Abstract: The Swimlane Timeline application for task data visualization utilizes the Microsoft Visio Application Programming Interface (API) to visualize user specified task data. The task data includes one or more of: task name, task outline number, task start date, and/or task finish date. The application solicits, interprets, and visualizes the data by mapping the user selected top-level outline number “n” as the parent task that defines the timeline and title, the “n.n” child tasks to swim lane rows, and the “n.n.n . . . ” lower level tasks to intervals and milestones within the swim lanes. Task analysis and reporting are enhanced with features including task drill-in, task filtering, and other user visualization preferences.

Abstract: A Swimlane Timeline Application for task data visualization utilizes a Microsoft Visio Application Programming Interface (API) to visualize task data. The task data includes one or more of: task name, task outline number, task start date, and/or task finish date. The application solicits, interprets, and visualizes the data by either mapping the user selected top-level outline number “n” as the parent task that defines the timeline and title, the “n.n” child tasks to swimlane rows, and the “n.n.n . . . ” lower level tasks to intervals and milestones within the swimlanes, or by utilizing the user selected group-by field to determine swimlanes, the user selected filter-by fields to determine timeline start and finish dates, and the user selected sort-by fields to determine task ordering. Task analysis and reporting are enhanced with features including task drill-in, task filter-by-value, task resource views, task date markers, swimlane timeline pagination, and other user visualization preferences.