Recommendation for resource planning control?

[Andreas]

Which control do you recommend?

I have several people, each is allowed to work x hours per day.

There are a bunch of tasks that can take any amount of time.

Tasks do not have a specific starttime, only a day, duration and person. Tasks have no dependency on each other.

I want to display the tasks per day per person, and also allow dragging tasks between people and days.

Goal is to have tasks not be assigned so that a person has to work too much.

I thought of scheduler and chart so far, neither of which seems to be a perfect fit.

Many thanks!

[Arulpriya Ramalingam]

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for using Syncfusion products.

We would suggest that you to use the WPF SfScheduler to achive your requirement which have support to add multiple resources. We already provided the details in our user guide and please refer to the below UG link for further information.

UG link: https://help.syncfusion.com/wpf/scheduler/resource-grouping#assigning-resources-to-appointments

Regards,
Arulpriya

[Andreas]

Dear Arulpriya,

many thanks for your reply!

We cannot host WPF controls within our WinForms application. We are using Microsoft ReportViewer control, which behaves crazy with the dpi-awareness that comes with WPF. (Which is a pain in itself, since high resolution monitor users often have 125 or 150% scaling and that breaks ReportViewer display.) Windows 10 has per-thread dpi awareness, but not all users use Windows 10.

Best

Andreas

[Arulpriya Ramalingam]

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for the update.

We are not suggesting you to host WPF controls in winforms application and instead we suggest you to use WPF platform to create your desktop application which will be more efficient to achieve your requirements.

Pleaseget back to us if you need further assistance.

Regards,
Arulpriya

[Andreas]

Well, I am grateful that you take the time to respond.

Still, I had to laugh.

You suggest to spend 1-2 man-years meaning very roughly 100k$ to switch from WinForms to WPF (medium sized application of maybe 10 man-years), all the while being very slow to ship updates because a lot of resources are bound to the migration, risking to go out of business?

:)

WPF is nice but on the far horizon.

Anywho, I will continue searching with what is available on WinForms, there is a scheduler control too.

Thank you!

[Arulpriya Ramalingam]

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for the update.

We could understand the use case and we have already logged a feature report to implement the requirement from our source level. It will be included in any of our upcoming releases and we will update the release details once it is rolled out.

feedback link: https://www.syncfusion.com/feedback/7801/multiple-resource-support-in-schedulecontrol

Please get back to us if you need any further assistance.

Regards,

Arulpriya