Manage resource scheduling and planning. Solutions::Schedule is designed to provide Windows Developers with an enhanced drag and drop resource scheduling user interface for their applications. The package includes sample applications (complete with Visual Basic source code) that illustrate the use and interactivity of the component in a working application. Like all DBI COM components, Solutions::Schedule adheres to Microsoft’s OLE standards allowing perfect implementation in Web applications and ASP.NET solutions, maintaining the rich user interface and full drag and drop capabilities we have come to depend on.
New in V7.0:
- XML Import & Export Support: Read and Write to/from XML data and optionally include presentation detail
- Remote XML File Support: Read XML files from local, LAN, WAN resources or web servers
- JPEG Support: Publish schedules to the web and add images to reports
- Time Lines: ctSchedule now handles increments from minutes to years. Additional functionality allows developer definition of time-line presentations (i.e. text and colors for weeks, months, quarters, week number)
- List Header & Ruler Options: Enhance time line presentations with full control of captions and color bars
Improved in V7.0:
- Drag and Drop: The control now accepts drag and drop operations into the list part of the control, the schedule, and the time bars. (Only in IDE's that support drag and drop in an ActiveX control)
- Color Bars: Add areas of color to enhance readability
- Built-in Printing: Now supports options for page footers, title fonts, title alignment, and masked bitmaps
- General Features: Insert schedule items, Manipulate vertical scroll, Minimum time bar width, XP Style fill patterns for the list headers and ruler
The ctSchedule object is a full-featured scheduling system control. ctSchedule allows you to quickly add employee or resource scheduling to your applications. This ActiveX component gives you the ability to print schedules, assign time lines or bars to a resource, change the viewing granularity (zoom in and zoom out), and create a wide variety of time bar styles.
The ctSchedule control contains the following sections:
- Title: The title section contains the titles for the list column. The Title section can contain up to 100 columns
- Ruler: The ruler section is to the right of the Title section and is the same height as the Title section. It contains the time data used to make up the schedule
- List: The list section resides under the Title section. It contains the list of all items. (ie. employees, resources, etc. ) The list can contain up to 32,000 items and up to 100 columns
- Schedule: The schedule section contains the time bars or schedules for each item. Each item can have up to 32,000 time bars
