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title: Drawing a data date/progress line on charts
description: If your schedule contains progressed (Actual) dates, you may want to display the data date on a chart. This article provides steps to do so.
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February 15, 2024

# Drawing a data date/progress line on charts

## If your schedule contains progressed (Actual) dates, you may want to display the data date on a chart. This article provides steps to do so.

Turbo-Chart imports activities with actual dates from schedule sources. To assist with representing progress on a Chart, it is useful to draw a status date to indicate where earlier dates are actual, and later dates are forecast.

This can be done using the Highlighters feature of Turbo-Chart to either:

a) Draw a line at a specific data date, or

b) create a banded area up to the data date to indicate which parts of the schedule are completed actual start/finish activities.

To do this Select CHART\>HIGHILIGHTERS and create entries as shown below using the dates as required:

![DataDateProgress](https://learn.turbo-chart.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DataDateProgress.png?width=688&height=261&name=DataDateProgress.png)

 

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