Every Salesforce team hits the same wall: you need a Gantt chart, but AppExchange options are either expensive, clunky, or both. External tools mean context switching. So we built one from scratch — a native Lightning Web Component that runs entirely inside Salesforce with zero external dependencies.
What You Just Watched
The video above is a walkthrough of the Nimbus Gantt — the timeline and project visualization engine inside Delivery Hub. It ships as part of the managed package. No extra licenses. No iframe hacks. No JavaScript libraries loaded from CDNs.
5 Visualization Modes
The same data, five completely different views — all rendered on a single HTML canvas:
Gantt Timeline
Classic horizontal bar chart with zoom levels (day/week/month/quarter), drag-to-resize, dependency arrows, today line, and critical path.
Treemap
Rectangles sized by estimated hours, colored by stage. Instantly see where effort concentration is.
Bubble Chart
X-axis is timeline, Y-axis is entity/client, circle size is hours, color is stage. Overdue items get red rings.
Calendar Heatmap
GitHub-style grid. Each day colored by how many tasks are active. Green = busy. Gray = nothing scheduled.
Stage Flow
Bar chart showing task distribution across workflow stages with flow arrows. Percentage bar at bottom.
35-Step Automated Demo
Hit the Demo button and the Gantt runs a 2.5-minute presentation that cycles through every feature: all zoom levels, tree expand/collapse, dark mode, entity filtering, all 5 visualization modes, sonification (plays your project schedule as music), rapid zoom animation, and a full diagnostic report in the console.
We built this for client demos. You walk into a meeting, click one button, and the product sells itself while you talk.
Why Native Matters
- No external dependencies. No dhtmlx, no frappe-gantt, no vis-timeline. Pure LWC + Canvas API. Deploys as part of a managed package.
- Reads your data model. Pulls from Work Items, Dependencies, and Network Entities — the same objects your team already uses.
- Salesforce security model. Respects sharing rules, FLS, and CRUD. No data leaves the org.
- One-click install. Part of the Delivery Hub package. Install it, drop the component on a page, done.
What's Next
We're adding drag-to-reschedule, inline editing, and resource utilization overlays. The Gantt is one piece of Delivery Hub — a free, native Salesforce project management platform with 100+ features.
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