Questions Tagged how-to
Daypilot Event phases with custom bubbleHtml
Answered: 1. Yes, the active areas are rendered on top of the event and it covers the text. The solution here would be to render the text in a special active area that is rendered last (they are rendered in th...
How to align text centered in daypilot event?
Answered: The event content div (*_event_inner) uses "display: flex" which prevents "text-align: center" from working. You will need to use "justify-content: center;" instead. It has to be set on the inner div...
Automatically collapse child tasks
Answered: By default, the state of all Gantt chart groups is set to "expanded". You can keep the children collapsed by setting Expanded = false when loading tasks.
Vue - Accessing calendar functions
Answered: It looks like you are using the open-source Lite version which includes only a subset of features. The scrollToHour() and message() methods are only available in the Pro version at the moment. See al...
Gantt chart not showing
Answered: I recommend checking the HTTP requests using the browser developers tools, Network tab. You will see which requests fail and the responses will include an error message which may provide a hint. Most...
Scheduler: How to disable rowheadercolumn resizing?
Answered: This is a divider between row headers and the main Scheduler grid. At this moment, it is always resizable when you enable row header scrolling: https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-scheduler-rowheadersc...
How to let the grid occupy the white empty space a the bottom
Answered: You can set custom row height using minHeight property (https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-scheduler-resources/). However, it doesn't calculate the value automatically. In order to avoid the white spa...
Setting rowHeaderWidthAutoFit to true doesn't work if rowHeaderColumns ist set
Answered: The width auto-fit feature works with row header columns as well, but the width is calculated for the content cells (not for the column titles).
How set the scale resp. the zoom automatically on the number of days
Answered: The built-in zoom system (see the tutorial at https://code.daypilot.org/32893/javascript-scheduler-zoom) lets you specify the values either statically or using a function. If you use a function you w...
How to display child resources in modal form list
Answered: The HTML5 Scheduler tutorial (https://code.daypilot.org/87166/html5-scheduler) uses a flatten() function which does essentially the same that you are doing:
function flatten(resources, result) {
...
How to add a database and script to handle public holidays.
Answered: There is a tutorial available that shows how to display holidays (by setting a custom scheduler cell background color): https://code.daypilot.org/93068/javascript-scheduler-displaying-holidays I beli...
ScrollTo
Answered: scrollTo() is a client-side method and it can only be used on the client side, in JavaScript: https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-scheduler-scrollto/
Hourly range covering two consecutive days
Answered: OK, thanks for the update. In the Scheduler, there are two ways to achieve that: 1. You can define the timeline manually by adding individual cells: https://doc.daypilot.org/scheduler/timeline/ 2. Yo...
box.html in group mode
Answered: Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the task group inner HTML in ASP.NET.
Event text displaying
Answered: You can make the text smaller using CSS but this will not ensure that every possible text will be displayed in full. I recommend using the bubble component which can display additional details using ...
Custom CSS class for a resource
Answered: You can use onBeforeRowHeaderRender event handler to add a custom CSS class: https://doc.daypilot.org/scheduler/row-header-customization/ Example: JavaScript
dp.onBeforeRowHeaderRender = function(a...
Binding Jquery datatable with vue scheduler
Answered: It is possible to activate any DOM element as draggable to the Scheduler. If you have access to the row items in the jquery datatable then you can using DayPilot.Scheduler.makeDraggable() method to a...
Progress bar change color
Answered: You can use the box.barColor and box.barBackColor properties: https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-task-data/
Disable Group Availability Row
Answered: The purpose of the invalidate() method (https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-cellarray-invalidate/) is to ask for a fresh result of onBeforeCellRender event callback. It is useful if you display calcula...
Displaying Group Availability
Answered: This issue has been fixed in version 2020.3.4547: https://javascript.daypilot.org/daypilot-pro-for-javascript-2020-3-4547/ I recommend switching to the latest version though - which is now 2022.1.518...
How to set custom border color on business days in scheduler?
Answered: The cell borders are rendered using long 1px elements that are displayed at the cell boundaries. The color is set using "background-color" style. The horizontal lines are marked with .scheduler_defau...
Is it possible to have resources on the vertical axis for the calendar?
Answered: Unfortunately, this is not possible. You might be able to mimic this arrangement in the Scheduler using a combination of custom start/end values and eventStackingLineHeight (https://doc.daypilot.org/...
Are we able to change the bar width?
Answered: You can change the bar width using CSS:
<style>
.wider-bar .calendar_default_event_bar,
.wider-bar .calendar_default_event_bar_inner {
width: 12px;
}
</style>
And add the "wider-bar" CSS c...
How do you make more than one employee run the same shift
Answered: Yes, there are many different scenarios that are not covered by this sample. To add more people to the same time and location, you can choose a solution depending on the workflow: 1. To allow more as...
scheduler expand collapse animation control
Answered: You can disable the animation using treeAnimation property: https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-scheduler-treeanimation/
How to format timeheader "Week"
Answered: Yes, you can do it using onBeforeTimeHeaderRender event handler:
import {Component, ViewChild, AfterViewInit} from '@angular/core';
import {DayPilot, DayPilotSchedulerComponent} from 'daypilot-pro...
Update keyboard focus on clicking cells or events of frozen rows
Referring to this ticket: https://forums.daypilot.org/question/5478/keyboard-navigation-from-last-cell The following example will update the keyboard focus during time range selection (cell clicks): ...
Change Arrow Icon on Links
Answered: The link arrows are 6px * 6px elements marked with the following CSS classes: scheduler_default_link_arrow_right scheduler_default_link_arrow_left scheduler_default_link_arrow_down scheduler_default_...
StartTime indicator when moving an event
Answered: You can do that using onEventMoving event handler:
dp.onEventMoving = args => {
args.top.enabled = true;
args.top.html = args.start.toString("HH:mm");
};
See also: https://api.daypilot.org...
Multicolumn in week Calendar
Answered: When you switch the calendar viewType to "Resources", you can define custom columns. Take a look at the following documentation page: https://doc.daypilot.org/calendar/column-header-hierarchy/ Exampl...