Timeline Charts

Please can somebody throw some light on timeline charts?

Anapedia offers this.......

"Ensure the data items are date-formatted line items displayed across columns."

This seems a little vague, does anybody have an example or some guidleines please, as i have a project

model and would like to show a timeline chart (as a Gantt chart is not available)

thanks in advance

Accepted answers

Hi,

you need two line items: start date, end date, date formatted:

Timeline Chart setup.png

You can then create your line chart like this:

Timeline chart.png

Note that I have used the line item PR has value to be displayed "tooltips"

Hi,

you need two line items: start date, end date, date formatted:

Timeline Chart setup.png

You can then create your line chart like this:

Timeline chart.png

Note that I have used the line item PR has value to be displayed "tooltips"

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