Syncfusion React Gantt Chart

The Syncfusion React Gantt Chart (GanttComponent) is a powerful project management component for visualizing, scheduling, and managing tasks over a timeline. It supports auto/manual scheduling, task dependencies, resource planning, interactive editing, Excel/PDF export, and rich customization.

When to Use This Skill

• Implementing a Gantt chart or project timeline in a React app
• Configuring task scheduling (auto, manual, custom modes)
• Setting up task dependencies (FS, SS, FF, SF) and constraints (ASAP, MSO, FNET, etc.)
• Binding local or remote data to the Gantt (local array, DataManager, UrlAdaptor, Ajax)
• Customizing taskbars, labels, milestones, and baselines
• Configuring resources and resource views (including multi-taskbar)
• Enabling editing (dialog, cell, taskbar drag) with validation rules
• Setting up column resize, reorder, freeze, or column menu
• Configuring WBS codes, tree column icons, or serial number columns
• Setting up filtering, sorting, or selection
• Scrolling to specific dates or controlling scroll position programmatically
• Exporting Gantt to Excel or PDF
• Handling Gantt events and enabling advanced features (undo/redo, virtual scroll, critical path, etc.)
• Globalization, localization, and RTL support

Documentation and Navigation Guide

Getting Started

📄 Read: references/getting-started.md

• Installation and package dependencies
• Vite / CRA project setup
• CSS theme imports (all 14 required packages)
• Basic GanttComponent with taskFields mapping
• Module injection guide (all available services)
• gridLines prop ('Both' / 'Horizontal' / 'Vertical' / 'None')
• First render walkthrough with minimal example, output summary, and common gotchas

Data Binding

📄 Read: references/data-binding.md

• Local array data binding
• Remote / AJAX data binding with DataManager
• Self-referential flat data
• taskFields configuration (id, name, startDate, endDate, duration, progress, child)
• Custom field mapping
• UrlAdaptor for server-side CRUD (url + batchUrl)
• RemoteSaveAdaptor for local rendering with server persistence
• Sending additional parameters to server via Query.addParams() in load event
• Binding with Ajax class (manual fetch)
• Load child on demand (loadChildOnDemand={false}, hasChildMapping)
• Handling HTTP errors with actionFailure event

Task Scheduling

📄 Read: references/task-scheduling.md

• Auto, Manual, and Custom scheduling modes (taskMode)
• Unscheduled tasks (duration-only, date-only, none)
• Project start date and end date configuration
• How scheduling mode affects parent task calculation
• Switching between modes dynamically

Task Dependency

📄 Read: references/task-dependency.md

• Dependency types: Finish-to-Start (FS), Start-to-Start (SS), Finish-to-Finish (FF), Start-to-Finish (SF)
• Mapping taskFields.dependency in data source (string format: "2FS", "2FS+3d", "2SS+2h")
• Multiple predecessors per task (comma-separated: "2FS,3FS")
• Offset values with units: day, hour, minute (e.g., "2FS+3h", "2FS-1d")
• Drawing dependencies via UI (drag from taskbar connection points)
• Programmatic dependency management (addPredecessor, removePredecessor, updatePredecessor)
• Connector line customization (connectorLineWidth, connectorLineBackground)
• Predecessor Offset Synchronization
• autoUpdatePredecessorOffset={true} — recalculate offsets on load to account for calendar rules (weekends, holidays)
• autoUpdatePredecessorOffset={false} — display original offsets even if not matching rendered lines (visual inconsistency possible)
• Offset Updates During Editing
• updateOffsetOnTaskbarEdit={true} — auto-recalculate offsets when dragging taskbars (default)
• updateOffsetOnTaskbarEdit={false} — preserve offsets; manual update required via dependency dialog
• Dependency Validation Modes (in actionBegin event with requestType === 'validateLinkedTask')
• respectLink={true} — revert invalid edits to maintain dependency integrity
• removeLink={true} — remove conflicting dependencies to allow edits
• preserveLinkWithEditing={true} — update offsets to maintain links (default mode)
• Validation Dialog — disable all modes to show user-choice dialog (cancel edit, remove link, adjust offset)
• Parent Dependencies — allowParentDependency={true} allows cross-parent dependencies; false restricts to siblings only
• Show/Hide Dependencies Dynamically — toggle .e-gantt-dependency-view-container CSS visibility
• Disable Validation — enablePredecessorValidation={false} disables auto-date validation based on predecessor links

