radscheduleview for project planning

[Armin]

Hello,
I need to create a project planning tool which allows to manage project lenght (in days) and responsibility with drag and drop functionality;
I thought that the timeline view may be what I'm looking for but there are always times (hour, minute, second) in between which are not interesting for me.
Substantially I would need the timeline view with 4 employees as rows and the days as columns; the user should then be able to create a new project which can be 1 to n days and drag and drop it between the employees.

Could You please give me some advise or small sample project on how I could do this?

Regards

[Yana]

Hello Armin,

I guess that TimelineViewDefinition is suitable for your scenario, you just need to set its MinorTickLength and MajorTickLength properties (they're demonstrated in ScheduleView Configuratior example in our WPF qsf here).

Also you should use resources for the different employees, please check this help article for more details.
I've attached a simple example to demonstrate both approaches, please download it and examine it.

Kind regards,
Yana
the Telerik team

[Armin]

Hello Yana,
thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!
But now I have another problem; I tried my case in a small sample project and everything works as expected. But when I copy the same code to my real project I am not able anymore to resize or drag and drop appointments! It seems as if the control is in a kind of readonly mode.
It is the same code; I really don't understand what the problem could be!?

Unfortunately I cannot send you our production code and in the sample project I was not able to reproduce the behavior; but maybe you have an idea of what the problem could be (DragDropManager,...)?

Regards

[Yana]

Hello Armin,

We're not sure what could be the reason for this issue. The ScheduleView can be in read-only mode in the following cases:

• when there are SpecialSlots with IsReadOnly property enabled;
• when some events are cancelled (AppointmentEditing, AppointmentCreating);
• when there is a custom DragDropBehavior with some overriden methods.

Could you please check these cases? Let us know the whether this helps.
 
Kind regards,
Yana
the Telerik team

[Armin]

Hello Yana,
I checked all 3 points that You suggested, but I don't use SpecialSlots nor do I have registered events or a custom DragDropBehavior. May it be related with MVVM (Prism) that I am using!?
Because I tried to show view in a separate window and there it works as expected.
I checked my code if I was setting a RadDragAndDropManager somewhere but nothing.
The application is structured like this:
Shell (Window)
  Grid
    RadTabControl
      RadTabItem
        RadDocking
            RadSplitContainer
                RadPaneGroup
                    RadPane
                        ContentControl (where on startup the user control with the radscheduleview is placed)

I created the same structure in a sample project and there it works (there I'm not using Prism).

I tried also to put the scheduler on top of all other controls and there it worked (kind of).
Maybe You have some other suggestions on what I could try!?

Regards

[Armin]

Hello Yana,
I was now able to create a simple sample application which shows the bug. You can download it under this url: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gtf79o

Regards

[Yana]

Hello Armin,

Thank you for providing the project.

There are two issues:

1. the first one is related to your custom appointment, could you please inherit Appointment class instead of implementing IAppointment? -  the approach is demonstrated here.

2. there is an issue with Drag-and-Drop functionality in RadDocking when it's placed in TabControl, it's already logged in our issue tracking system, you can vote for it and check its status here.

Best wishes,
Yana
the Telerik team