Task Types

The Gantt control supports three task types:

• Regular tasks
• Task groups
• Milestones

When the has children, it is treated as a task group.

Regular Task

Behavior:

• percent complete (e.g. 80%)
• drag and drop moving allowed horizontally (to change the start date but keeping the duration)
• drag and drop resizing allowed (to change the duration)
• custom text in the row header columns (on the left)

Task Group

The task type is set to "Parent" when it has children.

Behavior (task group mode set to "Auto"):

• the start and end calculated automatically
• drag and drop moving disabled
• drag and drop resizing disabled
• percent complete bar supported

Behavior (task group mode set to "Auto"):

• the start and end set using task properties, can be set independently of the children
• drag and drop moving allowed (horizontally)
• drag and drop resizing allowed
• percent complete bar supported

Milestone

Behavior:

• end date is ignored
• drag and drop moving allowed