Task Constraints

📄 Read: references/task-constraints.md

• Eight constraint types: ASAP, ALAP, MSO, MFO, SNET, SNLT, FNET, FNLT
• Mapping taskFields.constraintType and taskFields.constraintDate
• How constraints interact with dependencies and taskMode
• Editing constraints via dialog
• Validation and conflict handling

Timeline and Zooming

📄 Read: references/timeline.md

• timelineViewMode quick presets (Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year)
• Top tier and bottom tier independent configuration (unit, format, count, formatter)
• Combining timeline cells using count (merge multiple units per cell)
• Custom timeline cell formatting using formatter (tier + mode aware)
• Timeline view dates with viewStartDate / viewEndDate (lock visible range)
• weekStartDay — controls which day starts a week column (0=Sun, 1=Mon…)
• Automatic timescale updates using updateTimescaleView
• Dynamic timeline mode change at runtime (update timelineViewMode + refresh())
• Timeline cell tooltip visibility using showTooltip
• Timeline template customization using timelineTemplate ({ date, value, tier })
• Timeline navigation using previousTimeSpan() / nextTimeSpan()
• Zooming with toolbar (ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomToFit)
• Customizing zoom steps with zoomingLevels (ZoomTimelineSettings)
• Programmatic zoom methods: zoomIn(), zoomOut(), fitToProject()
• Timeline cell width using timelineUnitSize
• Weekend handling:
• Highlight weekends with highlightWeekends={true}
• Hide weekends using timelineSettings.showWeekend (with noted limitations)

Columns

📄 Read: references/columns.md

• Column types overview (tree column, WBS, custom columns)
• Auto-generated columns (omit ColumnsDirective)
• Column rendering with valueAccessor (custom display values, concatenation)
• Expression columns (calculated values via valueAccessor)
• Display serial numbers via rowDataBound
• Tree column configuration (treeColumnIndex)
• Customize expand/collapse icons (CSS override)
• Customize indentation via queryCellInfo
• collapseAllParentTasks — collapse all on load
• taskFields.expandState — per-row initial expand/collapse
• Persist expand/collapse state in localStorage
• WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) column
• enableWBS + enableAutoWbsUpdate APIs
• Manual WBS with taskFields.wbsPredecessor
• Column headers, format, and alignment
• headerTemplate for custom header rendering
• Header text wrapping (treeGrid.textWrapSettings.wrapMode)
• Dynamic header text update (getColumnByField + refreshHeader)
• Column templates (custom cell rendering) and editTemplate
• Column spanning and frozen columns (frozenColumns, inject Freeze)

Column Interactions

📄 Read: references/column-interactions.md

• Column resizing (allowResizing, inject Resize)
• Restrict with minWidth / maxWidth per column
• Prevent resize per column (allowResizing={false})
• Resize modes: Normal vs Auto (resizeSettings.mode)
• Programmatic resize (reorderColumns, refreshColumns)
• Resize events: resizeStart, resizing, resizeStop
• Column reorder (allowReordering, inject Reorder)
• Disable reorder per column (allowReordering={false})
• Programmatic reorder: reorderColumns, reorderColumnByIndex, reorderColumnByTargetIndex
• Reorder drag events: columnDragStart, columnDrag, columnDrop
• Column menu (showColumnMenu, inject ColumnMenu)
• Built-in items: SortAscending, SortDescending, AutoFit, AutoFitAll, ColumnChooser, Filter
• Custom column menu items + columnMenuClick event
• Disable per column (showColumnMenu={false})
• Toggling column visibility (show/hide columns)

Rows

📄 Read: references/rows.md

• Row drag-and-drop (reorder and reparent tasks)
• Indent and outdent (change task hierarchy)
• Row spanning via queryCellInfo event
• QueryCellInfoEventArgs with rowSpan, colSpan, cell, data, column
• Horizontal spanning (colSpan) and vertical spanning (rowSpan)
• Row height configuration
• Row styling via rowDataBound
• Expand and collapse rows programmatically

