New Google Sheets Timeline Feature

Google has been releasing features this year as part of its Smart Canvas initiative. One that caught my eye recently was around a native timeline view for Google Spreadsheets data. Do you think it will be useful? What features would you like to see?

[@umairuchan3604]

Thank you. That was very helpful. Hoping to see the drag feature soon.

[@jkharmony]

Thanks for this! I plan to use it with my team starting this fall...

[@sir_john_hammond]

I agree on the ability to drag and resize. I was thinking of getting Aeon timeline but my workplace has this feature so I think I'll just use that for some personal projects as well...

[@danleeman]

Yes, it can definitely be useful for some lightweight projects. I'm interested to see what new feature developments we'll see in this space for 2023.

[@afanasatv]

Hey! Thanks, really helped me with the project running! Got a question: how to display the TODAY vertical axel?

[@kuraikaoru]

You are an absolute life saver. Thank you so much for explaining this!

[@user-qw1ny4oy6b]

Can these feature translate onto your calendar once they are set. i.e. Start date to End date and bench marks in between?

[@anabellag3883]

I just started using this and this new functionality is amazing for a better visualization, I am using specifically to show a roadmap

[@danleeman]

That's awesome! Excited to see where it goes from here

[@MuhammadSalman-he5mj]

Is it possible to create a multiple workstreams with each having multiple work packages, and visualise those?

[@nm7869]

Can you do hours or even minutes ? Any suggestions to daily timeline tools?

[@julieherczeg6466]

Please tell me they will add a calendar feature soon, where you can then add them directly to your calendar

[@YavuzAlavi]

Thank you for this 👍🏼💫

[@papitsunami464]

Do you know if you can print various views? It always just allow me to print quaterly view

[@sitiaminahbahari8691]

do you know how we can hide the "tasks" sheet? If i only want to show Timeline 1.

[@windujokomaryanto954]

Thank you

[@neodigitalskinclinic2207]

Hello Sir, I'm from India the Time line Feature is not showing in my google sheet.. How to get it ?

[@user-AnandanSD]

I see Today on the top right is disabled. Any idea why?

[@mgc332]

I dont have an Include Weekends toggle option

[@user-mw9cz4bx6u]

Hi, how to creat hourly?

[@SergiuLungu]

Task dependency would be nice.

[@novalee_events]

Thank you for posting this. Does Google Sheets also allow you to have only one 24-hour period (not multiple days)? Thereby enabling a timeline for specific times within one 24-hour day. Thank you again!

[@chrischihoonhwang6787]

I thought this was IT, the scheduler I've been waiting my entire life... and then learned it doesn't have the drag and resize functionality... what a let down. Hope they will add it sooner. Also was hoping for Google Table to have something like this as well. Keep on improving Google!

[@danleeman]

I hear ya! It's so close... And yet, not quite there

[@ngocnguyen1606]

I can not search the information on timeline sheet by using Ctrl + F

[@PolismenSerega]

How to make that?!!!!

[@margaret381]

This would be so awesome to have on free accounts!

[@VaskenBakalian]

This is amazing. But .... but .... SmartSuite🙂🙂...Airtable 🤔🙂 Timelines in Spreadsheets may be useful for a lot of use cases possibly, but I don't see how Spreadsheets can be used for project/task management where TimeLines are mostly used! SpreadSheets will stay forever and mainly be used for calculations and formula heavy use cases and never replace a relational database. Any other thoughts?

[@danleeman]

I'm with you, I think tools like SmartSuite/Airtable offer so much more functionality. Google Sheets isn't going to get there any time soon, nor do I expect that they want to compete in that space. But, I can think of many circumstances where it would be 5x easier for me to set up a quick Google sheet, simply because every person at the orgs I have worked for are already licensed for GSuite/MS Office, but usually only a subset of the company has been licensed for a no-code tool. Hoping that will change in the future!

[@MizunoIronMan]

Be great if they drilled it down to hours as well

[@danleeman]

Agreed!

[@nicolastobon3726]

is this working right know?

[@merlynpaul2091]

How can we add recurring tasks for every quarter ?

[@fazalhatta]

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