Stacked Headers

27 Jan 201710 minutes to read

The stacked headers helps you to group the logical columns in Kanban. It can be shown by setting e-show-Stacked-Header as true and by defining e-stacked-header-rows.bind.

Adding Stacked header columns

To stack columns in stacked header, you need to define ej-kanban-column property in stackedHeaderColumns with field names of visible columns.

The following code example describes the above behavior.

  • HTML
  • <template>
        <div>
            <ej-kanban id="Kanban" e-data-source.bind="KanbanData" e-key-field="Status" e-fields.bind="Field" e-stacked-header-rows.bind="stackedHeaderRow">
                <ej-kanban-column e-header-text="Backlog" e-key="Open"></ej-kanban-column>
                <ej-kanban-column e-header-text="In Progress" e-key="InProgress"></ej-kanban-column>
                <ej-kanban-column e-header-text="Testing" e-key="Testing"></ej-kanban-column>
                <ej-kanban-column e-header-text="Done" e-key="Close"></ej-kanban-column>
            </ej-kanban>
        </div>
    </template>
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • export class Kanban {
        constructor() {
            this.KanbanData = [
               { Id: 1, Status: "Open", Summary: "Analyze the new requirements gathered from the customer.", Type: "Story", Priority: "Low", Tags: "Analyze,Customer", Estimate: 3.5, Assignee: "Nancy Davloio", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/1.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 2, Status: "InProgress", Summary: "Improve application performance", Type: "Improvement", Priority: "Normal", Tags: "Improvement", Estimate: 6, Assignee: "Andrew Fuller", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/2.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 3, Status: "Open", Summary: "Arrange a web meeting with the customer to get new requirements.", Type: "Others", Priority: "Critical", Tags: "Meeting", Estimate: 5.5, Assignee: "Janet Leverling", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/3.png", RankId: 2 },
               { Id: 4, Status: "InProgress", Summary: "Fix the issues reported in the IE browser.", Type: "Bug", Priority: "Release Breaker", Tags: "IE", Estimate: 2.5, Assignee: "Janet Leverling", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/3.png", RankId: 2 },
               { Id: 5, Status: "Testing", Summary: "Fix the issues reported by the customer.", Type: "Bug", Priority: "Low", Tags: "Customer", Estimate: "3.5", Assignee: "Steven walker", ImgUrl:"/images/kanban/5.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 6, Status: "Close", Summary: "Arrange a web meeting with the customer to get the login page requirements.", Type: "Others", Priority: "Low", Tags: "Meeting", Estimate: 2, Assignee: "Michael Suyama", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/6.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 7, Status: "Validate", Summary: "Validate new requirements", Type: "Improvement", Priority: "Low", Tags: "Validation", Estimate: 1.5, Assignee: "Robert King", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/7.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 8, Status: "Close", Summary: "Login page validation", Type: "Story", Priority: "Release Breaker", Tags: "Validation,Fix", Estimate: 2.5, Assignee: "Laura Callahan", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/8.png", RankId: 2 },
               { Id: 9, Status: "Testing", Summary: "Fix the issues reported in Safari browser.", Type: "Bug", Priority: "Release Breaker", Tags: "Fix,Safari", Estimate: 1.5, Assignee: "Nancy Davloio", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/1.png", RankId: 2 },
               { Id: 10, Status: "Close", Summary: "Test the application in the IE browser.", Type: "Story", Priority: "Low", Tags: "Testing,IE", Estimate: 5.5, Assignee: "Margaret hamilt", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/4.png", RankId: 3 },
               { Id: 11, Status: "Validate", Summary: "Validate the issues reported by the customer.", Type: "Story", Priority: "High", Tags: "Validation,Fix", Estimate: 1, Assignee: "Steven walker", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/5.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 12, Status: "Testing", Summary: "Check Login page validation.", Type: "Story", Priority: "Release Breaker", Tags: "Testing", Estimate: 0.5, Assignee: "Michael Suyama", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/6.png", RankId: 3 },
               { Id: 13, Status: "Open", Summary: "API improvements.", Type: "Improvement", Priority: "High", Tags: "Grid,API", Estimate: 3.5, Assignee: "Robert King", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/7.png", RankId: 3 },
               { Id: 14, Status: "InProgress", Summary: "Add responsive support to application", Type: "Epic", Priority: "Critical", Tags: "Responsive", Estimate: 6, Assignee: "Laura Callahan", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/8.png", RankId: 3 },
               { Id: 15, Status: "Open", Summary: "Show the retrieved data from the server in grid control.", Type: "Story", Priority: "High", Tags: "Database,SQL", Estimate: 5.5, Assignee: "Margaret hamilt", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/4.png", RankId: 4 },
               { Id: 16, Status: "InProgress", Summary: "Fix cannot open user’s default database SQL error.", Priority: "Critical", Type: "Bug", Tags: "Database,Sql2008", Estimate: 2.5, Assignee: "Janet Leverling", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/3.png", RankId: 4 },
               { Id: 17, Status: "Testing", Summary: "Fix the issues reported in data binding.", Type: "Story", Priority: "Normal", Tags: "Databinding", Estimate: "3.5", Assignee: "Janet Leverling", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/3.png", RankId: 4 },
               { Id: 18, Status: "Close", Summary: "Analyze SQL server 2008 connection.", Type: "Story", Priority: "Release Breaker", Tags: "Grid,Sql", Estimate: 2, Assignee: "Andrew Fuller", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/2.png", RankId: 4 },
               { Id: 19, Status: "Validate", Summary: "Validate databinding issues.", Type: "Story", Priority: "Low", Tags: "Validation", Estimate: 1.5, Assignee: "Margaret hamilt", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/4.png", RankId: 1 },
               { Id: 20, Status: "Close", Summary: "Analyze grid control.", Type: "Story", Priority: "High", Tags: "Analyze", Estimate: 2.5, Assignee: "Margaret hamilt", ImgUrl: "/images/kanban/4.png", RankId: 5 }];
            this.Field = { primaryKey: 'Id', content: 'Summary'};
            this.stackedHeaderRow = [{
                            stackedHeaderColumns: [{
                                headerText: "Unresolved",
                                column: "Backlog,In Progress"
                            }, {
                                headerText: "Resolved",
                                column: "Testing,Done"
                            }]
                        }];
        }
    }

    The following output is displayed as a result of the above code example.