Project Settings Configuration Overview

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic gives an overview of the xamGantt™ ProjectSettings class and its configurable aspects.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic	Purpose
xamGantt Overview	This topic describes basic conceptual information about xamGantt, project, tasks and other xamGantt elements.
xamGantt in Detail	This group of topics describes the xamGantt control in details.
Project Configuration Overview	This topic gives an overview of the xamGantt Project class and its configurable aspects.

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This topic contains the following sections:

Introduction
Project Settings Configuration Properties Summary
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Introduction

ProjectSettings class summary

The ProjectSettings class provides settings that affect various aspects of the Project.

These configurable aspects include:

the scheduling engine’s behavior (for example, AlwaysHonorTaskConstraintDates, ShouldCalculateAfterEachEdit properties)
how entered durations are converted to the actual time (for example, DaysPerMonth, MinutesPerDay, MinutesPerWeek properties)
critical path calculation (for example, CriticalSlackLimit, ShouldCalculateMultipleCriticalPaths properties)
the project’s visual representation of its information (for example, DateStringFormat property).

Most of the ProjectSettings’s properties match those exposed in Microsoft Project 2010.

Project Settings Configuration Properties Summary

Project settings configuration properties summary chart

The following table lists some of the main configurable aspects of the xamGantt ProjectSettings.

Configurable aspect	Details	Properties
Configuring the tasks constraint dates priority over the tasks dependencies	Returns or sets a Boolean value indicating whether the tasks constraint dates have a higher priority than the tasks relationships.	AlwaysHonorTaskConstraintDates
Configuring whether new resources are allowed to be added to the project	Returns or sets a Boolean value indicating whether a new ProjectResource should be added to the Project ResourceItems when entering an unrecognized name into the task resources.	AutoAddNewResources
Configuring the critical slack limit in days	Returns or sets the number of days of slack under which a task is considered critical when calculating the project critical path.	CriticalSlackLimit
Configuring the dates format	Returns or sets a `DateTime` string format used to indicate how dates render within the control.	DateStringFormat
Configuring the number of days per month	Returns or sets a value indicating the number of days used when calculating a month unit (for example, when a ProjectDuration has a Format of Months.)	DaysPerMonth
Configuring the duration format	Returns or sets the task’s duration format.	DurationFormat
Configuring the first day of week	Returns or sets the day used as the first day of the week.	FirstDayOfWeek
Configuring if the project root task is visible in the xamGantt control user interface	Returns or sets a value of type Boolean indicating if the project displays its RootTask. By default, the project root task is not visible.	IsRootTaskVisible
Configuring the minutes per day	Returns or sets a value indicating the number of minutes used when calculating a day unit (for example when a `ProjectDuration` has a Format of Days.)	MinutesPerDay
Configuring the minutes per week	Returns or sets a value indicating the number of minutes used when calculating a week unit (for example when a `ProjectDuration` has a Format of Weeks.	MinutesPerWeek
Configuring if the newly created tasks are manually scheduled by default.	Returns or sets a value of type Boolean indicating whether newly created tasks are manually scheduled. By default, the newly created tasks are manually scheduled.	NewTasksAreManual
Configuring if the project is recalculated on every change to the tasks	Returns or sets a Boolean value indicating whether the scheduling engine recalculates after each project change. By default, the project recalculates on every task change.	ShouldCalculateAfterEachEdit
Configuring the calculation of multiple critical paths	Returns or sets a Boolean value indicating if the scheduling engine calculates a critical path for each independent network of tasks.	ShouldCalculateMultipleCriticalPaths
Configuring if the manual tasks are updated on changes in their predecessors or successors	Returns or sets a Boolean value indicating if the start, finish, and duration of the manually scheduled tasks should be updated when predecessors or successors change. By default, the manual tasks are updated.	ShouldUpdateManualTasksWhenEditingLinks

Topic	Purpose
Showing the Project Summary Task	This topic explains how to display the project’s summary task using the xamGantt control.
Configuring Critical Slack Limit	This topic explains how to configure the critical slack limit for a project task using the xamGantt control.

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