Since the 1910s when the Gantt Chart was initially devised, it has undergone many changes. Different types of projects, relationships between the tasks, and possible unexpectedness that you should be prepared while managing the working process, have led to the creation of more and more new custom elements, tricks, and approaches. Download dhtmlxGantt – JavaScript …
From time to time during our professional career, we can stumble upon tools and techniques that seemingly perform the same work. This is also true for different types of charts. And if we can intuitively determine in what situation it’ll be better to prefer bar chart over the pie chart, sometimes differences do not seem …
Presenting data in visual form allows absorbing information better. Different types of sophisticated lists, schedules, or measurements can be more understandable if we turn them into the charts or infographics. But when we talk about the online applications that were developed to visualize the data in some graphic way, we may need something more than …
Today, we’ll talk about creating a Gantt chart application with ASP.NET and REST API on the server side. We will make use of ASP.NET MVC 5 web platform and Web API 2 Controller for REST API to create a Gantt application. To organize communication with the database, we will use the Entity Framework. We will …
The importance of automating the behavior of a project schedule increases manifold as the project’s complexity grows. By saying “complex”, we don’t necessarily mean the overall quantity of tasks that your project consists of. The relationships between these tasks are also significant. For example, in some cases, the dependent activity shouldn’t strictly start after its …
Following up our recent update of dhtmlxGantt and its new features, we’d like to provide you quite useful information about the necessity of accessibility support in your web applications. Adaptability and flexibility of modern technologies give an opportunity to eliminate or at least significantly reduce the disadvantages that various types of disabilities can cause. The …
Let’s begin the Autumn days with a new Gantt version 4.1 that brings us some cool and significant updates: Keyboard Navigation WAI-ARIA support High-contrast themes Updated Auto Scheduling and Critical Path calculations Performance improvements for worktime calculation and timescale rendering Now let’s describe each of them. Accessibility Starting from the version 4.1, dhtmlxGantt becomes more …
When developers are looking for an appropriate js gantt chart for their project management application, they have a list of “must-have” features that should be included. This article will be useful for developers who need to understand the necessity of the critical path calculation feature in their software, project managers and all the people who …
What if we told you that export to/import from MS Project is available in dhtmlxGantt? “Finally!” would be a pretty fair reaction of many users. So now you are able to import and export a Gantt Chart from MS Project as easy as to write an admiring comment to this blog post! Export to MS …
If you’re starting a new project in PHP, you’d probably won’t build it from scratch but will use some framework instead. Whether you use Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter or any other framework, each of them provides its own means for implementing data access layer. Having such resources at hand, you may want to step aside from …