Data binding in Angular Gantt component

15 Mar 202324 minutes to read

The Gantt uses DataManager, which supports both RESTful JSON data services binding and local JavaScript object array binding. The dataSource property can be assigned either with the instance of DataManager or JavaScript object array collection. Gantt provides support to bind two kinds of data,

  • Local data
  • Remote data

The following video explains the data binding in Gantt chart :

Local data

To bind local data to Gantt, you can assign a JavaScript object array to the dataSource property. The local data source can also be provided as an instance of the DataManager.

In local data binding, the data source for rendering the Gantt component is retrieved from the same application locally.

The following are the two types of data binding possible with the Gantt component:

  • Hierarchical data binding.
  • Self-referential data binding (Flat data).

Hierarchical data binding

The child property is used to map the child records in hierarchical data.

The following code example shows how to bind the hierarchical local data into the Gantt component.

import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="430px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: object[];
    public taskSettings: object;
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data =  [
            {
                TaskID: 1,
                TaskName: 'Project Initiation',
                StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),
                EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019'),
                subtasks: [
                    {  TaskID: 2, TaskName: 'Identify Site location', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50 },
                    { TaskID: 3, TaskName: 'Perform Soil test', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50  },
                    { TaskID: 4, TaskName: 'Soil test approval', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50 },
                ]
            },
            {
                TaskID: 5,
                TaskName: 'Project Estimation',
                StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),
                EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019'),
                subtasks: [
                    { TaskID: 6, TaskName: 'Develop floor plan for estimation', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 },
                    { TaskID: 7, TaskName: 'List materials', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 },
                    { TaskID: 8, TaskName: 'Estimation approval', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 }
                ]
            },
        ];
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskID',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            endDate: 'EndDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            child: 'subtasks'
        };
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Self-referential data binding (Flat data)

The Gantt component can be bound with self-referential data by mapping the data source field values to the id and parentID properties.

  • ID field: This field contains unique values used to identify each individual task and it is mapped to the id property.
  • Parent ID field: This field contains values that indicate parent tasks and it is mapped to the parentID property.
import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="430px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: object[];
    public taskSettings: object;
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data =  [
            { TaskID: 1,TaskName: 'Project Initiation',StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019')},
            { TaskID: 2, TaskName: 'Identify Site location', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50,ParentId:1 },
            { TaskID: 3, TaskName: 'Perform Soil test', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50, ParentId:1   },
            { TaskID: 4, TaskName: 'Soil test approval', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50,ParentId:1 },
            { TaskID: 5, TaskName: 'Project Estimation',StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019')},
            { TaskID: 6, TaskName: 'Develop floor plan for estimation', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50, ParentId:2  },
            { TaskID: 7, TaskName: 'List materials', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50,ParentId:2  },
            { TaskID: 8, TaskName: 'Estimation approval', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50, ParentId:2  }
        ];
        this.taskSettings = {
                id: 'TaskID',
                name: 'TaskName',
                startDate: 'StartDate',
                duration: 'Duration',
                progress: 'Progress',
                parentID:'ParentId'
        };
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Remote data

To bind remote data to the Gantt component, assign service data as an instance of DataManager to the dataSource property.

import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';
import { DataManager, WebApiAdaptor } from '@syncfusion/ej2-data';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="430px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings" [columns]="columns"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: DataManager;
    public taskSettings: object;
    public columns: object[];
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data = new DataManager({
            url: 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/GanttData',
            adaptor: new WebApiAdaptor,
            crossDomain: true
        });
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskId',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            dependency: 'Predecessor',
            child: 'SubTasks'
        };
        this.columns = [
            { field: 'TaskName', headerText: 'Task Name', width: '250', clipMode: 'EllipsisWithTooltip' },
            { field: 'StartDate' },
            { field: 'Duration' }
        ];
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

URL Adaptor

In Gantt, we can fetch data from SQL database using ADO.NET Entity Data Model and update the changes on CRUD action to the server by using DataManager support. To communicate with the remote data we are using UrlAdaptor of DataManager property to call the server method and get back resultant data in JSON format. We can know more about UrlAdaptor from here.

