Questions Tagged how-to
Force resource column of two schedulers on the same page to have the same width
Answered: You'll need to turn off the "row header width auto-fit" feature (it adjusts the column width dynamically based on content): https://doc.daypilot.org/scheduler/row-header-width-auto-fit/
React component inside cells
Answered: It's in the works - it will be possible to add custom React components to cells in the upcoming release.
How can I make scheduler scrollable in mobile?
Answered: I made a few changes and Now it's working fine.
Start rectangle selection on event
Answered: At this moment, this is not supported. The mousedown on event will trigger event moving, unless you hold the Shift key.
How can I display shorten name of the Week?
Answered: The timeHeaders property is only applicable to the Scheduler component. In the Calendar component, you can change the date format using headerDateFormat property: https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-ca...
Can't use scheduler with daypilot lite javascript
Answered: Unfortunately, the Scheduler component is not included in DayPilot Lite for JavaScript. See also the feature matrix here: https://javascript.daypilot.org/feature-matrix/
Group concurrent events first state
Answered: There is no way to control the initial state of the automatic event groups, beyond setting the minimum number of overlapping events that form a group (using groupConcurrentEventsLimit property). If y...
Adding values of events than counting in Group Availability
Answered: This example will calculate a sum of values stored in a specified event field ("val"):
onBeforeCellRender: (args) => {
if (args.cell.isParent) {
const field = "val";
const children =...
Refresh Gantt command
Answered: The Modal.Close() method uses a workaround to return the control back to the client side. Older versions may not work well - please make sure that you use the latest version of the ASP.NET WebForms h...
Re-Calculate Totals row when a row is deleted
Answered: The cells in rows marked with "cellsAutoUpdated: true" will be updated on every change, including a row removal. You might want to review and update the calculation logic. The tutorial (https://code....
Eventos
Answered: Please take a look at this tutorial - it shows how to load calendar events from a database: https://code.daypilot.org/50175/angular-appointment-calendar-component-typescript
custom resource field
Answered: You'll need to transform your data set to match the data structure required by the Scheduler. It displays the name specified by the "name" property: https://api.daypilot.org/daypilot-scheduler-resour...
How to force Event to new row
Answered: Yes, please take a look at the following tutorial: https://code.daypilot.org/91222/javascript-scheduler-event-placement-strategies
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...