Hello all,

I have to display a Organization chart using asp.net 2.0 & NetDiagram 1.0.4

I used Table type node to display employee enformation like: name, phone, email, position, image etc.

After creating all nodes and links i am using following code to layout the diagram:

Dim ll As MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms.Layout.LayeredLayout = New MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms.Layout.LayeredLayout()
ll.LayerDistance = 30
ll.KeepGroupLayout = True
ll.Margins = New System.Drawing.SizeF(10, 10)
ll.NodeDistance = 45
ll.SplitLayers = False
ll.Orientation = MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms.Layout.Orientation.Vertical
ll.LinkType = LayeredLayoutLinkType.Cascading
ll.Anchoring = Anchoring.Keep
ll.TimeLimit = 1000
ll.ArrowsCompactFactor = 5
ll.Arrange(FC)
FC.FitDocToObjects(10)

Rest everything is fine but the arrow lines from parent to diffrent childs overlap each other and its impossible to know which all childs belong to which parent.


Properties of flowchart i set:
FC.BackColor = Color.White
           FC.ZoomFactor = 100
           FC.SelectAfterCreate = False
           FC.AntiAlias = drawing.Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.HighQuality
           FC.TableStyle = TableStyle.Rectangle
           FC.TableColumnCount = 1
           FC.TableRowCount = 0
           FC.TableRowHeight = 8
           FC.RoundedArrows = True
           FC.RoundedArrowsRadius = 30
           FC.RoundRectFactor = 1
           FC.ArrowStyle = ArrowStyle.Polyline
           FC.ArrowHead = ArrowHead.BowArrow
           FC.ArrowHeadSize = 4
           FC.ImageFormat = "image/jpeg"
           FC.ImageQuality = 100

Properties i set for table nodes:
t.RowCount = 0
       t.ColumnCount = 1
       t.ColumnWidth = 20
       t.RowHeight = 8

       t.CellFrameStyle = CellFrameStyle.Simple
       t.Pen = New MindFusion.Drawing.Pen(drawing.Color.LightGray, 0.1)
       t.LinkStyle = TableLinkStyle.Table
       t.Expandable = True
       t.AnchorPattern = AnchorPattern.TopInBottomOut
       t.Brush = New MindFusion.Drawing.SolidBrush(drawing.Color.LightYellow)

       t.CaptionBackBrush = New MindFusion.Drawing.SolidBrush(drawing.Color.LightSkyBlue)
       t.CaptionHeight = 8
       t.Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Verdana", 8, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Point)




Is there any solution to this problem

Please help.............

Regards
Manu

Thanks a lot, :)

It really helped.

[b]I wrote following code:[/b]

Dim oo As MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms.Layout.OrthogonalLayout = New MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms.Layout.OrthogonalLayout
oo.Anchoring = Anchoring.Keep
oo.BendDistance = 1
oo.Direction = Direction.Straight
oo.LayerDistance = 100
oo.SplitGraph = True
oo.Orientation = MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms.Layout.Orientation.Vertical
oo.PutEndPointsAtNodeBorders = True
oo.NodeDistance = 50
oo.KeepGroupLayout = True



[b]Please advice if i could do better then this.[/b]

Regards
Manu

In regards to grouping the children together - use TreeLayout instead of LayeredLayout. TreeLayout ignores links that deviate from a strict hierarchy, say a child node with two parents will have only one of its incoming links processed by TreeLayout, but that should not be a problem since you are running OrthogonalLayout to arrange the links after that. Additionally, the links should be distributed better if you set oo.Anchoring = Anchoring.Ignore when running OrthogonalLayout.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Manoj,

That's possible with version 2 of the control, which we are releasing just now.

Stoyan

There is a beta version available right now:
http://mindfusion.eu/Forum/YaBB.pl?board=netdg_disc;action=display;num=120937620...

Stoyan