VARCHART JGantt - Product Features

Customize the sections of a Java Gantt chart to your needs.

Use multiple Gantt instances to let your users assign resources to tasks by simple drag&drop interactions. Synchronize both instances by the same timescale for simultaneous horizontal scrolling.

Gain visual clarity of your data by structuring the table of your Java Gantt chart hierarchically. Collect the elements of a group under one group title and repeat this for several grouping levels. Let your users collapse and expand groups according to what they have to focus on.

If a hierarchical structure code is available in your data, apply it to the table of your Gantt chart and make the different levels recognizable by indentation.

Configure the table appearance of your Java Gantt chart using different line formats for different levels an for different highlighting purposes, and display individual columns of your data. Beside several lines of text per item, the cells can contain different data-controlled symbols.

Visualize your data in a Java Gantt chart by using different graphical elements for:

Tasks
Create your individual styles how to represent your tasks in the Gantt graph, let them adapt graphically to your data by our filter and map objects. Use different bar styles, symbols and annotations simultaneously to display what is important to your users. Show your individual tooltip information when the mouse hovers above a task. Customize the drag interactions for your users to let them move a task vertically and horizontally or prevent them from doing so.

Switch back and forth between normal, overlapping and optimized layout of your tasks in the Gantt graph.

Links in a Java Gantt Chart
Show dependencies between your tasks as links in a layouted line routing in your Java Gantt chart. Indicate different link types graphically. Create, delete or modify links interactively by simple drag&drop interactions.

Calendar Data in a Java Gantt Chart
Visualize the availability of resources based on configurable calendar data. Display working and idle hours with a restrained and transparent graphical calendar grid. Assign an own calendar grid to each resource or resource group.

Line Grids and Date Lines
Beside calendar grids use one or more discrete line grids in your Java Gantt chart for different time intervals that correspond to your timescale and thus make a time grid omnipresent in the background of your Gantt graph.

Define date lines in your Gantt graph in order to emphasize important dates in your application like the start of production or others.

Summary Bars in a Java Gantt Chart
Generate summary bars for each grouping or hierarchical level of your Gantt layout. Their start and end dates are derived from the dates of the subordinated tasks. If the earliest date of the subordinated tasks is moved, the early date of the corresponding summary bar will be changed accordingly. Use the same flexible styles or symbols as for the tasks also to visualize the summary bars graphically.

Assemble an individual time scale in your Java Gantt chart from different time ribbons ranging from seconds to years, with special ribbons for shifts, calendar weeks, fiscal quarters or years. Combine Gregorian time ribbons with relative time ribbons for a particular company calendar. Localize month and weekday names in different languages.

Save space in your Gantt chart by collapsing idle times in the time scale according to a given calendar; e.g. collapse the night hours of an hourly scale, if your application needs to display only the time from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Let your users zoom in and out the time scale as needed or let them auto-scale it so that it fits into their window or fills the pages of a print-out.

Focus on a specific time span in detail without losing sight of past and future of this time span by dividing the timescale into sections of different resolution.

Extend your Gantt chart by a histogram section in order to show resource workloads or cost curves in your application. The histogram uses the same time scale as the Gantt graph and is fully synchronized with it. The curve data are either generated from the task data or defined independently by the API. So, if you move a bar in the Gantt graph, it can be reflected in the generated workload curve correspondingly. While the time scale serves as the X-axis, a configurable numerical scale represents the Y-axis.

Visualize the available capacities of your resources combined with the actual resource workload by different curves, and independently highlight overloads or shortfalls by different pattern and colors.

Select a page layout and preview it in the integrated print preview. Specify the Gantt chart sections to be repeated on each page and what the title should look like. Auto-scale the time scale in a way that the full page width is used up for all pages.