Please refer the link to create the ADO.NET Entity Data Model in Visual studio,

We can define data source for Gantt as instance of DataManager using url property of DataManager. Please Check the below code snippet to assign data source to Gantt.

import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';
import { DataManager, UrlAdaptor } from '@syncfusion/ej2-data';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="430px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings" [columns]="columns"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: DataManager;
    public taskSettings: object;
    public columns: object[];
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data = new DataManager({
            url: '/Home/UrlDatasource',
            adaptor: new UrlAdaptor
        });
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskId',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            dependency: 'Predecessor',
            child: 'SubTasks'
        };
        this.columns = [
            { field: 'TaskName', headerText: 'Task Name', width: '250', clipMode: 'EllipsisWithTooltip' },
            { field: 'StartDate' },
            { field: 'Duration' }
        ];
    }
}
GanttDataSourceEntities db = new GanttDataSourceEntities();
public ActionResult UrlDatasource(DataManagerRequest dm)
{
    List<GanttData>DataList = db.GanttDatas.ToList();
    var count = DataList.Count();
    return Json(new { result = DataList, count = count });
}

Sending additional parameters to the server

We can pass additional parameters using addParams method of Query class. In server side we have inherited and shown the additional parameter value in Syncfusion DataManager class itself. We pass an additional parameter in load time using load event. We can also pass additional parameter to the CRUD model. Please Check the below code snippet to send additional parameter to Gantt.

import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt, ToolbarItem, EditSettingsModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';
import { DataManager, UrlAdaptor, Query } from '@syncfusion/ej2-data';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="430px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings" [editSettings]="editSettings" [toolbar]="toolbar" (load)="load($event)"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: DataManager;
    public taskSettings: object;
    public editSettings: EditSettingsModel;
    public toolbar: ToolbarItem[];
    public columns: object[];
    @ViewChild('gantt', {static: true})
    public ganttObj: GanttComponent;
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data = new DataManager({
            url: 'http://localhost:50039/Home/UrlDatasource',
            adaptor: new UrlAdaptor,
            batchUrl: 'http://localhost:50039/Home/BatchSave',
        });
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskId',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            dependency: 'Predecessor',
            child: 'SubTasks'
        };
        this.columns = [
            { field: 'TaskName', headerText: 'Task Name', width: '250', clipMode: 'EllipsisWithTooltip' },
            { field: 'StartDate' },
            { field: 'Duration' }
        ];
        this.editSettings = {
            allowAdding: true,
            allowEditing: true,
            allowDeleting: true
        };
        this.toolbar =  ['Add', 'Edit', 'Delete', 'Update', 'Cancel', 'ExpandAll', 'CollapseAll'];
        load: function(args) {
            this.ganttObj.query = new Query().addParams('ej2Gantt', "test");
            }
    }
}
namespace URLAdaptor.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        ...///
        //inherit the class to show age as property of DataManager
        public class Test : DataManagerRequest
        {
            public string ej2Gantt { get; set; }
        }

        public ActionResult UrlDatasource([FromBody]Test dm)
        {
            if (DataList == null)
            {
                ProjectData datasource = new ProjectData();
                DataList = datasource.GetUrlDataSource();
            }
            var count = DataList.Count();
            return Json(new { result = DataList, count = count }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
        }

        ...///

        public class ICRUDModel<T> where T : class
        {

            public object key { get; set; }

            public T value { get; set; }

            public List<T> added { get; set; }

            public List<T> changed { get; set; }

            public List<T> deleted { get; set; }

            public IDictionary<string, object> @params { get; set; }

        }
        ...///
    }
}

You can find the full sample from here.

Handling HTTP error

During server interaction from the Gantt, some server-side exceptions may occur, and you can acquire those error messages or exception details in client-side using the actionFailure event.

