In AppSource reviewBFVZ PowerGantt Lite · Power BI custom visual

A clean, fast Gantt chart for Power BI.

Bind Task Name, Start and Finish and the chart draws. Add a Group field for phases with summary bars, Task IDs and Predecessors for dependency lines and a computed critical path, and baseline dates for slip and gain shading. The same look and the same task table as BFVZ PowerGantt, at a price every project team can carry.

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Creator, per user per month · Viewer $2

Schedule health checks, DCMA and GAO aligned

30,000

Rows per visual

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite on a 100-task ERP implementation: phases as groups with summary bars, category colors with a legend, baseline bars, the critical path in red, milestones and the Data Date line

The visual

Everything a project Gantt needs, with nothing to configure first

One row per task is enough to start. Each optional field you bind turns on another layer: grouping, dependencies and the critical path, baselines, milestones, category colors, extra tooltip fields.

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite: the task tooltip on a critical task, with actual and planned dates, progress, total float, duration, start and finish variance, predecessors and the bound tooltip fields Owner, Budget and Status

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite: the Schedule Health Check overlay with a DCMA high-float warning and two GAO sequencing notes, each with the number of affected tasks

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite in the light theme: two phases collapsed to summary bars, the build phase open with baseline bars and the red critical chain

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite: all eight phases collapsed to summary bars, with the group tooltip showing task count, average progress, milestones and tasks on the critical path

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite: the full schedule at Quarter zoom with category colors, baselines, the critical path and the Data Date

Task bars with progress, one optional Group level with summary bars, and expand or collapse by group or all at once.
Baseline bars with slip and gain shading, plus start, finish and duration variance in the tooltip.
Dependency lines for FS, SS, FF and SF links with lag, parsed from a predecessor string, and a computed critical path with an optional bridged critical chain.
Milestones from a Milestone Type field or from zero-duration tasks.
Data Date line (defaults to today), weekend shading and grid lines.
Zoom from Year to Week with Ctrl + scroll, drag to pan, and a resizable task grid with Start, Finish, Duration and % columns.
Category colors with a legend, up to eight of your own colors, and any number of extra fields in the tooltip.
Schedule Health Check: 13 DCMA and GAO aligned checks, each reported with the number of tasks it affects.
Light and dark themes, nine format cards, every type size in points from 10 up.
Up to 30,000 rows; no external connections, so nothing leaves your tenant.

See the pricing Download the sample schedule → What the visual reads, and what it never sends →

Setup

Up and running in three steps

No model changes, no relationships to build. One table with a row per task, bound to the data roles below.

One row per task
Task Name, Start, Finish

Map the fields
Group, IDs and predecessors, baselines

Read the chart
critical path, slips, health check

Data role	Required?	What it turns on
Task Name, Start Date, Finish Date	Required	The task bars and the grid; this is all the visual needs to draw.
Group	Optional	One grouping level (phase, workstream, team) with summary bars and expand or collapse.
Task ID + Predecessors	Optional	Dependency lines and the computed critical path. Predecessors as `T-001, T-002SS+5, T-003FF-2`; FS is assumed.
Baseline Start, Baseline Finish	Optional	Baseline bars, slip and gain shading, start and finish variance in the tooltip.
% Complete	Optional	Progress fill on each bar (0 to 100; set the field to Don’t summarize).
Milestone Type	Optional	Any non-blank value marks a milestone; zero-duration tasks are milestones automatically.
Category	Optional	Colors the bars by value and adds a legend; up to eight values get their own color picker.
Tooltip Fields	Optional	Any number of extra fields, shown at the bottom of the task tooltip with their field names.

Coming from Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project? The free BFVZ DataBridge templates turn a P6 XER or a Project XML export into these columns; Lite reads the same task table as BFVZ PowerGantt, so a DataBridge output maps straight in.

Which one?

PowerGantt Lite or BFVZ PowerGantt

Both read the same task table and draw the same chart. Lite is the project view; BFVZ PowerGantt adds the program depth. Start with Lite and move up by adding the full visual and binding the same fields.

Capability	BFVZ PowerGantt Lite	BFVZ PowerGantt
Grouping	One Group level with summary bars	N-level WBS
Critical path	Computed from the logic, with the Bridge Critical Chain option	Computed from the logic, program-level across projects, near-critical flagged at your float threshold
Relationships	FS, SS, FF, SF with lags and leads	FS, SS, FF, SF with lags and leads
Baselines, milestones, Data Date	Yes	Yes
Bar coloring	Category colors with a legend, up to eight of your own colors	Conditional RAG status rules and discipline colors
Schedule Health Check	13 checks, with the number of affected tasks per check	Every affected task listed with its Task ID and the finding
Look-ahead window (2W, 4W, 6W)	Preview only; Lite always shows the whole schedule	Yes
Reference lines and bands	No	Outage windows, permit dates, seasonal constraints
Resources	No	Resource column and overallocation marked on the bars
Data grid columns	Task Name, Start, Finish, Duration, %	Plus float, resource and your own columns
Rows per visual	30,000	30,000
Themes	Light and dark	Light and dark
Price per user per month	Creator $6 · Viewer $2	Creator $12 · Viewer $5

Lite fits a project team that wants a schedule on a report page without a long setup. BFVZ PowerGantt is for the PMO that rolls projects up to programs and needs the program-level critical path, resources, reference lines, RAG rules, look-ahead filtering or the Health Check task lists. See BFVZ PowerGantt →

Pricing

Per user, through Microsoft AppSource.
Priced for every project team.

