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Achim Junior Member Offline MindFusion rocks! Posts: 70 Location: Bayreuth, Germany Joined: Jun 28^th, 2012	ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 8:31am	Print Post
	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... Many thanks in advance Achim

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Meppy God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 1783 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #1 - Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 10:13am	Print Post
	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. Regards, Meppy


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Meppy God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 1783 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #2 - Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 12:00pm	Print Post
	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. Regards, Meppy


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Meppy God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 1783 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #3 - Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 12:28pm	Print Post
	I forgot to mention that this version should also fix the bug discussed here. Regards, Meppy


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Achim Junior Member Offline MindFusion rocks! Posts: 70 Location: Bayreuth, Germany Joined: Jun 28^th, 2012	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #4 - Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 12:32pm	Print Post
	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! Achim


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Achim Junior Member Offline MindFusion rocks! Posts: 70 Location: Bayreuth, Germany Joined: Jun 28^th, 2012	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #5 - Jul 9^th, 2012 at 2:21pm	Print Post
	Hi Meppy, I'm back again 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? Best regards Achim


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Achim Junior Member Offline MindFusion rocks! Posts: 70 Location: Bayreuth, Germany Joined: Jun 28^th, 2012	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #6 - Jul 9^th, 2012 at 2:25pm	Print Post
	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 Best regards Achim


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Meppy God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 1783 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #7 - Jul 9^th, 2012 at 2:47pm	Print Post
	Hi, I think calling BeginInit/EndInit in a succession after changing the dependencies will rebuild the entire view: Code 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. Regards, Meppy


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Achim Junior Member Offline MindFusion rocks! Posts: 70 Location: Bayreuth, Germany Joined: Jun 28^th, 2012	Re: ResourceView: Dependencies between Resources Reply #8 - Jul 10^th, 2012 at 6:48am	Print Post
	Thanks Meppy, I'll give it a try and report again. Achim


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