Gantt Chart Quick Start

Getting started with Gantt Chart
The result
- See the result
- Full source code

Getting started with Gantt Chart

To get started with AnyGantt follow these simple steps and you will get your first web Gantt chart in a minute.

1. Include Gantt Chart into Your Web Page

Include the JavaScript file in the <head> section of your web page - visit the download page for those or use CDN as shown below.

<head>
    <script src="https://cdn.anychart.com/js/latest/anygantt.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

2. Create a Container for the Chart

Add a block-based HTML element into your page, set the id, width and height attributes. AnyChart charting library uses 100% of the container if other behaviour is not specified. Example:

<body>
    <div id="container" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></div>
</body>

3. Prepare your Data

Gantt Chart provides quite a few opportunities to work with data (such as setting tree like hierarchy with parent/child division), thus it requires preparing data before usage. Raw data set for html5 Gantt chart may look like this:

 var rawData = [
  {
    "name": "Activities",
    "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 0, 25),
    "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 2, 14),
    "children": [
      {
        "name": "Draft plan",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 0, 25),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 3)
      },
      {
        "name": "Board meeting",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4)
      },
      {
        "name": "Research option",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 24)
      },
      {
        "name": "Final plan",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 24),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 2, 14)
      }
    ]
  }];

4. Create a chart

Add the JavaScript tag <script> with the following code anywhere in the page. This code example uses JavaScript API to create a chart, but you also can use JSON, XML and CSV. Example:

<script>
anychart.onDocumentReady(function(){
 var rawData = [
  {
    "name": "Activities",
    "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 0, 25),
    "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 2, 14),
    "children": [
      {
        "name": "Draft plan",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 0, 25),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 3)
      },
      {
        "name": "Board meeting",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4)
      },
      {
        "name": "Research option",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 24)
      },
      {
        "name": "Final plan",
        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 24),
        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 2, 14)
      }
    ]
  }];
  
  // data tree settings
  var treeData = anychart.data.tree(rawData, anychart.enums.TreeFillingMethod.AS_TREE);
  var chart = anychart.ganttProject();      // chart type
  chart.data(treeData);                     // chart data
  chart.container('container').draw();      // set container and initiate drawing
});
</script>

The result

See the result

After all these steps you should have the following result. This example, like any other on our site, can be launched and explored using the samples playground.

Playground

Full source code

You can copy this to a file on your computer and open it in your browser to display the Gantt Chart shown above:

<!doctype html>
<head>
  <script src="https://cdn.anychart.com/js/latest/anygantt.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script>
	anychart.onDocumentReady(function(){
	
	    var rawData = [
	      {
	        "name": "Activities",
	        "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 0, 25),
	        "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 2, 14),
	        "children": [
	          {
	            "name": "Draft plan",
	            "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 0, 25),
	            "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 3)
	          },
	          {
	            "name": "Board meeting",
	            "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4),
	            "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4)
	          },
	          {
	            "name": "Research option",
	            "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 4),
	            "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 24)
	          },
	          {
	            "name": "Final plan",
	            "actualStart": Date.UTC(2007, 1, 24),
	            "actualEnd": Date.UTC(2007, 2, 14)
	          }
	        ]
	      }];
	
	  // tree data settings
	  var treeData = anychart.data.tree(rawData, anychart.enums.TreeFillingMethod.AS_TREE);
	
	  // chart type
	  chart = anychart.ganttProject();
	
	  // chart container
	  chart.container('container');
	
	  // set chart data
	  chart.data(treeData);
	
	  // initiate drawing
	  chart.draw();
	  
	  // show all items 
	  chart.fitAll();
	
	});
  </script>
</head>
<body>
	<div id="container" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></div>
</body>
</html>