Timescale customization
15 Mar 201811 minutes to read
The Gantt contains built-in support to switch over various schedule modes. You can achieve this by defining a schedule header type for the Gantt.
Schedule header types
The Gantt contains the following built-in schedule header types:
- Hour – Minute
- Day – Hour
- Week – Day
- Month – Week
- Year – Month
The following code example illustrates how to change the schedule mode:
Week schedule mode
In the week schedule mode, the upper part of the schedule header displays the weeks, whereas the bottom half of the header displays the days. Refer to the following code example:
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Week,
weekHeaderFormat: "MMM dd , yyyy",
dayHeaderFormat: "ddd",
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>The following screenshot illustrates week schedule in the Gantt control:
Month schedule mode
In the week schedule mode, the upper part of the schedule header displays the months, whereas the bottom header of the schedule displays its corresponding weeks. Refer to the following code example:
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Month,
monthHeaderFormat: "MMM yyyy",
weekHeaderFormat: "M/dd",
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>The following screenshot illustrates month schedule in the Gantt control:
Year schedule mode
In the week schedule mode, the upper schedule header displays the years, whereas the bottom header displays its corresponding months. Refer to the following code example:
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Year,
yearHeaderFormat: "yyyy",
monthHeaderFormat: "MMM",
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>The following screenshot shows year schedule in the Gantt control:
Day schedule mode
In the week schedule mode, the upper part of the header displays the days, whereas the bottom schedule header displays its corresponding hours. Refer to the following code example:
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Day,
dayHeaderFormat: " dd,MM,yy ",
hourHeaderFormat: "HH",
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>The following screenshot illustrates day schedule in the Gantt control:
Hour schedule mode
An hour-minute schedule mode tracks the tasks in minutes scale. In this mode, the upper schedule header displays hour scale and the lower schedule header displays its corresponding minutes. The minute split-up in the lower schedule header can be defined by using the minutesPerInterval enumeration property. The enumeration values of the minutesPerInterval are:
- Auto
- oneMinute
- fiveMinutes
- fifteenMinutes
- thirtyMinutes
The value auto, automatically calculates the interval depending upon the e-schedulestartdate and e-scheduleenddate, whereas the other enumeration values splits up accordingly.
The hour schedule mode supports both the minute and hour duration units.
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-dateformat= "M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt"
e-durationunit= ej.Gantt.DurationUnit.Minute,
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Day,
dayHeaderFormat: " dd,MM,yy ",
hourHeaderFormat: "HH",
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>
Week start day customization
In Gantt, you can customize week start day by using the e-scheduleheadersettings.weekStartDay property.
By default, the weekStartDay will be assigned with 0 which specifies the start day of the week.
In week schedule mode, week starts with Sunday by default. But, you can customize the week start day by using the following code example:
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Week,
weekStartDay : 3
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>Rounding off timescale (schedule) start date
You can round off the schedule start date in the project by using the e-scheduleheadersettings.timescaleStartDateMode property. You can set the following values to the property:
- auto
- month
- week
- year
The value auto, automatically calculates the schedule header depending on the data source values, whereas the other enumeration values rounds off the schedule header accordingly. For instance, in year schedule, if you set “e-timescalestartdatemode” as month then the schedule header will start from the immediate month of the schedule instead of starting from beginning of the year.
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings"
>
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Year,
timescaleStartDateMode: ej.Gantt.TimescaleRoundMode.Month,
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = "scheduleHeaderSettings";
});
</script>
</body>
Customize automatic timescale update action
In Gantt, schedule timeline will be automatically updated when the tasks are edited beyond the schedule start date and end date range. This can be enabled/disabled by using scheduleHeaderSettings.updateTimescaleView property.
The following code snippets shows how to prevent the automatic timescale update in Gantt.
<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
<!--Add Gantt control here-->
<div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
//...
e-scheduleheadersettings="scheduleHeaderSettings">
</div>
<script>
var scheduleHeaderSettings= {
scheduleHeaderType: ej.Gantt.ScheduleHeaderType.Week,
updateTimescaleView : false
},
angular.module('listCtrl', ['ejangular'])
.controller('GanttCtrl', function($scope) {
//...
$scope.scheduleHeaderSettings = scheduleHeaderSettings;
});
</script>
</body>The following screenshot illustrates the behavior of updateTimescaleView property.
At Initial load
updateTimescaleView property as false
updateTimescaleView property as true