Duration Units

13 Jun 20239 minutes to read

In Gantt, the task’s 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 DurationUnitMapping 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 DurationUnitMapping property.

@(Html.EJ().Gantt("ganttsample1")
    //..
    .DurationMapping("Duration")
    .DurationUnitMapping("DurationUnit")	  
    )
@(Html.EJ().ScriptManager())
public class GanttController : Controller
    {
        //
        // GET: /DurationUnits/
        public ActionResult GanttDurationUnits()
        {
            ViewBag.DataSource = GetData();
            return View();
        }

        public static List<GanttDuratioUnitData> GetData()
        {
            List<GanttDuratioUnitData> list = new List<GanttDuratioUnitData>();
            list.Add(new GanttDurationUnitData()
            {
                TaskID = 1,
                TaskName = "Parent Task 1",
                StartDate = "02/27/2017",
                Duration = "5day",
                Progress = 40,
                Children = (new List<GanttDurationUnitData>()
                    {
                        new GanttDurationUnitData()
                        {
                            TaskID = 2,
                            TaskName = "Child Task 1",
                            StartDate = "02/27/2017",                            
                            Duration = "5d",
                            Progress = 40
                        },
                        new GanttDurationUnitData()
                        {
                            TaskID = 3,
                            TaskName = "Child Task 2",
                            StartDate = "02/27/2017",
                            Duration = "40",
                            DurationUnit="hour",
                            Progress = 40,
                        },
                        new GanttDurationUnitData()
                        {
                            TaskID = 4,
                            TaskName = "Child Task 3",
                            StartDate = "02/27/2017",
                            Duration = "2400",
                            DurationUnit = "minute",
                            Progress = 40
                        }
                    })
					//..
            });
            return list;
        }

        public class GanttDurationUnitData
        {
            //..
            public string Duration { get; set; }
            public string DurationUnit { get; set; }
        }
    }

NOTE

  1. The default value of the DurationUnit property is GanttDurationUnit.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,

  • CSHTML
    • @(Html.EJ().Gantt("ganttsample1")
    //..
    .DurationMapping("Duration")	  
    )
@(Html.EJ().ScriptManager())

    The below sample explains the task’s duration unit in Gantt.

    Duration Unit

    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,

  • CSHTML
    • 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.

    Click here to view the online demo sample for mapping the duration units.