Hi, I am evaluating your product and want to see if your Aspose.Tasks product will handle some functions within MS Project? Specifically, after creating a project file and creating several tasks and subtasks, I want to collapse all the tasks and only show the top level tasks. Is that possible with your product?
Also, if I want to always roll up the Gantt bars, is that possible?
Thanks,
Chris Brown
Hi Chris,
Thanks for considering Aspose.
It will be helpful for us if you can please elaborate your exact requirement. Did you mean creation of a project and further rendering of the project data (containing only top level tasks) to a Gantt Chart Image or HTML through Aspose.Tasks for .NET?
Sorry, what I am trying to do is:
1. Have my ASP.NET web app create a blank project file
2. Create tasks and subtasks
3. Initially display the level 1 tasks all rolled up instead of seeing all the tasks and subtasks.
I also want to make sure that the Gantt bars that display in MS Project in the rightmost pane are rolled up (Manually doing this in MS Project, you select the Format menu bar option, then choose Layout, and check the "Always roll up Gantt bars" option). I'm just not sure how you would do this programatically from within the .NET web app. Furthermore, my users want the web app to automatically format the Gantt bars with different colors to match different subtasks (which are project phases).
Does this make more sense?
Thanks,
Chris Brown
ChrisBrown:
1. Have my ASP.NET web app create a blank project file
2. Create tasks and subtasks
Yes. Please try our online ASP.NET demo application, where you will be able to create a project from scratch according to your input.
http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.tasks/csharp/create-project.aspx
3. Initially display the level 1 tasks all rolled up instead of seeing all the tasks and subtasks.
I also want to make sure that the Gantt bars that display in MS Project in the rightmost pane are rolled up (Manually doing this in MS Project, you select the Format menu bar option, then choose Layout, and check the "Always roll up Gantt bars" option). I'm just not sure how you would do this programatically from within the .NET web app. Furthermore, my users want the web app to automatically format the Gantt bars with different colors to match different subtasks (which are project phases).
a) For the textual view of level 1 tasks, please try our online ASP.NET demo application.
http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.tasks/csharp/read-project.aspx
Here you can upload a project file and view the level 1 tasks.
b) For graphical view of the Project data along with Gantt Chart display, the created project can be rendered to Gantt Chart Image or an HTML page which can further be displayed in your ASP.NET application. For more information on these features, please visit this article and this video tutorial. In addition, you can download the latest Aspose.Tasks for .NET 3.0.0 trial version here that will also include a WinForm demo application for rendering of Project data to a Gantt Chart Image under the following location:
[Root OS Drive]:\Program Files\Aspose\Aspose.Tasks\Aspose.Tasks for .NET\Featured Demos
In case of any further inquiry, please feel free to share with us.
Hi Chris,
For provision of Gantt roll up and different colors options in the rendered Gantt Chart Image or HTML page, an issue with issue id 17739 has been created on our Issue Tracking System. This thread has been linked with this issue so that you can be automatically notified as soon as this issue is resolved.
Hi Chris,
An ASP.NET demo has been made live at:
http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.tasks/csharp/gantt-chart.aspx
Here you can upload an MPP project file and further, view its Gantt Chart Image.
Thanks so much for your help and insight!
Chris Brown
Hi Chris,
The issues you have found earlier (filed as TASKS-17739) have been fixed in this update.
The issues you have found earlier (filed as ) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for JasperReports 18.3 update.