Product Features

In addition, JGantt allows for cross-diagram interactions. By means of drag&drop an activity can be dragged from one Gantt diagram into another one, e.g. in order to assign a task to a person or to a machine.

Page Preview and Printing
Printing capabilities of Gantt charts are included in the component allowing for zooming and and for scaling a diagram to page size, for paging and for page previews, for comfortable viewing and navigating.

Bars
Activities in a chart of JGantt can be displayed either by a variety of pre-defined bar shapes, or can be composed from the scratch. Any shape and pattern is available, even dynamic bars that actively grow or diminish to indicate the degree of completion of an activity. This animated picture shows a completion bar.

The assignment of graphical attributes is data based. You can, for example, display all tasks of a specific department in red, or set symbols to mark certain activities.

Annotation can be added to bars and symbols. This animated picture demonstrates selected positions of annotations on a bar.

Grouping and Sorting in Gantt Charts
Activities in Gantt charts can be sorted and grouped after criteria. Group nodes can be defined and graphically accentuated in the Gantt graph as well as in the table.

This animated picture shows groups in two different states of collapsing: completely collapsed groups where bars may overlap, and "optimized" collapsed groups, where overlapping bars are put in a second row.

Hierarchical Arrangement of Nodes
Nodes in Gantt charts can be arranged in a hierarchy by defining a hierarchy code. Display nodes on lower levels to be indented in the table. Lower level areas can interactively be collapsed and expanded.

This animated picture demonstrates collapsing and expanding of the second and third level by clicking on the hierarchy symbols in the table.

Other Features
Bars can be connected by links of different types. Vertical and horizontal grids can be placed in the Gantt graph. The time scale can be customized by their number, by postion, scaling, colors and font.

Easy-To-Use Programming Interface
For data exchange, to a large extent the component can adapt to existing data structures of the application.

The Gantt diagram can be configured by numerous properties at design time. At run time all properties are available for the application via the API, too.

Technical Requirements
JGantt has been written in pure Java and can therefore be run on any common platform that dispose of Java 2 version 1.3 (swing) or a later version.

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