General Planning Features

As a graphical interfaces showing project and resource planning information, the Graphical Project Planning and Graphical Project Resource Planning pages have the same general look and usage, with some variations due to the type of information displayed. Both allow you to quickly change to different dates and time periods, search for specific job lines or resources, change the appearance of the page, and of course, view the project information using a Gantt chart.

This section provides an overview of how to navigate this page, change settings, and so on.

The Go to Date field in the Navigation FastTab allows you to move to a specific date in the chart.

Zoom to ...

Just below the Navigation FastTab is the Zoom to ... drop-down, which allows you to change the view to different time periods. The options are Month, Week, Day, Half Day, Hour, Half Hour, and Minute.

Search through Tasks

Next you can search through the planned project lines. This is a free text field so you can enter full or partial names of jobs, job lines, or resources and then press Enter or choose the Search button to find all lines with the search criteria. The filtered entries can be cleared by choosing the Clear button.

Charts

Navigating and using the charts are described in detail in Graphical Project Planning and Graphical Project Resource Planning.

Chart Changes

The bottom of the page contains controls that allow you to change the appearance of the chart.

Expand/Collapse all rows

The first two icons allow you to either Expand all rows or Collapse all rows in the left pane of the chart.

Zoom In/Zoom Out/Zoom to fit into page

The third and fourth icons allow you to zoom into or out of the time periods in the right pane of the chart. The fifth icon allows you reset to a month view that will fit into the page.

Displays menu to choose visible columns

The sixth icon allows you to add columns to the chart area. This is especially useful because you can add Start and End Date/Times for the planning lines.

Language

The Language drop-down allows you to change the information on the pages to either English or German.

Style

The Style drop-down allows you to change the color of the chart area, including text, as well as the control icons at the bottom of the page.

Note

The custom option works with the TreeGrid CSS defined with EJS TreeGrid 5.0.

Gantt

The Gantt drop-down allows you to change the color of the Gantt area of the chart.

Note

The custom option works with the TreeGrid CSS defined with EJS TreeGrid 5.0.

Size

The Size drop-down allows you to change the size (height) of the rows in the chart area.

Scale

The Scale drop-down allows you to change the size of the chart area.

Contrast

The Contrast drop-down allows you to change the contrast between the foreground and background of the chart area.