Automatic time scales

Gantt
#1

Is there a way for projects and tasks to have automatic timescales given according to their child tasks…

I currently have to get the earliest and oldest date from my data and then work outwards to supply, for example:

new GanttProjectInfo(1, 'test project', new Date(2012, 1, 1));

and

new GanttTaskInfo(2, 'test task', new Date(2012, 1, 1), 10000, 50, "");

with scales that fit the data inside…

Is there something like:

new GanttProjectInfo(1, 'test project', 'auto');

so that for data that does have a start date and end date, it can automatically push it’s parents out?

#2

If like myself, you have a selection of tasks that belong to a category… for example:

-farming
-cows
-chickens
-sheep
-morning feed(09:00 -> 10:00)
-take to field(11:00 -> 15:00)
-sleep time(15:00 -> 17:30)

Farming is the category and so is sheep… I only have start and end dates for the tasks, not the category (or project as is defined in the tool).

My problem is that I have to delve into the tasks in order to set a start date and end date for the category sheep… similarly, i need to find out the earliest date and pass it back to the farming category to satisfy the parameters in the GanttTaskInfo function and GanttProjectInfo function.

Is there a way this can automatically be done considering I have no need for time scales for the categories. They are there for visual aid of knowing which tasks i’m looking at.

hope this clarifies my above post.

#3

// couldn’t edit last post so posted new.

If like myself, you have a selection of tasks that belong to a category… for example:

-farming
------cows
------------morning feed(09:00 -> 10:00)
------chickens
------sheep
------------morning feed(09:00 -> 10:00)
------------take to field(11:00 -> 15:00)
------------sleep time(15:00 -> 17:30)

Farming is the category and so is sheep… I only have start and end dates for the tasks, not the category (or project as is defined in the tool).

My problem is that I have to delve into the tasks in order to set a start date and end date for the category sheep… similarly, i need to find out the earliest date and pass it back to the farming category to satisfy the parameters in the GanttTaskInfo function and GanttProjectInfo function.

Is there a way this can automatically be done considering I have no need for time scales for the categories. They are there for visual aid of knowing which tasks i’m looking at.

hope this clarifies my above post.

#4

No, no such easy way. SO you do it right by supplying the earliest time.