Efficient project management often requires the ability to share, print, and customize project timelines and task lists. The TTMSFNCGanttChartPDFIO and TTMSFNCGanttChartPrintIO components in TMS FNC Gantt Chart are designed to enhance your Gantt chart workflow by providing robust export and print capabilities. Let's dive into how these components can help you present your project data professionally and effectively.

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PDFIO and PrintIO

As the name suggests the TTMSFNCGanttChartPDFIO allows you to export your Gantt chart data into a PDF format effortlessly, while the TTMSFNCGanttChartPrintIO component offers a powerful way to print your Gantt chart data directly.

Both of these components are based on the PDF and print functionality available in TMS FNC Core. The features for the Gantt Chart are similar, giving you almost the exact same results for PDF export and direct printing.

These controls have two common properties:

• GanttChart: References the Gantt chart component to be exported.
• GanttChartExportOptions: Customizes layout, appearance, and content settings for the file.

Key Features of the GanttChartExportOptions

Selective Export

Choose to export the task list, timeline, or both with the Mode property, giving you control over the content.

Customizable Appearance

Tailor the appearance with custom colors, fonts, and layout configurations, ensuring that your Gantt chart meets specific aesthetic and branding requirements.

By default the appearance of the Gantt Chart will be used, but with the CustomTaskListAppearance and CustomTimeLineAppearance properties, you can configure each part of the Gantt Chart as you want.
The custom appearances are initialized with grayscale colors to give a clear and simple look.

It is even possible to change the exported columns by name or size, as well as the item height and the unit width, or group and header height from the timeline.

To get even more out of the customization, you can also use the custom drawing events which have a Exporting property in their parameters, indicating if the event is triggered for normal drawing or for the export to PDF or printable pages.

Flexibility

Adjust settings such as page layout and content scaling to ensure the PDF is clear and readable.

How to use

procedure TForm.ExportBtnClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
  pdfIO := TTMSFNCGanttChartPDFIO.Create(nil);
  pdfIO.GanttChart := YourGanttChart;

  //Basic PDF Options:
  pdfIO.Options.OpenInPDFReader := True;
  pdfIO.Options.PageOrientation := poLandscape;

  //Part Selection
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.Mode := emBoth;

  //Customization of Appearance:
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.UseCustomTaskListAppearance := True;
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.CustomTaskListAppearance.HeaderFill.Color := $FF4a4a4a;
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.CustomTaskListAppearance.HeaderFont.Color := $FFFFFFFF;
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.TaskListBorderDraw := ebRow;

  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.ItemHeight := 60;
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.TimelineUnitWidth := 30;

  //Select your Columns
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.TaskListColumns.AddColumn('taskname','Name', 200);
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.TaskListColumns.AddColumn('startdate','Start', 100);
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.TaskListColumns.AddColumn('enddate','End', 100);

  //Other Settings
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.FitToPage := True; //Will try to fit everything on one page, otherwise will evenly divide on multiple pages.
  pdfIO.GanttChartPDFExportOptions.RepeatHeaders := True;

  pdfIO.Save('.\MyGanttChart.pdf');

  Or
 
  printIO.Print;
end;

procedure TForm.YourGanttChartBeforeDrawGanttTimeLineGroupTimeText(Sender: TObject; AGraphics: TTMSFNCGraphics; ADateTime: TDateTime;
  ARow: Integer; var ADrawingParams: TTMSFNCGanttTimeDrawingParams; var AAllow, ADefaultDraw: Boolean);
begin
  if ADrawingParams.Exporting then
  begin
    ADrawingParams.HorizontalAlignment := gtaCenter;
  end;
end;

Conclusion

Both components are invaluable tools for enhancing the versatility and presentation of your Gantt charts. By providing flexible export and print options, these components help you share and present your project data in the most effective way possible.

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