Set Different Colors for the Gantt Tasks

Environment

Product

Gantt for Blazor

Description

I want to set different colors for the Gantt tasks. I store the colors in my data source. How to apply the colors from my data source to the rendered Gantt tasks?

Solution

Follow these steps to apply the desired colors to the Gantt tasks:

1. Use a Task Template to override the default task rendering.
2. In the template, declare a wrapping element that will contain all the task details. Specify the desired task information inside.
3. Add an attribute style="background-color" to the wrapper and set the desired color. If your model has a color field that you want to use, you may get its value from the template's context.
4. Use custom CSS to remove the default padding of the task template element (<div class="k-task-template">) and adjust the custom wrapper, so it covers the whole task element. This ensures that the background color covers the whole task.

Set Different Colors for the Gantt Tasks

<TelerikGantt Data="@Data"
              Width="900px"
              Height="600px"
              IdField="Id"
              ParentIdField="ParentId"
              RowHeight="60"
              OnUpdate="@UpdateItem"
              OnDelete="@DeleteItem">
    <TaskTemplate>
        @{
            CurrTask = context;
        }
        <div class="wrapper" style="background-color:@CurrTask.Color">
            <div class="task-title">@CurrTask.Title</div>
            <div class="task-assignee">Assignee: @CurrTask.Assignee</div>
            <div class="progress" style="width:@(CurrTask.PercentComplete * 100)%"></div>
        </div>
    </TaskTemplate>
    <GanttColumns>
        <GanttColumn Field="Title"
                     Expandable="true"
                     Width="160px"
                     Title="Task Title">
        </GanttColumn>
        <GanttColumn Field="Start"
                     Width="100px"
                     DisplayFormat="{0:d}">
        </GanttColumn>
        <GanttColumn Field="End"
                     Width="100px"
                     DisplayFormat="{0:d}">
        </GanttColumn>
    </GanttColumns>
    <GanttViews>
        <GanttWeekView></GanttWeekView>
    </GanttViews>
</TelerikGantt>

@code {
    private List<FlatModel> Data { get; set; }

    private FlatModel CurrTask { get; set; } = new FlatModel();    

    private int LastId { get; set; } = 1;

    private List<string> Colors = new List<string>()
    {
        "lightgreen",
        "orange",
        "lightblue",
        "cyan",
        "lightcoral",
        "lightpink"
    };

    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        Data = new List<FlatModel>();
        var random = new Random();

        for (int i = 1; i < 6; i++)
        {
            var newItem = new FlatModel()
                {
                    Id = LastId,
                    Title = "Task  " + i.ToString(),
                    Start = new DateTime(2021, 7, 5 + i),
                    End = new DateTime(2021, 7, 11 + i),
                    PercentComplete = Math.Round(random.NextDouble(), 2),
                    Color = Colors[i]
                };

            Data.Add(newItem);
            var parentId = LastId;
            LastId++;

            for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
            {
                Data.Add(new FlatModel()
                    {
                        Id = LastId,
                        ParentId = parentId,
                        Title = "    Task " + i + " : " + j.ToString(),
                        Start = new DateTime(2021, 7, 5 + j),
                        End = new DateTime(2021, 7, 6 + i + j),
                        PercentComplete = Math.Round(random.NextDouble(), 2),
                        Assignee = "    Employee " + j,
                        Color = Colors[j]
                    });

                LastId++;
            }
        }

        base.OnInitialized();
    }

    private void UpdateItem(GanttUpdateEventArgs args)
    {
        var item = args.Item as FlatModel;

        var foundItem = Data.FirstOrDefault(i => i.Id.Equals(item.Id));

        if (foundItem != null)
        {
            foundItem.Title = item.Title;
            foundItem.Start = item.Start;
            foundItem.End = item.End;
            foundItem.PercentComplete = item.PercentComplete;
        }
    }

    private void DeleteItem(GanttDeleteEventArgs args)
    {
        var item = Data.FirstOrDefault(i => i.Id.Equals((args.Item as FlatModel).Id));

        RemoveChildRecursive(item);
    }

    private void RemoveChildRecursive(FlatModel item)
    {
        var children = Data.Where(i => item.Id.Equals(i.ParentId)).ToList();

        foreach (var child in children)
        {
            RemoveChildRecursive(child);
        }

        Data.Remove(item);
    }

    class FlatModel
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public int? ParentId { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public double PercentComplete { get; set; }
        public DateTime Start { get; set; }
        public DateTime End { get; set; }
        public string Assignee { get; set; }
        public string Color { get; set; }
    }
}

<style>
    .k-task-single {
        background-color: none;
    }

    .k-task-actions {
        position: absolute;
        right: 0;
        top: 14px;
    }

    .k-task-template {
        padding: 0px;
    }

    .k-task-content {
        display: block;
    }

    .wrapper {
        padding-top: 4px;
        padding-bottom: 4px;
        padding-left: 8px;
        padding-right: 8px;
        border-radius: 4px
    }

    .task-title {
        font-size: 18px;
        font-weight: bold;
        border-bottom: 1px solid;
    }

    .task-assignee {
        font-style: italic;
    }

    .progress {
        position: absolute;
        left: 0;
        bottom: 0;
        height: 4px;
        background: rgba(252, 98, 87, .7);
    }
</style>

See Also

• Gantt Task Overview
• Gantt Task Template
• Live Gantt Demos
• Gantt API Reference