How to group actions?

[duhmojo]

Hi all. Thanks for working on such a cool looking Gantt component.

I'd like to group actions into a milestone instead of just a series of actions. Is there anyway of throwing a full width item in the list? Maybe an action with a custom style? Thanks.

[m50S79sM6SRNp8Jn]

Not sure how to do this. Would be interesting to learn. If someone has a code example please share.

[safwansamsudeen]

@duhmojo what would be the practical difference between a milestone and a series of actions?

[duhmojo]

A milestone is a collection of actions within a project. In a project you typically have more than just unrelated actions. It's pretty standard stuff. Here's a shot of what I implemented.

The milestones reflect the start/end of the sub-actions. You can attach meaning to the milestone, like a Lead contact. You can send out notifications/alerts to a milestone lead when an action is updated, etc... Stuff like you'd see in Project.

[safwansamsudeen]

@duhmojo But a milestone shouldn't have editable progress or dates, am I correct? Both should be auto calculated?

[duhmojo]

In my implementation the milestone has an initial date and range (today + a day) then I added some Esther painful support for a custom popover where you can add an action (shows an add modal). Once you have an action or two the milestone date range is automatically determined from the actions that belong to it. You could have a milestone have its own date and range but practically it’ll become pointless if the actions go outside of it, so I just created the milestones with the mix/max of its actions.