How to customize the timescale label format?

Description:

This article describes how to customize the Timescale label format in UWP Gantt.

Solution:

This requirement can be achieved by setting the corresponding label format property in timescale tier. Each interval type having separate label format property.

For example, if the IntervalType is Weeks, then need to set the label format in the WeeksLabelFormat property.

Gantt supports framework supported formats and some inbuild formats.

Inbuilt format strings

The following code sample illustrates the usage of WeeksLabelFormat property usage

[XAML]

<gantt:TimescaleSettings.TopTier>
    <gantt:TimescaleTier IntervalType="Weeks" WeeksLabelFormat="ddd MM/dd/yy"/>
</gantt:TimescaleSettings.TopTier>

[C#]

this.Gantt.TimescaleSettings.TopTier.IntervalType = IntervalType.Weeks;
this.Gantt.TimescaleSettings.TopTier.WeeksLabelFormat = "ddd MM/dd/yy";

The following screenshot is the output of the above code.

Please find the required sample from the link.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to customize the timescale label format.

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