Managing Tasks

📄 Read: references/managing-tasks.md

• Adding new tasks (toolbar, context menu, programmatic addRecord())
• Editing tasks — dialog edit (mode: 'Dialog'), cell edit (mode: 'Auto'), taskbar drag
• Deleting tasks (toolbar, deleteRow(), showDeleteConfirmDialog)
• Taskbar drag editing: move, resize right edge, progress handle, dependency drawing
• Splitting and merging tasks (taskFields.segments, splitTask(), mergeTask())
• Cell edit types (editType): stringedit, numericedit, datepickeredit, datetimepickeredit, dropdownedit, booleanedit
• edit.params for min/max/step/format/dataSource per column
• Customizing add/edit dialog fields (addDialogFields, editDialogFields)
• Server-side CRUD with UrlAdaptor (url + batchUrl)
• Server receives added, changed, deleted arrays in the batch request body
• Column-level validation rules (validationRules on ColumnDirective)
• Built-in rules: required, min, max, minLength, date, regex
• Custom validator functions ([fn, 'message'] callback pattern)

Filtering and Searching

📄 Read: references/filtering-searching.md

• Basic column filtering (allowFiltering={true}, inject Filter)
• Filter hierarchy modes: Parent, Child, Both, None
• Filter menu (string, number, date operators) and Excel-like checklist filter
• Toolbar search box (searchSettings: fields, operator, ignoreCase)
• Initial filter state on load (filterSettings.columns array)
• Programmatic filter API: filterByColumn(), clearFiltering()
• Custom multi-column filter predicates

Sorting

📄 Read: references/sorting.md

• Single-column and multi-column sorting
• Initial sort state (sortSettings)
• Custom sort comparers
• Programmatic sorting API

Selection

📄 Read: references/selection.md

• Row selection modes (single, multiple)
• Cell selection
• Keyboard-based selection
• Programmatic selection API (selectRow, selectCell)

Taskbar, Labels, and Markers

📄 Read: references/taskbar-labels-markers.md

• Taskbar template (custom rendering)
• Parent taskbar and milestone customization
• Tooltip settings and templates (tooltipSettings for taskbar, connector line, baseline, timeline)
• Disable/hide tooltips for specific UI targets using beforeTooltipRender
• Left, right, and task label configuration
• Data markers / indicators
• Event markers (deadlines, holidays on timeline)
• Baseline rendering
• Critical path highlighting

Resources

📄 Read: references/resources.md

• Defining resource collection (resources property)
• Assigning resources to tasks (taskFields.resourceInfo) — single or multiple with custom units
• Resource view layout (viewType='ResourceView', resource groups)
• Multi-taskbar (enableMultiTaskbar={true}) — multiple taskbars per collapsed resource row
• Over-allocation highlighting (showOverAllocatedTasks={true})
• Resource unit and work fields (resourceFields.unit, resourceFields.group)
• Custom resource taskbar styling via queryTaskbarInfo

Toolbar and Context Menu

📄 Read: references/toolbar-context-menu.md

• Built-in toolbar items: Add, Edit, Delete, Update, Cancel, Search, ExpandAll, CollapseAll, Indent, Outdent, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomToFit, CriticalPath, ExcelExport, CsvExport, PdfExport, ColumnChooser, Undo, Redo, SplitTask, MergeTask
• Required services per toolbar item (e.g. Undo/Redo → UndoRedo, SplitTask → Edit)
• Custom toolbar buttons (ItemModel) and toolbarClick handler
• Default context menu items including SplitTask, MergeTask, Convert, DeleteDependency
• Custom context menu items, contextMenuClick, contextMenuOpen (args.hideItems)
• Enabling/disabling toolbar items dynamically

Excel Export

📄 Read: references/excel-export.md

• Basic Excel export
• Export properties and customization
• Exporting multiple Gantt charts to a single Excel workbook
• Custom data source export

PDF Export

📄 Read: references/pdf-export.md

• Basic PDF export
• Customizing PDF (fonts, columns, styles)
• Header and footer configuration
• Page settings (orientation, size)

Holidays, Working Time & Timezone

📄 Read: references/holidays-working-time.md

• Defining holidays (holidays prop, HolidayModel, DayMarkers service)
• Work week configuration (workWeek, includeWeekend)
• Daily working time (dayWorkingTime)
• Effort-based scheduling (taskFields.work, workUnit, task types: FixedWork / FixedDuration / FixedUnit)
• Timezone support (timezone prop, IANA timezone strings)

