Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

[kingcarol]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Perfect, Steve!

[WindForce]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Hi Steve
Are those charts editable, or at least do they catch events?

Jaime

[Kerry Jackson]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Steve, this is great. Looking forward to your finish product. Thanks

[mihai]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Hi Steve
Are those charts editable, or at least do they catch events?

Jaime

It may be that Mihai:)

For those that may be intereseted we have added the xbasic to supported programming list, so the exhelper can show the xbasic language, as explianed here:

http://www.exontrol.com/exhelper.jsp

Please ignore the message those who are not interested, and sorry I miss the point that you were looking fro some web based control. I was thinking that it is not able to be used, but it is at least if using the /COM version.

Regards,
TheOne.

[Steve Workings]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Jaime - FusionCharts don't have facility to act as input controls. You can do some nice stuff with hyperlinks, such as drilldowns, etc.

Based on feedback from a couple people, I've added a fair bit to this genie. The attached screenshot of the setup dialog shows what's available so far.

[MichaelCarroll]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

This looks entirely plausible as an a5 integration.

http://www.jsgantt.com/

[WendyWelton]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Lookin' good, Steve! I like it. Whenever I decide to start working on Schedules, I'm going to need Gantt chart with months like you show, but am also going to need one that shows the days of the month (similar to one at BuildTools.com). I'll be doing charts with a Job as my session variable, but will also be trying to do ones with a Trade Contractor as the session variable and tasks that are a combo of a job and a task (because trades might be working on several jobs for a builder and would be nice to send a Gantt chart to the trade). Looks like I'd probably be able to accomplish that with my grids and your tools! I'm excited, but not ready to begin working on that feature just yet... but it's coming and I'll definitely be looking at yours. You rock!

Me too.

Carol - are your builders on their own domain name? Or are they a subdomain? Just a log in?

[kingcarol]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Wendy, I'll send you a private message.

[WendyWelton]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Steve,

Carol and I talked - we pretty much need exactly the same thing. (We may even talk about double teaming on our development efforts in general). Anyway - I also need much more long term planning than the calendar provides, with task dependencies etc. When I first looked at Fusion Charts it looked like the price put it out of my reach - http://www.fusioncharts.com/license/ , but now from the link in your post (thank you for that!) I'm seeing the free one - http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/Comparison.asp. I don't think what I'll need is especially elaborate, but it's hard to tell from the chart whether the free one would have any glaring shortcomings. What have you seen as you worked with it? If I'd be trying to do construction schedules, where when an early task runs over, the later tasks that depend on it automatically get adjusted - would that free one do that?

[WendyWelton]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

And Michael - that one you linked to looks pretty interesting as well. Thanks for that!

[Steve Workings]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Wendy (and Carol) - the free version does everything the paid version does. The only difference is that "Evaluation Copy" label.

Most developers here would just need the Website license for $399.

As far as the chart's date range, you're unlimited, bound only by what you can usefully display (even if you choose scrolling). Right now, I've tied up all ends to the little genie I've built, and have it so you can show days, weeks or months, with an additional top-level header for years. I haven't done the task-dependency piece, and won't be including it right now but it can be done with just a few hours' work on my part. Gotta stop somewhere right now.

Keep in mind the chart isn't making much in the way of decisions -- it's just reporting the data. So if you have dependencies it might be best to "map" them in your table and then let the table adjust for over/under-run of any dependency. Just thinking out loud here: If TaskA starts May 1, and should take 10 days, then TaskB 2, dependent on TaskA, can begin on May 11. But if TaskA runs to May 12, your table just needs to adjust the days out. A little work with trigger and stored procedure would be really powerful in recalculating everything. You could even have an "Expected_Days" and "Actual_Days" column and probably show a layered-type chart to show how far behind/ahead you are on the project. Again, just thinking out loud, haven't done this part yet.

And yes, it's nice to see some other chart offerings out there. But for the feature set and the pure beautiful look of Fusion Charts, the others don't come close.

I'm pretty swamped but trying to bundle up what I have for sale at IADN in the next few days. I'd be glad to work with you and Carol for the additional features you may need. Bonus: my dad was a contractor, I've built or helped build scores of houses plus my own barns, workshops and additions.

[kingcarol]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Very cool that you have construction experience, Steve. A few months ago, I played with looping xbasic code on a grid, and succeeded in updating the begin and end dates for dependent tasks when changing the begin date or duration days on a task. Sounds like the charts will use the dates from the grid after its been put through the loop and that will be great!

[WendyWelton]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

yes - very cool. I'm going to download that free version though and see what it looks like. For my purposes I couldn't have it say "evaluation version" and I don't see anything about that in their comparison of free vs paid. From that list it looks like they are not the same at all, but don't have that label. So, that free one might be sufficient. When I get a few minutes to download it and see what I can see, I'll let y'all know.

[Steve Workings]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

I'm pleased to offer the Alpha Five / Fusion Charts Gantt Chart Genie. It's available through the IADN store here. A video preview/overview of the genie and how to use it is here. In short, this makes it easy for you to create really beautiful gantt charts on your A5W pages, driven by your live/dynamic SQL data. Trust me -- if you need this, you want this tool instead of having to code it yourself.

[Bill Griffin]

Re: Looking for a compatible third-party gantt/scheduler control

Steve,

Just wanted to let you know that all is working great with the Gantt Chart Genie. You have, once again, saved me a bunch of time by figuring all this out for me (us). Simple to use, simple to setup and Fusion charts makes great charts.

Thanks.