Column headers

MarkGardner

Is it possible to customize column headers to maybe display something like this, to include 2 week sprints and week numbers ?

|                         December 2024                       |                     January 2025                 |                February 2025             |
|          Sprint <text>       |          Sprint <text>       |          Sprint <text>       |          Sprint <text>       |          Sprint <text>       
|    Week 48  |  Week 49  |  Week 50  | Week 51  |    Week 1  |  Week 2  |  Week 3  | Week 4  |  Week 5  |  Week 6  |  Week 7

Marta

Are we talking about Gantt or about Grid ?

In case of the Gantt widget, its not really possible now
Scale can contain multiple lines, with different time steps, but currently is limited to the known time units ( year/quarter/month/week/day/hour )

On other hand we are open to the idea to make it more customizable, we can provide a way to configure your own time units, so it would be possible to use something like

Please beware the code below will not work in the current version of Gantt and just some ideas how it can be in the next version

registerDateUnit("sprint", {
     start: date => get_sprint_start(date),
     end: date => get_sprint_end(date),
     isSame: (a,b) => compare_sprints(a,b),
});

const scales = const scales = [
	{ unit: "month", step: 1, format: "MMMM yyy" },
        { unit: "sprint", step: 1, format: v => get_sprint_number(v) },
	{ unit: "day", step: 1, format: "d", css: dayStyle },
];

it is a bit verbose, but will allow dynamic scales.
another option, add a fixed set of dates for scales ( simple configuration, but no dynamic scales )

const scales = const scales = [
	{ unit: "month", step: 1, format: "MMMM yyy" },
        { unit: "predefined", data:[
             { label:"sprint 12", start, end },
             { label:"sprint 13", start, end }
         ]},
	{ unit: "day", step: 1, format: "d", css: dayStyle },
];

What do you think about such options ?

MarkGardner

Hi Marta, I think either option sounds good, sprint lengths can be different over the course of the year, and not exactly map to a fixed length like two weeks, I think being able to add customizable lines within the scales would be a good feature, I am sure more people would use it, or ask for it if it were not available.

Thanks for the response