For JavaScript/HTML5 developers

Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5 Gantt charts - release 6.4

With planning boards, you often need a quick overview of jobs, tasks or resources. It helps to sort the entries in the table part. In the past releases of our Visual Scheduling Widget (short VSW SE),...

Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5 Gantt charts - release 6.3

We have added more functionality to our HTML5/JavaScript Gantt chart widgets. With the release of version 6.3 of our Visual Scheduling Widget (in short: VSW-SE) you can now intuitively drag&drop rows...

Update 2 of the Model for Resource Planning HTML5 Gantt Charts

I have already reported here several times about NETRONIC's Resource Planning Model which is essential for understanding the basic concepts of our products like our Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5...

Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5 Gantt charts - release 6.2

With version 6.2 of the Visual Scheduling Widget Standard Edition (short: VSW SE) we continue as usual the regular series of enhancements and improvements.

Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5 Gantt charts - release 6.1

With version 6.1 of the Visual Scheduling Widget Standard Edition (short: VSW SE) we released some enhancements and improvements that have been requested by our customers for some time but...

Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5 Gantt charts - release 6.0

With version 6.0 of the Visual Scheduling Widget Standard Edition (VSW SE for short), we are achieving a new level of user experience. In particular, the new grouping mechanism offers new...

Structuring Data in HTML5 Gantt Charts - Hierarchy vs Grouping

This blog post covers the options you have to structure your Gantt data in the Visual Scheduling Widget (VSW for short). We will discuss the two mechanisms – building hierarchies and grouping – that...

No (!) NETRONIC product impacted by the Log4J security issue

Over the weekend, IT security experts around the world sounded the alarm about the critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j library , pointing out the highest IT security risks. This blog post is to...

Release 5.3 of Visual Scheduling Widget for HTML5 Gantt charts

This release of our Visual Scheduling Widget (VSW SE) is also about how you can get more visual design options for a Gantt chart. For example, you can now freely design the dateline grids, create...

Visual Scheduling Widget 5.2 for HTML5 Gantt charts: new features

Those of you who follow our blogs about new features in our Visual Scheduling Widget (VSW) might wonder, why they now read about version 5.2 of the VSW, although we highlighted the new features of...

For .NET developers

Gantt chart Tip: How to visualize rest times with VARCHART XGantt

Whether an operation needs a rest time after processing and how long this will be is an important information for the production planner and hence should be visualized in his planning table. In the...

VARCHART XGantt .NET Best Practice: Swap Tasks Via Table Interactively

VARCHART XGantt is a powerful Gantt control (.NET and ActiveX edition) enabling you to create intelligent Gantt charts with little effort. Recently, one of our customers contacted us having a quite...

From Awful to Awesome Progress Visualization in Gantt Charts

First of all, I have to clarify that this blog post is not(!) about progress bars as we all know well from installing software or from downloading files. But this post is about the visualization of...

Three Steps to Add a Comfortable Sorting Option to Grouped Gantt Charts

Most people are used to a comfortable sorting option, like, e.g. in the Windows Explorer: Clicking the table header of a column will sort the files in in ascending or descending order, this being...

New in XGantt #2: Enhanced Snap Tools Ease Dragging in Gantt Control

Two weeks ago, I started my series of blogs about the new version (5.1) of VARCHART XGantt by describing the new graphical features of our Gantt chart control. The release notes of this new version...

New in XGantt #1: Striking Graphical Features for Vivid Gantt Charts

A new version (5.1) of VARCHART XGantt, our Gantt control for creating powerful Gantt charts, has been released recently. You can find the complete release notes here.  We’ve come up with so much new...

Developer Trick: Duration in Tooltip of .NET Gantt Chart Control

This blog post addresses software developers building visual scheduling applications or considering to develop a graphical planning board with our .NET Gantt chart control VARCHART XGantt. It shows...

Intelligent Gantt Chart Interactions Allow Context-Sensitive Decisions

Interactive Gantt charts are a proven and powerful tool to help organizations deal with time-related and resource-oriented planning and scheduling data. Being interactive, they enable users to...

Position Nodes in Gantt Charts With a Snap

Project and production planner appreciate working with interactive Gantt charts because they enable them to easily re-plan orders, tasks or resources by shifting them back and forth. However,...

Vertical Movement of Nodes in Gantt Charts With Multi-Level Groups

Multi-level groups are used in many Gantt charts. When, in such a chart, a node is to be dragged from one group to another one with the source group being quite far away from the target group, the...