Scrolling the Gantt Chart to the current day or month.

Gantt
#1

I am currently considering using the Gantt control (it looks really good!) but am wondering if there is an easy way to ensure that the chart is by default scrolled to the current date or month when it is loaded for the user?

E.g. If I have a project starting in May 2012 and finshing in December 2013 I would like the chart to be scrolled to Sept 2013 (the current month we are in now). Note: I have used two scales: A Year scale with a subscale of month.

#2

Hello,
it turned out that release v2.0 does not have public method for scrolling to the specific date. There is the only method that scrolls to the coordinates and the private method that calculates X coordinate from date.
For now you may use following code

gantt.scrollTo( gantt._pos_from_date( new Date(2013, 8, 1) ) );

A proper public method will be added with the nearest update.

#3

Thanks so much for the tip - very helpful! :smiley:

#4

I tried this and give me this error
TypeError: gantt._pos_from_date is not a function
thanks

#5

This works for me

var scrollX = gantt.posFromDate(new Date(“2013/12/01”));
gantt.scrollTo(scrollX, 0);