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User Notifications shown at Conflict Resolution (xamGantt)

Topic Overview

Purpose

Certain invalid task values, project settings or rescheduling operations can cause conflicts. xamGantt™ resolves those conflicts and displays an appropriate notification to users. This topic describes the available user notifications which occur upon conflict resolution.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic Purpose

This topic introduces the visual elements in the grid and chart sections of the xamGantt control.

Overview of User Notifications shown at Conflict Resolution

Overview

The following table summarizes the xamGantt conflict resolution user notifications. Additional details follow below:

Notification Description

Project summary task cannot be deleted

This notification is shown when the Delete Project Root Task conflict occurs.

Dependency Circularity Warnings

Those notifications occurs when the Dependency Circularity conflict occurs.

Resource not in the resource collection

This notification is shown when the Missing Resource Warning conflict occurs.

You can find information about the conflicts in the xamGantt Conflict Resolution topic.

Project summary task cannot be deleted.

Users can try to delete the project summary task. This is not allowed and xamGantt will display a warning message.

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Dependency Circularities

If there are dependent tasks and users try to change their references, this may result in creating a circularity chain. There are different warning tooltips displayed depending on the type of circularity chain:

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Task cannot be predecessor/successor of itself.

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Task cannot be a predecessor and successor of another task.

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This warning tooltip is shown when a more complicated circular dependency chain may occur.

Resource not in resource collection

When the AutoAddNewResources property of project settings is set to false and a non-existing resource is going to be added to a task, xamGantt will not allow that and will show a validation tool-tip.

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Topics

The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.

Topic Purpose

This topic describes the xamGantt Conflict Resolution.

This topic describes the user interactions that can be performed in the chart section of the xamGantt control.

This topic describes the available user interactions using the xamGantt control’s grid section.

This topic describes the editors in some of the important grid columns in the xamGantt control.