Task
In this help article you can find helpful information on the different types of RadGantt tasks, their properties and methods.
Task Types
Depending on the TaskType property, the Task can be one of three types:
Regular Task - regular task which can have assigned resources, links to predecessors, start date, end date,duration and percentage of completion.
Summary - a grouping of child tasks. The Summary has a Start and End determined by the earliest Start and latest End of its child tasks. The percentage of completion is calculated based on the percentage of each child task. The Summary does not have links to predecessors, and can not be referenced as such by other tasks.
Milestone - a regular task with zero duration.
Task Properties
The table below demonstrates some general properties of the Task object.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dependencies | Telerik.Web.UI.Gantt.DependencyCollection | Gets a collection of dependencies to other tasks. |
| Description | string | Gets or sets the task description. |
| Duration | TimeSpan | Gets a value indicating the duration of the task. |
| End | DateTime | Gets or sets the end time of the task. |
| Expanded | bool | Gets or sets a value that determines whether the tasks is expanded in the TreeList. |
| ID | object | Gets or sets Task ID. |
| OrderID | object | Gets or sets OrderID field used by sort operations. |
| Owner | Telerik.Web.UI.Gantt.IGantt | Gets or sets the Gantt that is owner of the task. |
| ParentID | object | Gets or sets pointer to the parent task using its ID. |
| PercentComplete | decimal | Gets a value in percent indicating the task completion. |
| Predecessors | Telerik.Web.UI.Gantt.DependencyCollection | Gets a collection of the dependencies that are predecessors of the task. |
| Start | DateTime | Gets or sets the start time of the task. |
| Successors | Telerik.Web.UI.Gantt.DependencyCollection | Gets a collection of the dependencies that are successors of the task. |
| Summary | bool | Gets a boolean value indicating whether the task is a summary task. |
| Tasks | Telerik.Web.UI.Gantt.TaskCollection | Gets all children tasks of the current task. |
| TaskType | Telerik.Web.UI.Gantt.TaskType enumeration | Gets a value that determines the type of the task. |
| Title | string | Gets or sets a value that determines the title of the task. |
Task Methods
The table below shows the publicly accessible methods of the Task object.
| Method | Parameters | Return type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| GetData | none | System.Collections.Specialized.IOrderedDictionary | Returns the Task data as an OrdrederDictionary. |
| LoadFromDictionary | System.Collections.IDictionary | void | Loads the Task data from a Dictionary. |