The global software development company Exelsys is in the process of incorporating DHTMLX Scheduler in the new version of their product. The frontend developer Volodymyr shares his experience of using JavaScript schedulers and DHTMLX in particular. Could you tell us about your product and your role in the company? I am a software engineer. I develop the front-end part of our product where we use DHTMLX Scheduler for planning. Our company Exelsys provides software for managing employees. We have an office in the UK and many clients there. Another office is located in Cyprus. We also have branch ..read more

Today our special guests are the CEO of the British transport software provider Proteo Andrew Scott and front-end developer Rupert Hammond. The Proteo team has been using DHTMLX Scheduler for about five years. We are delighted to talk to you about your experience with DHTMLX Scheduler. Could you tell us about your project and your role in it? Andrew: I am the CEO of Proteo. We are a transport software provider. We do TMS software projects for trucking companies. We have eight or nine transporters using our system with varying fleet sizes ranging from 10 up to 380 vehicles. The Scheduler compon ..read more

It is hard to imagine a successful project without effective time management tools such as working time calendars. That is why our development team paid considerable attention to this aspect of project management and provided a variety of options for arranging a working time in DHTMLX Gantt. Using this JavaScript library, you can create a powerful Gantt chart and complement it with one or several working time calendars. In this article, we will review interesting examples of how the working calendar function can be used in your web projects. Key concepts behind working calendars in DHTMLX Gant ..read more

Our new customer spotlight features the project portfolio management software developed by the French project player IQAR. Our guests are Madalina and Benjamin, who will share their experience of working with DHTMLX Gantt, which is the centerpiece of their solution SuitePro-G. Could you tell us a bit about your project and your role in it? Benjamin: I am a web developer at IQar. I am a full-stack developer working on C# technology on the backend and JavaScript/jQuery as frontend. I’m at IQar since August 2020. I have worked on the DHTMLX Gantt component several times. Madalina: I am Madalina ..read more

Since its release in July 2020, the code snippet tool has become a great helper to programmers who use DHTMLX JavaScript UI libraries. If you are not familiar with it yet, you can check out the release article. This handy instrument enables developers to view the JS and HTML code of DHTMLX samples, make modifications, and preview the result. Modified snippets can be easily saved and shared with colleagues for more effective collaboration as well as with our technical support team when the need arises. And now, the DHTMLX development team made the snippet tool even more convenient by introducin ..read more

We are delighted to announce the release of the DHTMLX JavaScript diagram library 4.0. The major version brings out such sought-after elements as swimlanes and groups of items as well as integration demos with Angular, React, and Vue.js. Diagram editors become more flexible. The API is enriched with new events, methods, and configuration options. Download the brand-new version 4.0 of DHTMLX Diagram > Let’s uncover all the release features now! Groups V4.0 delivers the ability to set up a group of Diagram elements. Groups can comprise shapes as well as other groups. They serve to organize ob ..read more

Welcome to the last summer 2021 edition of DHTMLX maintenance releases. In August, the DHTMLX development team rolled out a range of useful fixes for our JavaScript project management tools, namely Gantt and Scheduler, Spreadsheet component, and a new patch version of the Suite UI widgets library. Check out the full list of improvements below. DHTMLX Gantt 7.1.6 7.1.6 (August 23, 2021) The incorrect work of the auto_scheduling_move_projects config when schedule_from_end is enabled (Fixed) The incorrect work of the onrender callback of the column which caused custom elements to disappear when ..read more

Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a Javascript-based project and linking it to a DHTMLX UI framework can be a long and tedious process. Fortunately, there are tools to speed up this process. In this blog post, we will discuss how to set up a basic pipeline with Semaphore, Github, and DHTMLX Components. Tools You Will Need Semaphore: a CI / CD server that can run your tests and deploy your code to any destination. In this case, we will use it as a build system, but you can also connect other third-party services like Gitlab or Bitbucket. Github: the place where all of our code lives. We will ne ..read more

We are excited to help you make one more step forward in exploring the capabilities of DHTMLX Gantt. If you are not new to DHTMLX, you are familiar with numerous Gantt features that can be implemented on the client-side for effective project management. But how about using DHTMLX Gantt on the server? Our Gantt component can be complemented with a special Node.js server module designed for running and managing Gantt charts on the back-end, but some developers still have a vague notion of how it can benefit them. It is time to fill this knowledge gap with possible use cases of the Node.js module ..read more

It is time to get acquainted with one more great project using DHTMLX. Today, we are talking to Elijah Lovejoy, the co-founder and CTO of Ondema, Inc. The company’s goal is to help businesses to digitize their operations with production scheduling solutions based on DHTMLX Gantt. Hello Elijah, thank you for accepting our invitation for the interview. First of all, could you tell us about the project of your company and your role in it? The company’s name is Ondema. We provide software to solve scheduling problems for contract manufacturers. Fundamentally, we help people with complex scheduling ..read more