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ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Jul 3rd, 2012 at 8:31am
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Hi there,

so I created a ResourceView with grouped Resources (see attached screenshot). There are five Producers and five Consumers. Now I want to take care of the connections between these resources.

For example: Producer 0 is connected with Consumer 5 and Consumer 7. So I want in the group of Producer 0 only to see Consumer 5 & 7. Producer 1 is connected with Consumer 6 only. So I only want to have Consumer 6 in the line of Producer 1.

Is there any way to achieve this? For my project this is absolutely vital because we have about 20 Consumers and 50 Producers - so the chart would have about 1000 Lanes that are mostly empty...

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Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Reply #1 - Jul 3rd, 2012 at 10:13am
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This is not currently possible (grouping is unconditional), but I will check if it can be added as a feature and get back to you.

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Reply #2 - Jul 3rd, 2012 at 12:00pm
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I've made some modifications to the control to allow additional customization of the secondary resources. To do this, handle the new Calendar.CustomizeGrouping event and modify the GroupByResources property of the event argument. A sample illustrating this can be downloaded from here.

This new functionality hasn't been tested much, so keep an eye for possible bugs.

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Reply #3 - Jul 3rd, 2012 at 12:28pm
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I forgot to mention that this version should also fix the bug discussed here.

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Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Reply #4 - Jul 3rd, 2012 at 12:32pm
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Hi Meppy,

thank you very much. It seems to work fine. I'll try it in my scenario and have an eye on it regarding bugs etc...

Once again: thanks a lot!
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Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Reply #5 - Jul 9th, 2012 at 2:21pm
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Hi Meppy,

I'm back again Smiley CustomizeGrouping seems to work fine so far. One thing I found a little bit strange: when I add 5 TypeA-Resources and 5 TypeB-Resources the Event-Handler is called exactly 100 times. I think it should be called only once per parent which is in this case 5 times. Is this the intended way it should work?

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Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Reply #6 - Jul 9th, 2012 at 2:25pm
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Hi Meppy,

one more thing: neither Calendar.Invalidate() nor Calendar.Refresh() seem to redraw the control. It could help alot to have a method that triggers the CustomizeGrouping again - e.g. when connections between resources change (and nothing else).

My current solution is to copy the resource collection, clear it and copy each item back. Seems to be a little bit ugly Smiley

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Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Reply #7 - Jul 9th, 2012 at 2:47pm
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Hi,

I think calling BeginInit/EndInit in a succession after changing the dependencies will rebuild the entire view:

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calendar.BeginInit();
calendar.EndInit();

It is still not straightforward, but its better than recreating the resource collection.

Regarding the CustomizeGrouping event being called multiple times, it might be a result of the view being rebuilt after the assignment of various properties. Wrapping the initialization code in a BeginInit/EndInit block will prevent the view from rebuilding multiple times.

I hope this helps.

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Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources
Reply #8 - Jul 10th, 2012 at 6:48am
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Thanks Meppy, I'll give it a try and report again.

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