Interactive Gantt timeline for Power BI: trade-promotion, project, production and R&D planning.
Promo Gantt Chart is a Power BI custom visual for high-level timeline planning. It was built for FMCG promotional and trade-promotion planning, and it works just as well for project and portfolio schedules, production and maintenance plans, and R&D/innovation roadmaps. One engine for any timeline: automatic stacking, fiscal calendars, color coding and cross-filtering, on your own data inside Power BI.
The field wells use FMCG names (Promo, Customer, Brand, ATL), but they map cleanly to any domain - a "Promo" is your project, work order, stage or campaign; a "Customer" lane is your programme, asset or channel.
Setup guide and per-domain field mapping: https://www.vibecode-studio.nl/support-powerbivisuals
The visual is free to use with basic features. A 14-day free trial of all Pro features is included automatically on first use. After the trial expires, the visual defaults back to the free version with limited features. To continue using Pro features, a paid Pro license is required. Pro licenses start at €199 per month per country (excl. VAT) for unlimited users, billed monthly or annually. Licenses can be purchased at https://www.vibecode-studio.nl/powerbivisuals/promo-gantt.
Free Version includes:
- Timeline visualization of items as horizontal bars (promotions, projects, work orders, stages)
- Week-based views with quarterly, monthly, and period headers
- Color coding by status or type (promotion status / mechanism, project status, work type, stage)
- Single category grouping (e.g., by Customer, Programme, Asset or Channel)
- Up to 100 data rows
- Today line and gridline overlays
Pro Version adds:
- Unlimited data rows
- Up to 3 category grouping levels with hierarchy mode
- Up to 3 color dimensions
- Ghost Mode - year-over-year comparison (last year's promotions, plan or roadmap)
- Second timeline track - an above-the-line/ATL overlay for media campaigns, or milestones, crews and workstreams in other domains
- Pattern Fills - 13 patterns for colorblind-friendly visualization
- Event Week overlays (holidays, gates, shutdown windows, stage gates)
- Legend as true filter - clicking a legend value hides non-matching rows entirely (not just dimmed) and cross-filters the rest of the report page; Ctrl-click for multi-select
- Fiscal calendar support (445, 454, 544 patterns)
- Advanced zoom (year, half-year, quarter, month)
- Cross-filter integration from row labels - click L1 or L2 row labels (Customer/Brand, Programme/Project, Asset/Activity...) to filter cards, charts, and slicers elsewhere on the page; Ctrl-click for multi-select
- Detection markers (M / O / D on bars) - multi-brand or cross-workstream, overlap or clash, and dimension-duplicate
- 5 languages (English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish)
- Email support
Available in both Free and Pro:
- Tooltip Date Format - Auto (use viewer's regional setting), or 5 explicit formats (DD-MM-YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, DD MMM YYYY, MMM DD YYYY)
- Sort Order for row axis and legend - Source order (honors your data model's "Sort by column" setting) or Alphabetical
Key features:
- One visual for many plans - trade promotions, project & portfolio schedules, production & maintenance, R&D roadmaps and content calendars
- No external network calls - all data stays in Power BI
- Works with Power BI Desktop, Service, and Embedded
- Optimized for large datasets (10,000+ rows)