The whole plan on one page, and what decides the end date
Power BI has no Gantt chart. The free ones on AppSource draw bars and little else; the ones with dependencies and a critical path are sold as enterprise suites. So plans live in Excel or Project, and the report shows a table of dates.
Free to use, with no watermark and no time limit. Pro from $3 per viewer a year.
What it shows
Lanes draws each task as a bar on a time axis, grouped in lanes such as phases, teams or workstreams, with milestones as diamonds and a “Today” line. The axis fits the whole plan into the visual and picks days, weeks, months, quarters or years to suit, or it scrolls at the scale you choose, with the dates on top and the lane names on the left staying in place. A bar can show how much of the task is done, and a click on a lane name folds it into one summary bar.
- Dependency arrows (Pro): each task is joined to the tasks that wait for it.
- Critical path (Pro): the chain of tasks that decides the end date, drawn in orange.
- Planned dates (Pro): a thin bar under each task for the baseline, so slipping tasks stand out.
How to set it up
Add Lanes from AppSource or the .pbiviz file, then drag in:
- Task
- One row per task or milestone.
- Start and End
- The first and last day. A task without an End is a milestone. If your End is the day after the task, say so in Format › Layout.
- Lane
- Optional: the lane each task sits in, such as phase or team.
- Progress
- Optional: how much is done, 0 to 1 or 0 to 100.
- Depends onPro
- The tasks that must finish first, by name, separated by commas. Write SS, FF or SF after a name for start-to-start, finish-to-finish or start-to-finish links.
- Task id
- Optional: a unique id when task names repeat. Depends on can use it.
- Planned start and Planned endPro
- The baseline dates.
- Tooltips
- Optional: more measures to show on hover.
In the report
- Hover a task for its lane, dates, length in days and working days, and progress; with Pro also its planned dates, how many days it is late, what it depends on and its float.
- Click a task to filter the rest of the report, Ctrl+click for several, or click a folded lane to pick all its tasks.
- A selection in another visual dims the tasks that don’t match and keeps the whole plan in view.
- Light or dark background, the report’s theme colours (one per lane) and high-contrast mode.
- Tab to the lane names (Enter folds a lane) and into the tasks, move with the arrow keys, Enter to select, Escape to clear. Screen readers hear each task with its dates.
- The format pane, the axis and messages are in English and Norwegian.
Free and Pro
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Task bars in lanes, milestones, progress | ✓ | ✓ |
| Today line, or a line on a status date you choose | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time axis fitted to the visual, or scrolling by days, weeks, months, quarters or years | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fold lanes (saved in the report), task names next to bars or in a column | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tooltips, filtering, highlights from other visuals, keyboard, high contrast, light and dark | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dependency arrows: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish | — | ✓ |
| Critical path: the tasks that decide the end date, with float per task | — | ✓ |
| Planned dates: a baseline bar under each task, and how many days it is late | — | ✓ |
Free features always work, with no key and no tag. Pro features need a licence key for Lanes or Everything. Without a valid key, Lanes shows the free version, with no arrows, critical path or planned bars, with a short notice and a “Try Pro free” button. A paid key keeps Pro working for 7 days after it runs out, so a late renewal never breaks a report.
Your data stays in your report
Lanes makes no network calls and stores nothing outside the report. The licence key is checked inside the visual, so it also works offline, in Report Server and in locked-down tenants.
For Lanes alone. The entire suite is $90 per creator and $7.50 per viewer, or license the whole organisation.
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