The Appearance settings give you the ability to control and update the styling of your Vizlib Gantt visualisation.
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General
In the General tab (Figure 1) you can choose to show or hide a title, add title details using the expression editors and choose to Show details in the chart descriptions and dimensions.
Figure 1: General
Alternate States
Alternate States has settings related to adding the object to master visualizations (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Alternate States
Groups Layout
The Groups Layout settings (Figure 3) allow you to display headers with Show Headers in Parent Groups, display order numbers in the event bars with Show Order Number, and enable a display to Expand all.
Figure 3: Groups Layout
Figure 4: Show Headers in Parent Groups
Figure 5: Show Order Number
Group Header Color
Group Header Styling uses the Color by setting to change the group header color, choosing between color by Expression (using a color palette) Group, or Hierarchy Group (choosing from a selection of color styles). You can also choose to Reverse Colors, or set Persistent Colors (the color then does not change when it's selected). Figure 6 shows a color by Group setting, and Figure 7 shows an example of color by Expression.
Figure 6: Group Header Color
Figure 7: Group Header Color
Event Bar Styling
Event Bar Styling setting control the appearance of the event bars (Figure 8). You can enable Bar labels, display them inside or outside the event bar, set the Font Size, the Event Bars Label Color, and a Character Limit. You can display a tag by selecting Show event tag on bar, set the Font Size, the Event tag color, Event tag position, display progress with Show Progress value in event and
Figure 8: Event Bar Styling
You can also use the Color by setting to apply a color scheme by Individual Event (using a color style palette), Expression (using an expression editor) or Event Groups (setting the Opacity of the event bars using the slider). Figure 9 shows a Color by Expression, where you can also Reverse colors or select Persistent colors.
Figure 9: Color by Expression
You can also choose to show Event Pins, setting the level of Pin Opacity, set the Event Bar Radius and choose to Enable Bar Shadow (Figure 10).
Figure 10: Event Pins
Figure 11 shows an example of coloring by Individual Event.
Figure 11: Color by Individual Event
Milestone Styling
Milestone Styling contains settings to apply a color scheme to any milestones in the chart (Figure 12). You can choose to Color by Individual Milestone (choosing a color scheme), Expression (entering an expression or choosing a color) or by Milestone Parent (color depends on the event the milestone is linked to.
Figure 12: Milestone Styling