VARCHART XGantt - Product Features
Easy and fast to integrate
The integration of VARCHART XGantt into your application is so easy that you can see your first Gantt chart within minutes on your screen. You can transfer the data to be displayed as a chart by the application programming interface (API) or by a CSV file to the VARCHART XGantt control. The data definition can be entered simply on a property page at design time; data fields can also be added or deleted at run time.
Bars in a Gantt Chart
Bars in a Gantt chart display activities over time and indicate their beginning and their end. But a bar can provide much more information than that: for example, an early start or an early end of an activity within a project. Or the degree of completion in a manufacturing process: How much is done, by how many percent is the product finished? VARCHART XGantt can display the degree of completion of an activity: Animated picture...
If bars overlap, the one behind becomes hidden. VARCHART XGantt can make it visible: This animated picture shows an overlap bar that indicates the hidden section. Also, semi-transparent colors in the bars allow hidden bars to become visible.
Different shapes and colors of bars in the Gantt chart are based on data. Therefore filters and maps can be applied to select bars and allocate graphical features. Animated picture...
VARCHART Gantt diagrams offer a variety of options to position annotations on bars. You can place them at the top, at the bottom, at the beginning or at the end of a bar, outside or inside of it. Even symbols and pictures can be added to an annotation. This animated picture demonstrates selected positions of annotations on a bar. Animated picture...
In a Gantt chart you can visualize dependencies between activities by links. This animated picture demonstrates a start-start link and a finish-start link and some of their customizing options.
The Time Scale in the Gantt Chart
You can customize a time scale by defining its resolution, add different time ribbons or add the weeks and months in a language of your choice.
A magnifier, a zoomed section in the time scale makes details visible in bars. Animated picture...
The Calendar Grid in a Gantt Chart
Visualise non-working intervals with VARCHART XGantt's powerful calendar grid. A different calendar can even be assigned to each group or even to each activity of a Gantt chart.
A calendar grid can be collapsed. You can view the chart with or without the grid by a single mouse click. This animated picture demonstrates collapsing and expanding the grid.
Grouped Layout in a Gantt Chart
Activities in a Gantt chart can be collected into groups by features that are defined in data fields. A group may have its own group title and summary bar. Groups and their activities can be sorted by criteria.
If desired, you can group bars in different levels; single groups can be collapsed and expanded. Summary bars automatically can adapt to the group when a group member is moved. Animated picture...
Hierarchy in a Gantt Chart
Use VARCHART XGantt's hierarchical layout option to display activities using a structured code field from your data. Levels are automatically indented, and can be expanded or collapsed by a simple click of the mouse. Animated picture...
Histogram
VARCHART XGantt allows to display workload and capacity by a histogram that automatically adapts to your ongoing planning situation. Quickly display current work load and available capacities. Overloads and subloads can be shown in several different ways. Different capacities can be graphically displayed all at once in several histograms, as shown below, or by stacked curves in different colors/patterns in the same histogram.
This animated picture shows work overload bars in a histogram. A capacity curve indicates the maximum workload of a system. Values above the curve are overload values. In the histogram, overload bars can be marked dynamically, for example by a hatching pattern or a different color. They immediately indicate a critical situation in a system.
Integrated PERT/CPM Scheduling
When dates are changed in activities, the integrated PERT/CPM scheduling allows to re-calculate all dates of depending activities in accordance to the relationships, durations and calendars assigned. Use the integrated PERT/CPM scheduling to re-calculate the early and late dates as well as the total and free floats. The scheduling can either be performed automatically after date modifications or it can be triggered on request. The scheduling function is part of the VARCHART XGantt module "Data Editing".
Resource Scheduling
The Resource Scheduling module of VARCHART XGantt supports the conception of interactive decision making. It unifies both, generating schedules automatically after pre-defined strategies and taking individual constraints into account. The latter can be edited interactively and graphically in the Gantt chart; there is no need to define complicated rules in advance. Recalculations continuously include the individual settings. If, for example, problems occur due to failures or breakdowns and changes become necessary, different scenarios can be tried and their impact on delivery dates can be tested. Complying with binding delivery dates requires knowledge on the workload of a resource already in preliminary stages.
Interactive decision making combines human skills and computer abilities to find the appropriate balance of customer fulfilment and of optimized and consistent workload for your resources. A fast perception of conflicts in a schedule enables the planning staff to handle situations flexibly, even those for which the system does not provide precise solutions.
There is a smooth transition from manual to automatic scheduling, depending on the requirements of the situation. It increases the stability of schedules and provides flexibility where required by the planning staff.
This animated picture shows different settings for the scheduling procedure: The job quantity is increased, which leads to an extension of the processing time, which can be counteracted by an increase of of the resource capacity.
This animated picture shows how the tasks behave when the planning strategies "As Soon As Possible" or, alternatively "Just In Time" apply with the capacity of the resources varying. The larger the capacity of the resources, the more jobs can be scheduled simultaneously. The lower the capacity of the resources, the more jobs are put in a chronological sequence.
This animated picture shows how two resources are assigned to a job (job 1 uses resource A and resource B). A breakdown of resource B causes the jobs to be re-scheduled.
Easy-To-Use Programming Interface
The programming interface holds a comprehensive number of properties, methods and events.
- Already at design time you can set many of the attributes by the property editor integrated in the control.
- All design features can be offered to the end user for modification. Your application can react to the interactions of the user by corresponding events.
Localizing VARCHART XGantt
VARCHART XGantt supports localizing your application in any language. All characters in the time scale, in the legend, in column titles of the table, in context menues, in tooltips or in dialogs that pop up at runtime can be adapted to the desired language via the API.
VARCHART XGantt supports Unicode. The characters of all languages can be used simultaneously and independently of the operating system that the application is run on.
Technical Requirements
- Operating system Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Development environment that supports the integration of ActiveX or .NET controls, e.g. Visual Basic/VBA, .NET, Visual C++, C#, Progress, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Centura or HTML using VBScript and others.
Services
Along with our products, we offer complemental services:
- Components include documentation, tutorial, online support
- Hotline support
- Maintenance agreement
- Training courses for users
- Functions requested by customers can be added
- Free trial version including 30 days of support
PDF File for Download
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