Actually Useful Gannt Chart?

Good afternoon,
We are looking at the Resource Scheduling Board, and the Multi Resource Scheduling Board, but the jobs are hard to see on each day/resource. We would like to see a version of this chart that is legible. Has anyone achieved this either with the built-in features, or with your own customization?

This is what it looks like when I look at a couple of machines in a resource group for two months:

I want to be able to see at least the entire job number, and ideally the operation/assembly codes as well. I have to stretch the timeframe to zoom in all the way to the hours level if I want the job bars to be long enough to fit in the details. I would also have to zoom way in on the y axis so the height of the bars are big enough to fit the job number.

What do you think? Is this a problem that has been solved?
Thanks for your time!
Nate

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Is the Kinetic version any better for you?

Not really:


With Kinetic it is arguable way worse than classic. I can’t easily change the zoom scale (hours/days/months). I have to choose an existing option from the list. I can’t easily scroll back and forth to past or future dates. I have to specifically choose a date in the picker. I also can’t scale up the y axis enough to see all the details. It seems like it doesn’t show all the details anyway. Not nearly as much as the classic view shows.

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Job View is acutally not too bad:


Not too good either… If I could rearrange the order of the jobs on the display it would get closer to useful. Note, I don’t want to change the scheduled order of the jobs, just to see them in a sequence that makes sense. In the screenshot I have hundreds of jobs to scroll through. If I could see all the jobs in the order that they are starting it would make more sense.

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Not sure about Kinetic but you can increase the bar height in Classic

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I sense that an Idea should be made to make this app more user friendly, if there is not one created already

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So, I pulled my operation data into a PowerBI visualization. Its not too bad, but it lacks a lot of the control i would want. Has anyone customized a visualization in Power BI? I am using the Microsoft Gantt Chart visualization (3.0.12.0)

If I could add in the assembly level, this might do the trick. Maybe if I combine the Job number and assembly level into a concatenated field then I could use that as the “job” grouping. I would prefer to learn how to deeply customize the visualization if it is possible. Thanks for your time!

Here I used the Job and assembly level for grouping:

EDIT: The biggest problem I am having is that the visualization is not designed to show all the records. The little i in the top right shows that I have too many records and I have to filter them down. But I want to see all my data in this format. :thinking:

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I got the free Gantt Chart by xVis v3.2.1. This is great! I can customize just about everything and then some!


I am finding there is not any documentation about what each of the fields are used for when setting up the visualization. Anyway. This gantt chart is great!

EDIT: Never mind. I found the docs! Project Management - xViz Gantt Chart | Introduction | xViz

While I find this useful, it won’t keep that layout. Anytime you go into the detail, it resets itself back to the default row height.

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