start Date reflects the current day. So far, I think it has something to do with the dataset format/type. When I create a Gantt Visualization from the excel spreadsheet I am uploading to SharePoint, the Start Date is accurate. 

         

        I'm not entirely sure why this is. I'd appreciate assistance from the team. 

         

        SharePoint dataset Start Date looks like this in Power BI: 

        12/19/2017 5:00:00 AM
         

         

        Excel dataset looks like this:

        Tuesday, January 16, 2018