Splitter

📄 Read: references/splitter.md

• Position-based split (splitterSettings.position — percentage or pixels)
• Column-based split (splitterSettings.columnIndex)
• View mode (splitterSettings.view — Default / Grid / Chart)
• Programmatic resize (setSplitterPosition())
• Splitter events (splitterResizeStart, splitterResizing, splitterResized)

Scrolling

📄 Read: references/scrolling.md

• Setting width and height for scrollbar control
• Responsive container (width='100%', height='100%' with CSS parent height)
• Scroll to a date (scrollToDate('MM/dd/yyyy'))
• Set vertical scroll position (ganttChartModule.scrollObject.setScrollTop(px))

Virtual Scroll

📄 Read: references/virtual-scroll.md

• Row virtualization (enableVirtualization={true}, VirtualScroll service)
• Timeline virtualization (enableTimelineVirtualization={true}, requires projectStartDate / projectEndDate)
• Combining row + timeline virtualization
• Accessing filtered record count with virtual scroll (treeGrid.filterModule.filteredResult)
• Virtual scroll limitations (browser memory, cell selection, pixel height, expand state)

Undo / Redo

📄 Read: references/undo-redo.md

• Enable undo/redo (enableUndoRedo, UndoRedo service)
• undoRedoActions — full list of trackable actions and required services
• undoRedoStepsCount — history stack size
• Toolbar 'Undo' / 'Redo' buttons and Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y keyboard shortcuts
• Programmatic undo() / redo() via component ref

State Persistence, Immutable Mode & Loading

📄 Read: references/state-persistence.md

• State persistence (enablePersistence={true}, unique id prop, localStorage)
• Resetting persisted state (change id or clear localStorage entry)
• Immutable mode (enableImmutableMode={true}, requires isPrimaryKey={true})
• Loading animation (loadingIndicator.indicatorType: 'Spinner' or 'Shimmer')
• Manual spinner control (showSpinner() / hideSpinner())

Localization and RTL

📄 Read: references/localization-rtl.md

• Setting locale (locale prop)
• Loading custom translations (L10n.load() with 'gantt' namespace keys)
• Gantt locale key reference (all translatable UI strings)
• RTL support (enableRtl={true})
• Column date formatting (format='yMd', format='dd/MM/yyyy')
• Column number formatting (format='C2', format='N2', format='P0')

Programmatic Methods

📄 Read: references/gantt-methods.md

• Column utilities: autoFitColumns()
• Edit control: cancelEdit(), openAddDialog(), openEditDialog()
• Task management: deleteRecord(), convertToMilestone(), changeTaskMode(), updateRecordByID(), updateRecordByIndex(), updateTaskId(), updateDataSource(), updateProjectDates()
• Toolbar control: enableItems()
• Expand/Collapse: expandByIndex(), collapseByIndex()
• Undo/Redo stacks: clearUndoCollection(), clearRedoCollection(), getUndoActions(), getRedoActions()
• Data retrieval: getCurrentViewData(), getRecordByID(), getTaskByUniqueID(), getTaskInfo(), getTaskbarHeight(), getExpandedRecords(), getGanttColumns(), getGridColumns()
• Formatting helpers: getDurationString(), getWorkString()
• DOM access: getRowByID(), getRowByIndex()
• Sorting: removeSortColumn()
• Selection: selectCells()
• Row reorder: reorderRows()
• Scrolling: scrollToTask(), updateChartScrollOffset()

Events

📄 Read: references/events.md

• Lifecycle events (load, created, dataBound)
• Task editing events (actionBegin, actionComplete) with requestType reference table
• Taskbar events: taskbarEditing, taskbarEdited, taskbarClick
• Row expand/collapse events: expanding, collapsing, expanded, collapsed
• Selection events: rowSelected, rowDeselected, cellSelected, cellDeselected
• Export events: excelExportComplete, pdfExportComplete
• Column interaction events: resizeStart, resizing, resizeStop, columnDragStart, columnDrag, columnDrop
• Event cancellation patterns (args.cancel = true)
• Complete all-events quick reference table (30+ events)

Quick Start Example

import * as React from 'react';
import { GanttComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective, Inject, Edit, Toolbar, Selection } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-gantt';
import { TaskFieldsModel, EditSettingsModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';

