Time-lines let you depict events with relative duration and elapsed time, and can be an effective way to tell a story that involves dates and text. This is extremely well-suited to building compelling infographics.

There are a wide variety of formatting options, including:

Can group events by week, month, quarter or year
Optionally specify end dates, thereby showing date ranges
Control colors through settings or data
Categorization of events
Interactive filtering
Display images alongside events
Format settings such as how to delimit grouped events
Many other size, shape, and layout settings (50+ settings available!)

The sample pbix file that can be downloaded here and on bi-champ.com provides a detailed look at how you can use this visual: we highly encourage reviewing it since it can answer many questions.

The visual is free to use in Power BI Desktop for single-user use. Shared use licensing is available through AppSource (per user in Power BI Service), and site licensing is available (cost effective for a large number of users, no per user licensing, works in all environments; see bi-champ.com for details). Support, feature requests and on-line help is available at bi-champ.com. Come sign up for a free account to get notifications about cool new controls, and important updates on existing controls.

NOTE: If you plan to use AppSource licensing, please visit our AppSource Purchase Guide at https://bi-champ.com/AppSourceGuide

Release Notes

Option to show one time-line per category (10+ settings support this) (1.1)
Option to show horizontally or vertically (1.1)
Minor fixes (1.2)
Add "minimum offset from line" setting (1.2)
Add "None" bullet style option (1.2)
Date range: show in tool-tips and allow single data point with a range (1.2)
Can set font size for captions (1.2)

The sample pbix file that can be downloaded here and on bi-champ.com provides a detailed look at how you can use this visual: we highly encourage reviewing it.

Check out time-line's "sister control": Number-lines by BI-Champ, available on AppSource and bi-champ.com.

Time-lines by BI-Champ

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