Notice: a newer version of this web part has been published. Read and download here.
I promised a month ago that I would post a web part for charting WSS data into a Gantt chart. Well, here it is. It looks somewhat like this:
The part allows you to specify a list and view to render. You select the fields from the view that will indicate the start and end date of an item. The third required field is the title field. Because the part works with view fields, you can also use calculated fields to specify the start date, end date or title of the item.
Because I was too lazy to create a custom designer, you have to enter the names of the list, view and fields in a textbox. When you specify incorrect values, the part will show you the available options in it's error message.
So you want to use it? I put up a zip file containing both the sources and binaries. I haven't made an installer, but I suppose that most of you know what to do with a dll and dwp file. In your web.config you'll have to add a line for trusting the part like this:
‹SafeControl Assembly="Duynstee.GanttChart.WebPart, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9a66e9ace203d5f7" Namespace="Duynstee.GanttChart.WebPart" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />
The web part is actually more of a sample of using the underlying GanttCharting library. This will render VML that can be directly included into the HTML (IE only!). The charting library has some features that are not used by the web part, but that you may want to build on:
- aggregation: each GanttItem can have a collection of sub-items. Items with sub-items will be rendered accordingly (see sample in this post)
- links: each item has a LinkUrl property that will be placed on the item. You could have the item link to the edit page of the item
- color: you can color each item as you wish
Download here