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Solutions Schedule WPF is a comprehensive control for managing and presenting enterprise information in Gantt and Resource style presentations. Create fully functional Resource Gantt, Planning, and Scheduling solutions in minutes.
Welcome to Solutions Schedule WPF - the industry-tested developer's choice of snap-in Enterprise Resource Planning and Scheduling component software.
Five primary elements comprise the Solutions Schedule:
The Schedule Area, where time bars are created and interacted with and through which developers define the type of Gantt style end-user interaction, varying degrees of accuracy, and supporting information that can be surfaced.
The multi-column List View and Tree View area - where developers define either style of presentation - the direct edit List View or the Tree View and connect data for presenting and interacting with categorized lists of Resources.
The Ruler Area offers direct timeline customization for creating plans and schedules based on time types and timelines of Seconds and Minutes to Days, Weeks, Quarters, and Years. Significant and minor time interval settings accommodate great flexibility.
List Items, which originate in the List View / Tree View area and carry through the Scheduling Area for a contiguous representation of Resources and the tasks and roles assigned to them. Excel-style drag and drop of node items are supported.
The Time Bars, which reside within the Gantt Scheduling Area, complete DBI's unique Gantt Style, intuitively interactive, Drag and Drop planning and scheduling surface with User Drawn options.
Each of the primary elements comprising the Solutions Schedule is managed dynamically by the architecture and business rules applied through the control construct.
Further, via the Properties, Events, and Methods (PEMs), developers are provided discrete programmability and complete control of the control's presentation - including user (owner) drawn features built into the List / Tree View, Time Line Ruler, Time Bars, and Schedule area. User Drawn features are found in the Enterprise license.
Schedule Object Details
The Schedule Area offers developers and end-users an intuitive Gantt-style, drag-and-drop area for planning and scheduling multiple resources grouped and organized as required across various timelines and time-period presentations.
When managing resources across domains and with varying timetables, there is a significant advantage offered by Solutions Schedule - being able to present multiple schedules, each with differing time scales and schedule period spans (days, weeks, etc.) - and all in one view that also allows dragging and dropping between the schedule objects for increased efficiency.
Within the Schedule Area, several objects offer acceptable-grained interaction with schedule plans. For example:
Notes – Notes are stationary visual objects in the schedule. Tooltips with information about the note are displayed when the mouse hovers over the Note icon. Notes can be used to draw attention to important aspects of a schedule.
Line arrows are images placed at the start or end of a schedule item notifying the end-user that other scheduled tasks are not within the viewable schedule area.
Guide Lines are vertical lines within the schedule area for representing a critical point in time and also to help align time bars accurately.
Current Time Line is a vertical line drawn in the schedule representing the current time of day. The Current Time Offset property can display the line in different time zones.
Dead zones set specific areas of the schedule where activities cannot be set - mouse actions are not allowed to create or move time bars into a dead zone.
Edit modes extend or restrict the CRUD aspects of Solutions Schedule WPF. There are seven specific edits modes: Edit, Erase, Select, Link, Unlink, Split, and Guideline, which can be presented via the Edit Modes Toolbar object.
We often encounter large scheduled presentations with thousands of Resources with an exponential number of Time bars planned over an extended period. In these situations, having the List Guide feature available to assist interaction within the Schedule Area is excellent, especially when the resource list/tree may not be in view.
Multi Column List / Tree View Object Details
Solutions Schedule .NET offers two operational modes for displaying Resources - a traditional multi-column List View as well as a Tree View:
In addition to the multi-column list and tree view options, many customization and intuitive end-user features allow for unique ERP, MRP, and other planning presentations, including:
In-Cell Editing:
Built-in edit box and combo box
Support for 3rd party edit controls
Standard edit modes: , , , and for navigation
Modify the Edit Controls default move and size settings
Direct access to text and combo boxes for:
List / Tree View Area Options
Drag and Drop Resource List Item within Parent Node
Change Line Item height by clicking and dragging
Change Column widths by clicking and dragging
Column Sorting built-in
Line Item Headers independent of columns
Click and dragline items within the parent group*
Line Item subtext
Booleans – support for checkboxes in a column
Set Resource List Horizontal Scroll Bar Visible
List / Tree View Area - User-Drawn Features:
Time Line Ruler
The Schedule Ruler offers excellent flexibility for creating and managing activities, roles, appointments, etc., across any combination of time type and time value:
User Drawn Timeline Ruler Segments - i.e., custom week presentation
Time types include divisions of hours, days, weeks, months, and years.
Time Distance values allow for managing resources down to the second - an important aspect when scheduling robotics - and to years for planning conferences, equipment rentals, and production cycles having long durations.
The Time Distance property allows developers to create zoom-in and zoom-out capabilities for their scheduled presentations.
Ruler Selection – The start and end time of a selected time bar is highlighted in the timeline ruler, allowing for a more accurate alignment of resource time allocations.
Time Bar Features
Time bars represent the events, assigned roles, and appointments attributed to each resource across the timeline in a schedule object.
Time bar functionality offered in Solutions Schedule is extensive, offering developers the ability to provide end-users the opportunity to consume a wealth of information in a single glance:
Regular text and sub-text – time bars support two text string display options
Text Into View – Make sure the data intended for display is always visible
Time Bar Dates – display the start/end days of the month within a time bar
Duplicate time bars quickly with keyboard and mouse actions
Customize time bar presentations with:
Set View - per Schedule Object, set the Schedule View
Overlap lines – extra thick lines drawn at the points where time bars overlap
Toggle Time Bars – place time bars behind or to the front
Alignment Lines – vertical lines appearing at either end of a time bar when a time bar is being created, moved, or sized, allowing for precision alignment
Links – Time bars can be linked with Gantt lines. Link time bars in any combination of Start to Start, Start to End, and End to End with standard, reciprocal, or direct link.
Link Lines, Dash Patterns and Styles, User Drawn Link Lines
