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Silverlight Gantt for SharePoint 2007

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With Dev4Side's Silverlight Gantt for SharePoint 2007, you obtain a new SharePoint Web Part that can be easly installed into your SharePoint's farm. The ablity to control your Tasks using a fully customizable Silverlight component provides a much better interaction compared to the standard SharePoint Gantt List View.

The Dev4Side's Silverlight Gantt Web Part can be attached to your Task List providing a better user iteraction: your Tasks can be finally be explored simply pointing them with your mouse. All Tasks properties are displayed directly into the web part throuth a dynamic tooltip, you don't need anymore to switch between pages.

Project managers receive the ability to manage user's tasks directly from this Web Part, Tasks can be moved through the timeline, always respecting the tasks constraints.

List of available features

Web part that can be integrated into a list view page or in a normal SharePoint site page
Two different task types
- simple task
- milestone (for one-day task)
Scrollable timeline using a horizontal scroll bar or using the keyboard arrows
View of addictional information about a single task. The following properties are always available in front of any movement with a tooltip:
- title
- start and end date
- duration expressed in days
- assigned to
- status
- priority
- % complete
An horizontal bar to allow final users to understand at any time on which activity are going to do one of the available operations
Possibility of tasks selection and movement on the timeline
Updates of movements done on the SharePoint task list using web services
Zoom-in and zoom-out operations to change the gantt view between:
- years
- months
- weeks
- days
Tasks dependencies, implemented by the "Start-to-end" algorithm
Automatic integration with SharePoint task list definition
List and view selection
Possibility to start the time from the current day or from the first task
Fully customizable Gantt's objects sizes and colors
Colors legenda

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Installation
Information about installation, will be available soon..

Configuration
After have correctly installed the components on you SharePoint farm, you have different kinds of configuration that you can apply to it. You can find all of this configurations directly from the "properties tool pane" of the Dev4Side Silverlight Gantt Web Part.
There are four different groups of properties:

Data Source configuration
Into this configuration group you can modify the source task list for displaying tasks into the Silverlight Gantt view.
1. Select task list - a drop down list for selecting the task list that you want to render in Silverlight.
2. Select list view - a drop down list that enable you to select the right view from the task list you have selected.
Silverlight options
Into this configuration group you can modify all related to the Silverlight plug-in area.
1. Gantt Height - an integer that enable you to select the max height of the Gantt area. The default value is 360 pixel.
2. Debug application - a Boolean value that enable or disable debug information of the web part.
Gantt options
Into this configuration group you can modify all related to the Gantt user interface and all its features.
1. Allow task movements - a Boolean value that enable or disable task update through drag and drop operations over the time line.
2. Allow zoom - a Boolean value that enable or disable changes to the zoom factor of the time line (by hours, by days, by weeks, by months or by years).
3. Allow constraints - a Boolean value that enable or disable constraints rendering and behavior.
4. Start from today - a Boolean value that enable the rendering of tasks from the current day (if set to true) or from the first task day (if set to false).
5. Cell Width - an integer that will be used for rendering the width of all day cells.
6. Cell Height - an integer that will be used for rendering the height of all day cells.
7. Font size - an integer that sets the size of the font for all the control, specially for the time line header and the task list on the left of the Gantt view.
8. Milestone task height - an integer that will be used for rendering a single milestone task.
Colors options
Into this configuration group you can modify all colors that are used into the Silverlight control.
1. Allow gradient color - a Boolean value that enable or disable the gradient brush over the object of the Gantt time line.
2. Weekend color column - the color for displaying weekend column.
3. Hover row color - the color for the row that help users to view the selected task.
4. Header color - the color for the header border.
5. Calendar color - the color for all Gantt time line borders and lines.
6. Task color - the color for the background of a simple task.
7. Task gradient color - the color that will be used for the gradient together with the task color for the background of a simple task.
8. Task text color - the color for a simple task text on the left side of the Gantt Web Part.
9. Selected task color - the color for a simple task selected.
10. Selected task gradient color - the color that will be user for the gradient together with the selected task color for the background of a simple task selected.
11. Selected task border color - the color for the border of a simple task selected.
12. Assigned to current user task color - the color for the background of a simple task assigned to the current user.
13. Milestone task color - the color for the background of a milestone task.
14. Milestone selected task color - the color for the background of a selected milestone task.
15. Milestone text color - the color for a milestone task text on the list side of the Gantt Web Part.
16. Assigned to current user milestone color - the color for the background of a milestone task assigned to the current user.
17. ToolTip background color - the color for the background of the dynamic tool tip for displaying task properties.
18. Task dependency color - the color used for the line of a simple task dependency.
19. Milestone dependency color - the color used for the line of a milestone dependency.