The argument passed to the actionFailure event contains the error details returned from the server.

import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';
import { DataManager } from '@syncfusion/ej2-data';
import { GanttComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt #gantt id="ganttDefault" height="430px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings" (actionFailure)="actionFailure($event)"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: DataManager;
    public taskSettings: object;
    @ViewChild('gantt', {static: true})
    public ganttObj: GanttComponent;
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data = new DataManager({
            url: 'http://some.com/invalidUrl',
        });
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskId',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            dependency: 'Predecessor',
            child: 'SubTasks'
        };
        actionFailure: function(args) {
            let span: HTMLElement = document.createElement('span');
            this.ganttObj.element.parentNode.insertBefore(span, this.ganttObj.element);
            span.style.color = '#FF0000'
            span.innerHTML = 'Server exception: 404 Not found';
        }
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Binding with Ajax

You can use Gantt dataSource property to bind the data source to Gantt from external Ajax request. In the below code we have fetched the data source from the server with the help of Ajax request and provided that to dataSource property by using onSuccess event of the Ajax.

import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';
import { ButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-buttons';
import { Ajax } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { GanttComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';
import { DataManager, WebApiAdaptor, UrlAdaptor } from '@syncfusion/ej2-data';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<button ejs-button id='binddata' (click)='bind()'>Bind Data</button>
       <br><br>
       <ejs-gantt #gantt id="ganttDefault" [dataSource]="data" height="430px" [taskFields]="taskSettings" [projectStartDate]="projectStartDate" [projectEndDate]="projectEndDate"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent {
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: object[];
    public taskSettings: object;
    public projectStartDate: Date;
    public projectEndDate: Date;
    @ViewChild('gantt', { static: true })
    public ganttObj: GanttComponent;
    public gantt: GanttComponent;
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.temp = this,
            this.data = [],
            this.taskSettings = {
                id: 'TaskId',
                name: 'TaskName',
                startDate: 'StartDate',
                duration: 'Duration',
                progress: 'Progress',
                dependency: 'Predecessor',
                child: 'SubTasks'
            },
            this.projectStartDate = new Date('02/24/2019'),
            this.projectEndDate = new Date('07/20/2019')
    }
    bind(): void {
        const temp = this.ganttObj;
        let ajax = new Ajax("https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/GanttData", "GET");
        temp.showSpinner();
        ajax.send();
        ajax.onSuccess = function (data: string) {
            temp.hideSpinner();
            temp.dataSource = (JSON.parse(data)).Items;
            temp.refresh();
        };
    };
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Note: If you bind the dataSource from this way, then it acts like a local dataSource. So you cannot perform any server side crud actions.

Split task

The Split-task feature allows you to split a task or interrupt the work during planned or unforeseen circumstances.
We can split the task either in load time or dynamically, by defining the segments either in hierarchical or self-referential way.

Hierarchical

To split a task at load time in hierarchical way, we need to define the segment details in datasource and this field should be mapped by using the taskFields.segments property.

[
    {
        TaskID: 1, TaskName: 'Identify Site location', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50,
        Segments: [
            { StartDate: new Date("04/02/2019"), Duration: 2 },
            { StartDate: new Date("04/04/2019"), Duration: 2 }
        ]
    }
]
import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="450px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: object[];
    public taskSettings: object;
    public editSettings: EditSettingsModel;
    public toolbar: ToolbarItem[];
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data =  [
            {
            TaskID: 1,
            TaskName: 'Project Initiation',
            StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),
            EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019'),
            subtasks: [
                { TaskID: 2, TaskName: 'Identify Site location', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50,
                Segments: [
                    { StartDate: new Date("04/02/2019"), Duration: 2 },
                    { StartDate: new Date("04/04/2019"), Duration: 2 }
                  ] },
                { TaskID: 3, TaskName: 'Perform Soil test', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50  },
                { TaskID: 4, TaskName: 'Soil test approval', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4 , Progress: 50 },
            ]
        },
        {
            TaskID: 5,
            TaskName: 'Project Estimation',
            StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),
            EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019'),
            subtasks: [
                { TaskID: 6, TaskName: 'Develop floor plan for estimation', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 },
                { TaskID: 7, TaskName: 'List materials', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 },
                { TaskID: 8, TaskName: 'Estimation approval', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 }
            ]
        }
        ];
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskID',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            endDate: 'EndDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            child: 'subtasks',
            segments: 'Segments'
        };
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Self-referential

