Add "fixed" elements on the side of rows

[marciogurka]

Forum post

Problem description:
Really often, it's quite hard to read a Gantt / scheduler when starting from a "blank" part of the agenda, or when navigating in a blank part of a Gantt.

For that, we'd like to:

• Show the name of the task as "fixed" on the left

• Show right/left arrows to scroll to the task horizontally

In the attachment is a video of what we'd like to do with Bryntum.

Screen.Recording.2022-08-31.at.15.59.13.mov

[Aarbel]

@marciogurka

additional example from Notion's gantts

Screen.Recording.2022-09-05.at.10.21.45.mov

[Aarbel]

@marciogurka do you plan to provide it in V6 ?

[marciogurka]

Hey @Aarbel it's still in discussion, so far no new updates on this.

[marciogurka]

+1 for this one

[Aarbel]

@marciogurka do you have any news about it ?

Or any way to add it with custom code on the gantt ?

That's really critical for our users that work on big gantts

[matsbryntse]

We should be able to get this part of a release in Q3!

[matsbryntse]

scroll.mov

[Aarbel]

Great news, thanks a lot @matsbryntse

Few ideas to make sure the feature will be fully usable by many teams:

Being able to :

• customise the arrow with a React component
• show datas next to the arrow (like the start / end date) can be a good
• being able to know if separately the start date is hidden (off the scroll), the end date is hidden, the whole bar is hidden (see screenshot of Notion's timeline view bellow)

Screen.Recording.2023-08-10.at.12.38.48.mov

[Aarbel]

@SergeyMaltsev 🎉

[Aarbel]

@SergeyMaltsev when do you plan to release bryntum 5.6 ?

[SergeyMaltsev]

@Aarbel You may use released 5.6.0-beta-1 version with this fix.
5.6.0 release is planned pretty soon (in a week or two).

[Aarbel]

@SergeyMaltsev thanks a lot for the details,

Is this enhancement included inside Bryntum Scheduler 5.6.0 and Bryntum Gantt 5.6.0 ?

[matsbryntse]

It's only for Bryntum Gantt for now, would you need something similar for Scheduler?

[Aarbel]

@matsbryntse yes would be wonderful, it's the same pain for users (jumping horizontally if elements are not visible on the right or the left)
Note that on a scheduler, sometimes arrows could be displayed on both sides (as elements are not unique per row on the scheduler)

The scheduler was also clearly mentioned in initial issue previous year

[Aarbel]

@marciogurka i'm not seeing any issue about this, could be really great to include it very soon in the scheduler !