GanttView grid and child tasks with different column headers

[Stuart]

Hi,

Is it possible to have child tasks display in the grid on the GanttView with different columns/headers than the parent task, whilst still displaying normally on the time line portion of the control?

thanks

[Ventzi]

Hello Stuart,

You could create a custom GanttTask which will have custom properties and each property will be set differently for the parent and child tasks. In other words you could set a value for a property which should be displayed in each summary task and null for all his child tasks. You could see the result in the attached sample project. If you need to display the cells in the columns differently for parent/child tasks you could use the CellTemplate property of the ColumnDefinition class.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ventzi
Telerik

[Stuart]

Hi, thanks for the response,

The sample you provided isn't exactly what I need. The second scenario where I need to display the cells in the columns differently for parent/child tasks is the one I need, however, I am struggling with creating a CellTemplate to do what you say is possible.

The child tasks have Start/End dates, but have different data that should be displayed in the grid than the parent. Essentially it's master/detail where the relationship is keyed off an id field. In my custom GanttTask I've got properties for everything I need to see when the GanttTask is a parent, or when it's a child.

Something like:

Parent Col Name 1 | Parent Col Name 2 | Parent Col Name 3
  Some data      | Some other data   | Some more data
    -> Child Col Name 1 | Child Col Name 2      | Child Col Name3
     Different data     | Different Other Data | More different data
Parent Col Name 1 | Parent Col Name 2 | Parent Col Name 3
  Some data      | Some other data   | Some more data
    -> Child Col Name 1 | Child Col Name 2      | Child Col Name3
     Different data     | Different Other Data | More different data
Parent Col Name 1 | Parent Col Name 2 | Parent Col Name 3
  Some data      | Some other data   | Some more data
    -> Child Col Name 1 | Child Col Name 2      | Child Col Name3
     Different data     | Different Other Data | More different data

As I say, I'm just struggling with getting the CellTemplate to work.

-stuart

[Ventzi]

Hello Stuart,

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I've meant with "display the cells in the columns differently" that you could set different style for the different cells and not displaying different data. Each column of the Grid section of the RadGanttView should display the value of one property of the GanttTask independently this task is parent or child. This is done by the MemberBinding property of the ColumnDefinition. This is the reason why this particular scenario cannot be achieved in RadGanttView.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Ventzi
Telerik