We can also define segment details as a flat data and this collection can be mapped by using segmentData property. The segment id field of this collection is mapped by using the taskFields.segmentId property.

  taskFields: {
    segmentId: "segmentId"
  },
  segmentData: [
    { segmentId: 1, StartDate: new Date("02/04/2019"), Duration: 2 },
    { segmentId: 1, StartDate: new Date("02/05/2019"), Duration: 5 },
    { segmentId: 4, StartDate: new Date("04/02/2019"), Duration: 2 },
    { segmentId: 4, StartDate: new Date("04/04/2019"), Duration: 2 }
  ],
import { Component, ViewEncapsulation, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Gantt } from '@syncfusion/ej2-gantt';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template:
       `<ejs-gantt id="ganttDefault" height="450px" [dataSource]="data" [taskFields]="taskSettings" [segmentData]="segmentData"></ejs-gantt>`,
    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent{
    // Data for Gantt
    public data: object[];
    public taskSettings: object;
    public editSettings: EditSettingsModel;
    public toolbar: ToolbarItem[];
    public ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data =  [
            {
            TaskID: 1,
            TaskName: 'Project Initiation',
            StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),
            EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019'),
            subtasks: [
                { TaskID: 2, TaskName: 'Identify Site location', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50 },
                { TaskID: 3, TaskName: 'Perform Soil test', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4, Progress: 50  },
                { TaskID: 4, TaskName: 'Soil test approval', StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'), Duration: 4 , Progress: 50 },
            ]
        },
        {
            TaskID: 5,
            TaskName: 'Project Estimation',
            StartDate: new Date('04/02/2019'),
            EndDate: new Date('04/21/2019'),
            subtasks: [
                { TaskID: 6, TaskName: 'Develop floor plan for estimation', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 },
                { TaskID: 7, TaskName: 'List materials', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 },
                { TaskID: 8, TaskName: 'Estimation approval', StartDate: new Date('04/04/2019'), Duration: 3, Progress: 50 }
            ]
        }
        ];
        this.taskSettings = {
            id: 'TaskID',
            name: 'TaskName',
            startDate: 'StartDate',
            endDate: 'EndDate',
            duration: 'Duration',
            progress: 'Progress',
            child: 'subtasks',
            segmentId: 'segmentId'
        };
        this.segmentData = [
           { segmentId: 2, StartDate: new Date("04/02/2019"), Duration: 2 },
           { segmentId: 2, StartDate: new Date("04/04/2019"), Duration: 2 },
           { segmentId: 4, StartDate: new Date("04/02/2019"), Duration: 2 },
           { segmentId: 4, StartDate: new Date("04/04/2019"), Duration: 2 }
        ];
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { GanttModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-gantt';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule, GanttModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Note: Segment id field contains id of a task which should be split at load time.

Limitations

Gantt has the support for both Hierarchical and Self-Referential data binding. When rendering the Gantt control with SQL database, we suggest you to use the Self-Referential data binding to maintain the parent-child relation. Because the complex json structure is very difficult to manage it in SQL tables, we need to write a complex queries and we have to write a complex algorithm to find out the proper record details while updating/deleting the inner level task in Gantt data source. We cannot implement both data binding for Gantt control and this is not a recommended way. If both child and parentID are mapped, the records will not render properly because, when task id of a record defined in the hierarchy structure is assigned to parent id of another record, in such case the records will not properly render. As the self-referential will search the record with particular id in flat data only, not in the inner level of records. If we map the parentID field, it will be prioritized and Gantt will be rendered based on the parentID values.