// In App.css:
// @import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-gantt/styles/tailwind3.css";
// (plus base, buttons, calendars, dropdowns, grids, inputs, layouts,
//  lists, navigations, notifications, popups, richtexteditor, treegrid)

const data = [
  {
    TaskID: 1, TaskName: 'Project Initiation',
    StartDate: new Date('04/02/2024'), EndDate: new Date('04/21/2024'),
    subtasks: [
      { TaskID: 2, TaskName: 'Identify Site Location', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2024'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50 },
      { TaskID: 3, TaskName: 'Perform Soil Test', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2024'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50, Predecessor: '2' },
      { TaskID: 4, TaskName: 'Soil Test Approval', StartDate: new Date('04/08/2024'), Duration: 0, Predecessor: '3FS', Progress: 50 },
    ]
  }
];

const taskFields: TaskFieldsModel = {
  id: 'TaskID',
  name: 'TaskName',
  startDate: 'StartDate',
  endDate: 'EndDate',
  duration: 'Duration',
  progress: 'Progress',
  dependency: 'Predecessor',
  child: 'subtasks',
};

const editSettings: EditSettingsModel = { allowEditing: true, allowAdding: true, allowDeleting: true, allowTaskbarEditing: true };

function App() {
  return (
    <GanttComponent
      dataSource={data}
      taskFields={taskFields}
      editSettings={editSettings}
      toolbar={['Add', 'Edit', 'Delete', 'Cancel', 'Update', 'Search', 'ZoomIn', 'ZoomOut', 'ZoomToFit']}
      height="450px"
    >
      <ColumnsDirective>
        <ColumnDirective field="TaskID" width="80" />
        <ColumnDirective field="TaskName" headerText="Task Name" width="250" />
        <ColumnDirective field="StartDate" />
        <ColumnDirective field="Duration" />
        <ColumnDirective field="Progress" />
      </ColumnsDirective>
      <Inject services={[Edit, Toolbar, Selection]} />
    </GanttComponent>
  );
}

export default App;

Common Patterns

Enable Editing with Dialog

<GanttComponent
  editSettings={{ allowEditing: true, mode: 'Dialog' }}
>
  <Inject services={[Edit]} />
</GanttComponent>

Enable Cell Editing

<GanttComponent
  editSettings={{ allowEditing: true, mode: 'Auto' }}
>
  <Inject services={[Edit]} />
</GanttComponent>

Programmatically Add a Task

const ganttRef = React.useRef<GanttComponent>(null);

const addTask = () => {
  ganttRef.current?.addRecord({ TaskID: 10, TaskName: 'New Task', Duration: 3 }, 'Below', 1);
};

Export to Excel

<GanttComponent toolbar={['ExcelExport']} allowExcelExport={true}>
  <Inject services={[ExcelExport, Toolbar]} />
</GanttComponent>

Export to PDF

<GanttComponent toolbar={['PdfExport']} allowPdfExport={true}>
  <Inject services={[PdfExport, Toolbar]} />
</GanttComponent>

Column-Level Validation Rules

<ColumnsDirective>
  <ColumnDirective field="TaskName" validationRules={{ required: true }} />
  <ColumnDirective field="Duration"  validationRules={{ min: 1, max: 100 }} />
</ColumnsDirective>

Scroll to Date Programmatically

const ganttRef = React.useRef<GanttComponent>(null);

ganttRef.current?.scrollToDate('04/28/2024');

Column Resize with Min/Max Width

<ColumnDirective field="TaskName" minWidth="100" maxWidth="400" allowResizing={true} />

Reorder Columns Programmatically

const ganttRef = React.useRef<GanttComponent>(null);

// By field names:
(ganttRef.current as any).treeGrid.reorderColumns(['Duration', 'Progress'], 'TaskName');

// By index:
(ganttRef.current as any).treeGrid.reorderColumnByIndex(2, 0);

Persist Tree Expand/Collapse State

// In taskFields — map a boolean field that controls initial expand state:
const taskFields = { ..., expandState: 'isExpand' };

// Or collapse all on load:
<GanttComponent collapseAllParentTasks={true} .../>

Key Module Injections

Usage pattern:

import { GanttComponent, Inject, Edit, Filter, Sort, Toolbar, Selection } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-gantt';

<GanttComponent ...>
  <Inject services={[Edit, Filter, Sort, Toolbar, Selection]} />
</GanttComponent>

Key Props Reference