Task Dependencies
The Gantt task dependencies show the relationships between the rendered tasks in the Timeline section.
Data Binding
To add dependencies to the Timeline part of the Gantt, bind the dependencies property of the component to an array of GanttDependency objects.
Each dependency object has to contain the following fields:
- (Required for internal use)
id—Serves as a unique identifier for the current dependency. fromId—The ID of the task where the dependency starts.toId—The ID of the task where the dependency ends.type—The type of Gantt dependency (read more).
If the provided
dependenciesitems do not conform to theGanttDependencyinterface, you have to provide adependencyModelFieldsobject which is internally used to extract the required data from the provided objects (read more).
The following example demonstrates how to bind a GanttDependency object array to the Gantt.
Types
According to the specified task relationships, the Gantt supports a set of task dependency types. These indicate the way the tasks rely on one another:
- finish to finish (FF)—Task B cannot finish before task A finishes.
- finish to start (FS)—Task B cannot start before task A finishes.
- start to finish (SF)—Task A cannot finish before task B starts.
- start to start (SS)—Task B cannot start before task A starts.
The DependencyType enumerable determines the type of the provided dependency.
Custom Model
As sometimes data coming from a remote server cannot be mapped in advance, if you have provided a dependencyModelFields object, you can use a custom object interface for defining the dependencies array. The dependencyModelFields requires information about the custom objects fields which the Gantt will look up when it tries to extract the dependency ID, the start task ID, the end task ID, and the dependency type.
