Questions Tagged how-to
How to add cssClass to Context Menu in Gantt Chart View.
Answered: The cssClass property will be added in the next release. At this moment, you can apply custom class using the "theme" property. The theme name is used as a prefix for all classes used for menu elemen...
Gantt View: scrollable context menu or a button to expand
Answered: At this moment, the vertical scrollbar is not implemented. Just adding the CSS isn't enough as the calculated height needs to be taken into account. I recommend splitting the long list into several g...
Insert another textarea
Answered: You can use a custom modal dialog and add as many field as needed. Here is an example:
async function modalText() {
const form = [
{name: "Name", id: "name", type: "text"},
{name: "D...
DayPilot.Modal.close Not Working
Answered: In order to access objects from the "DayPilot" namespace, you need to include "daypilot-all.min.js". In this case, this means you need to include it in both pages (in the main page and in the modal c...
Unable to dp.init() in Lightning Web Component
Answered: LWC uses virtual DOM so you will need to adjust the code a bit. 1. Make sure that the init code is in renderedCallback(). This ensures that the placeholder will be available. 2. The DayPilot.Schedule...
How to set two input field in one row
Answered: The modal dialog form is designed to display one field per row. You might be able to adjust the CSS to display two fields per row but it is not supported out of the box at the moment.
Gantt View: Is it possible to have more that one progress bars for the Gantt task
Answered: Yes, you can add a custom progress bar using active areas. This approach is outlined in this tutorial (it's for React and Scheduler but the same logic can be used in the Gantt chart component): https...
Recurrent events
Answered: You can display recurrent events (and add the necessary icons) but you need to handle the recurrence definition and storage on the server side. The calendar needs to receive the individual occurrence...
how to select multiple value in form dropdown
Answered: Unfortunately, it is not possible to select multiple options from the drop down list (type: "select" or type: "searchable"). I recommend using a set of checkboxes instead (type: "checkbox").
Honoring grid layout
Answered: This seems to be caused by the wrapper divs that you use to display the columns for DayPilotNavigator and DayPilotCalendar. The tutorial uses "display: flex" to arrange these components but your code...
How to not show non business Hours in DayPilotCalendar
Answered: You can hide non-business hours using the heightSpec property:
const calendar = new DayPilot.Calendar("dp", {
heightSpec: "BusinessHoursNoScroll",
//...
});
calendar.init();
See also: htt...
How to hide elements in the hours row?
Answered: This looks like the minute part which is included in the standard view. However, it doesn't display if you use timeHeaderCellDuration value other than 60. I recommend checking the onBeforeTimeHeaderR...
Evento useless in shade
Answered: You can disable time range selecting using the config:
{
timeRangeSelectedHandling: "Disabled",
// ...
}
If you want to use this feature to create new events, it is necessary to call clear...
Moving and resizing tasks was not explained
Answered: You can find the documentation here: Resizing: https://doc.daypilot.org/gantt/task-resizing/ https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-gantt-ontaskresize/ Moving (horizontal): https://doc.daypilot.org/gantt/...
How to load resources from an API and display them as rows in the scheduler?
Answered: You can load resources from an API like this:
async componentDidMount() {
const {data} = await DayPilot.Http.get(`/api/resources`);
this.setState({resources: data});
}
The returned d...
How to implement row-up and row-down in gantt view.
Answered: Sorry for the confusion. You can do this by changing the order of tasks in the data source (it's stored in dp.tasks.list). Then call update() to apply the changes.
Max Events
Answered: This example uses onBeforeCellRender to customize the monthly calendar cells. It adds the action button using an active area. In Angular, it could look like this:
onBeforeCellRender: (args) => {
...
Button with bind action angular
Answered: I assume you mean the modal dialog: Unfortunately, Angular components in the form items are not supported at the moment.
Display Icon in options on Modal form
Answered: At this moment, icons can't be displayed in <select> items - it uses the standard browser element and that doesn't support HTML in <option> elements. You can implement your own form item type using p...
Zoom
Answered: There is now a new zoom API available in the latest sandbox build (2023.1.5540). See also: https://release.daypilot.org/changes/js/ The API docs and a tutorial are coming soon.
Quick way to set background color of cells in DayPilotScheduler
Answered: The BeforeCellRender event is fired for every cell and it needs to be kept as efficient as possible. It is not possible to run a new database query in every invocation. I recommend running a single q...
Change Hour Format
Answered: You can hide the minutes using CSS:
.calendar_default_rowheader_minutes {
display: none;
}
Use method on click (Calendar)
Answered: Yes - you should take a look at the onTimeRangeSelected event handler in your application. By default, the calendar doesn't do anything when you select a time range (click a cell) so if you see a mod...
Create event only by clicking (Calendar)
Answered: If you click a calendar cell, it will fire onTimeRangeSelect (and onTimeRangeSelected) event handler where you can create a new event. This works in both versions (Lite and Pro). To make sure only a ...
Is there any way to export range SVG/PNG in Gantt View?
Answered: This should work fine - DayPilot.Gantt.exportAs() method uses the same syntax as DayPilot.Scheduler.exportAs(). However, the range defined using "dateFrom" and "dateTo" can only define a subset of th...
Drag-drop from month calendar
Answered: At this moment, this is not supported but we will take a look at it.
How to display custom task array elements (React Calendar)
Answered: I have managed to solve this and the solution was: the method that build my events array was async and due to that fact, to update the events field in state I had to perform setState in .then functio...
Parent resource id (Vue Scheduler)
Answered: The "dp" variable used in example is a reference to DayPilot.Scheduler object. In Vue, you can get it using the "ref" attribute:
<template>
<DayPilotScheduler id="dp" :config="config" ref="sched...
Prevent Event Move (Vue Scheduler)
Answered: You can implement custom rules for event moving using "onEventMoving" event handler. You can find an example here: https://doc.daypilot.org/scheduler/event-moving-customization/