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Creating a Gantt Chart with Overlaying Shapes for Small Time Increments


Published: 16 Mar 2017
Last Modified Date: 20 Jul 2023

Question

How to create a Gantt Chart with shapes for a data that uses smaller increments.

Environment

Tableau Desktop

Answer

In Tableau, the Gantt bar mark uses days as the time unit by default. Therefore you will need to use a calculated field to convert the time period so that the data is represented in days. This example can be reviewed in the attached workbook, the sample data is derived from a manufacturing process.
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Step 1: Create a Calculated Field
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Step 2: Build the View
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Step 3: Add Shapes

Additional Information

To view the above steps in action, see the video below: 


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