Schedulers and report authors need a Creator license; everyone who reads the report needs a Viewer license. Every license starts with a 30-day trial of the full product, and each BFVZ visual is licensed independently.

Creator

$6/user/mo

or $60/year, two months free

Full edit access for schedulers, PM leads and report authors. Build, configure and publish.

Up to 30,000 rows per visual
Every data role and all nine format cards
Dependencies, critical path and baselines
Schedule Health Check
Light and dark themes
Support at support@bfvztech.com

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Viewer

$2/user/mo

or $20/year, two months free

Full read-only access for executives, stakeholders and field leads. Interact with the report without editing the visual.

The full chart: zoom, pan, expand and collapse
Tooltips and the Schedule Health Check
Up to 30,000 rows per visual
The format pane is reserved for Creators

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Licensed through the Power BI licensing API 30-day trial, cancel anytime Sample mode in Power BI Desktop: 100 rows, no license needed

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite has been submitted to Microsoft AppSource and is in review. Until the listing is live, the buttons above send a note to support@bfvztech.com and you will hear from us the day it publishes. In Power BI Desktop without a license the visual runs in Sample mode: the first 100 rows with a watermark, every feature available to evaluate.

Resources

Guide, sample data and the data bridges

PowerGantt Lite Quick Start Guide

Get the visual drawing your schedule in under 10 minutes: the data you need, adding the visual, the data roles, navigation, the nine format cards and how to read the chart.

.pdf PowerGantt Lite 3 pages

Download

PowerGantt Lite Sample Schedule

A 100-task ERP implementation in eight phases, with typed relationships and lags, baselines, progress, milestones, owners and budgets: the schedule in the screenshots on this page. Includes a field-mapping sheet and a dependency legend.

.xlsx 100 tasks 20 KB

Download

BFVZ DataBridge for P6 and Microsoft Project

Free Power Query templates that turn a Primavera P6 XER or a Microsoft Project XML export into the column layout PowerGantt Lite reads. No add-ins, no services, nothing leaves your machine.

.pbit Free Primavera P6 + Microsoft Project

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Questions

Which should I pick, Lite or BFVZ PowerGantt?

Pick Lite if one grouping level and a per-schedule critical path cover your reporting. Pick BFVZ PowerGantt if you need WBS levels, a program-level critical path across projects, resources, reference lines and bands, RAG rules, look-ahead filtering or the Health Check task lists. Both read the same task table, so moving up later means adding the full visual to the page and binding the same fields.

Does it read Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project schedules?

Yes. Lite reads any table with one row per task, from Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Excel, Planner, Jira, Smartsheet or a database. The free DataBridge templates convert a P6 XER or a Project XML export into ready-to-map columns in Power Query, with no manual preparation.

Does my schedule leave my tenant?

No. The visual renders inside Power BI and declares no web access; it makes no external calls, and the only service it talks to is Power BI’s own licensing API, to check the viewer’s license. It keeps a small license-status record in the browser for 14 days so the check is not repeated on every open. The PowerGantt Lite privacy policy lists exactly what it reads and keeps.

What is Sample mode?

In Power BI Desktop without a license, the visual draws the first 100 rows of the data with a watermark, with every feature working, so you can evaluate it on your own schedule before buying. A Creator or Viewer license, or the 30-day trial, lifts the cap to 30,000 rows and removes the watermark.

How does licensing work?

Per user, through Microsoft AppSource, with monthly or annual billing. Authors who build and format the visual need a Creator license; people who read the report need a Viewer license. Every license starts with a 30-day trial, and each BFVZ visual is licensed on its own, so a Lite license does not cover BFVZ PowerGantt or BFVZ POWERHealth.

Is the look-ahead filter in Lite?

The 2W, 4W and 6W buttons and the Dim toggle are in the Lite chart as a preview of BFVZ PowerGantt; Lite always shows the whole schedule. The same goes for the task lists behind the Health Check: Lite reports which checks failed and how many tasks each affects, and BFVZ PowerGantt lists the tasks.

Get started

BFVZ PowerGantt Lite is on its way to Microsoft AppSource

The listing is in Microsoft’s review. Leave your address and you will hear from us the day it publishes; meanwhile the Quick Start Guide and the sample schedule are ready to download. Questions: support@bfvztech.com.

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