How to Simulate Hiding Weekends in Timeline View of RadScheduler

Updated on Sep 9, 2026

Environment

Version	Product	Author
2026.3.812	RadScheduler for WinForms	Desislava Yordanova

Description

The Timeline View in RadScheduler displays a continuous chronological time scale and does not implement the ISupportShowWeekend interface. As a result, it does not provide a built-in ShowWeekend property like SchedulerWeekView or SchedulerMonthView.

When there is a requirement to display only working days (Monday through Friday) and exclude weekends from the visible timeline, you can simulate hiding weekends by limiting the visible period to 5 days at a time and snapping the start date to Monday whenever navigation occurs.

Figure 1: Simulating Hiding Weekends in Timeline View

Solution

To simulate hiding weekends in Timeline View:

1. Set ActiveViewType to SchedulerViewType.Timeline.
2. Set the DisplayedCellsCount of the current scaling to 5 so that only 5 consecutive day columns are visible at any time.
3. Align the StartDate of the SchedulerTimelineView to the Monday of the target week.
4. Subscribe to the PropertyChanged event of SchedulerTimelineView. When the StartDate property changes (e.g., when the user navigates), recalculate the start date to snap to Monday and re-apply DisplayedCellsCount = 5.

C#

public partial class RadForm1 : Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadForm
{
    public RadForm1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        radScheduler1.ActiveViewType = SchedulerViewType.Timeline;

        SchedulerTimelineView timelineView = radScheduler1.GetTimelineView();
        timelineView.GetScaling().DisplayedCellsCount = 5;
        DateTime monday = GetMonday(new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, 9, 1));
        timelineView.StartDate = monday;

        // Re-apply the work-week whenever the user navigates.
        timelineView.PropertyChanged += TimelineView_PropertyChanged;
    }

    private void TimelineView_PropertyChanged(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.PropertyName == nameof(SchedulerTimelineView.StartDate))
        {
            SchedulerTimelineView timelineView = radScheduler1.GetTimelineView();
            DateTime newStart = timelineView.StartDate;

            // If the user lands on a weekend, shift to next/previous Monday.
            if (newStart.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Tuesday)
            {
                newStart = newStart.AddDays(6);
            }

            DateTime monday = GetMonday(newStart);
            timelineView.PropertyChanged -= TimelineView_PropertyChanged;

            timelineView.StartDate = monday;
            timelineView.GetScaling().DisplayedCellsCount = 5;
            timelineView.PropertyChanged += TimelineView_PropertyChanged;
        }
    }

    private DateTime GetMonday(DateTime date)
    {
        int diff = date.DayOfWeek switch
        {
            DayOfWeek.Sunday => -6,
            _ => DayOfWeek.Monday - date.DayOfWeek
        };

        return date.AddDays(diff).Date;
    }
}

See Also

• Timeline View
• Work Week View
• Formatting Cells
• Custom Time Scale in RadScheduler