Work

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Work is the total hours taken by a labor to complete a task; this value depends on the number of resources assigned to the task and the duration of the task. Work can be measured in hours, days, and minutes; It is measured in ‘hours’ scale by default. You can change this by using the workUnit property.

The following code snippet explains how to change the workUnit property in Gantt:

JAVASCRIPT

<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
   <!--Add  Gantt control here-->    
   <div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
      //...
      e-workunit=ej.Gantt.WorkUnit.Minute 
      >
   </div>
</body>

Note:

Work will be displayed as 0 hours if there is no resource assigned to the task.
A resource will work 8 hours a day on the assigned task.

Task type

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The work, duration, and resource unit fields of a task depends upon each other values and will change automatically while editing any one of these fields. You can also set these field’s values as constant by using the taskType property. The following values can be set to the type property:

Fixed duration: Duration task field will remain constant while updating the resource unit or work field.

Fixed work: Work field will remain constant while updating resource unit or duration fields.

Fixed unit: Resource units will remain constant while updating duration or work field.

The following code snippet explains how to set the taskType property in Gantt:

JAVASCRIPT

<body ng-controller="GanttCtrl">
   <!--Add  Gantt control here-->    
   <div id="GanttContainer" ej-gantt
      //...
      e-tasktype=ej.Gantt.TaskType.FixedWork
      >
   </div>
</body>

Following table explains how the work, duration, and resource unit fields will be updated when changing any of the fields:

Task Type	Changes in Duration	Changes in Work	Changes in Resource units
Fixed Duration	Work field updates	Resource unit updates	Work field updates
Fixed Work	Resource unit updatesNote: For manually scheduled task work will update	Duration field updatesNote: For manually scheduled task resource unit updates	Duration will updateNote: For manually scheduled task work field updates
Fixed Unit	Work field updates	Duration field updatesNote: For manually scheduled task resource unit updates	Duration will updateNote: For manually scheduled task work field updates

Note:

Fixed Unit is the default taskType in Gantt.
The above calculations are not applicable for Milestones.

Effort driven tasks

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The effortDriven field is used to define whether the total labor hours or the work need to split or to be extended among the resources when adding or removing a resource to a task.

Note:

The effort driven field is effective only when adding or removing a resource in the task.

The following table illustrates the effects of effort driven field with taskType property:

Task Type	Effort driven tasks	Task without effort driven
Fixed Duration	Resource unit updates	Work field updates
Fixed Work	Duration field updatesNote: For Fixed Work effort driven is always true.In this task type the effort driven field is non-editable	Not applicable
Fixed Unit	Duration field updates	Work field updates

Notes:

The above calculations will not be considered for milestones.
For manually scheduled task, the effort driven will not be considered while adding or removing resources.
For manually scheduled task, the taskType and effortDriven fields are non-editable.
When assigning a first resource for the task, the effortDriven and taskType fields are not considered and the work field alone will be calculated.

The following screenshot depicts the work, task type, and effort driven fields in the Gantt: