Duration Units

1 Mar 20174 minutes to read

In Gantt, the tasks’ duration value can be measured by the following duration units,

• Day
• Hour
• Minute

Each task in the project can be defined with different duration units and the duration unit of a task can be defined by the following ways,

1. Using duration-unit-mapping property, to map the duration unit data source field.
2. Defining the duration unit value along with the duration field in the data source.

Mapping the Duration Unit field

The below code snippet explains the mapping of duration unit data source field to the Gantt control using the duration-unit-mapping property.

C#

List<DefaultData> list = new List<DefaultData>();
    list.Add(new DefaultData()
        {
            Id = 1,
            Name = "Design",
            StartDate = "02/10/2014",
            EndDate = "02/14/2014",
            Duration = 5,
            PercentDone = 60,
            DurationUnit = "day"
            Children = (new List<DefaultData>()
            //..

CSHTML

<ej-gantt id="ganttSample" datasource="ViewBag.datasource"
    duration-mapping="Duration"
    duration-unit-mapping="DurationUnit">
</ejGantt>

NOTE

1. The default value of the duration-unit property is Day.

Defining duration unit along with duration field

Duration units for the tasks can also be defined along with the duration values, the below code snippet explains the duration unit for a task along with duration value,

C#

List<DefaultData> list = new List<DefaultData>();
    list.Add(new DefaultData()
        {
            Id = 1,
            Name = "Design",
            StartDate = "02/10/2014",
            EndDate = "02/14/2014",
            Duration = "5days",
            PercentDone = 60,
            Children = (new List<DefaultData>()
            //..

CSHTML

<ej-gantt id="ganttSample" datasource="ViewBag.datasource"
    duration-mapping="Duration">
</ejGantt>

The below screen shot shows different duration unit support in Gantt control.

NOTE

1. The edit type of the duration column in Gantt is string, to support editing the duration field along with duration units.

Localizing the duration unit

We can localize the duration unit texts like below,

JAVASCRIPT

ej.Gantt.Locale["en-US"] = {
    //...
    durationUnitTexts: {
        days: "days",
        hours: "hours",
        minutes: "minutes",
        day: "day",
        hour: "hour",
        minute: "minute"
    },
    durationUnitEditText: {
        minute: ["m", "min", "minute", "minutes"],
        hour: ["h", "hr", "hour", "hours"],
        day: ["d", "dy", "day", "days"]
    }
};

NOTE

durationUnitTexts property is used to display the unit of duration in columns and taskbar tooltips.
durationUnitEditText property is used to save the edited duration unit value on editing action.