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Custom edit view

Split task editing into a dedicated React Router view with shared Gantt context.

src/examples/custom-edit-view/GanttEditorViewDemo.tsx View on GitHub
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Outlet } from 'react-router-dom';
import { Task, Link } from "@dhtmlx/trial-react-gantt";

import { LocalizationProvider } from "@mui/x-date-pickers";
import { AdapterDayjs } from "@mui/x-date-pickers/AdapterDayjs";

export interface GanttEditorContext {
tasks: Task[];
links: Link[];
handleSaveTask: (updated: Task) => void;
handleDeleteTask: (id: string) => void;
createTask: (newTask: Task) => void;
}

export default function GanttssEditorViewDemo() {
const [tasks, setTasks] = useState<Task[]>([
{ id: 1, text: "Office itinerancy", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 2), duration: 17, progress: 0.4, parent: 0, open: true },
{ id: 2, text: "Office facing", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 2), duration: 8, progress: 0.6, parent: 1, open: true },
{ id: 3, text: "Furniture installation", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 11), duration: 8, progress: 0.6, parent: 1, open: true },
{ id: 4, text: "The employee relocation", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 13), duration: 5, progress: 0.5, parent: 1, priority: 3, open: true },
{ id: 5, text: "Interior office", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 7, progress: 0.6, parent: 2, priority: 1 },
{ id: 6, text: "Air conditioners check", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 7, progress: 0.6, parent: 2, priority: 2 },
{ id: 7, text: "Workplaces preparation", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 12), duration: 8, progress: 0.6, parent: 3 },
{ id: 8, text: "Preparing workplaces", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 14), duration: 5, progress: 0.5, parent: 4, priority: 1 },
{ id: 9, text: "Workplaces importation", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 21), duration: 4, progress: 0.5, parent: 4 },
{ id: 10, text: "Workplaces exportation", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 27), duration: 3, progress: 0.5, parent: 4, priority: 2 },
{ id: 11, text: "Product launch", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 2), duration: 13, progress: 0.6, parent: 0, open: true },
{ id: 12, text: "Perform Initial testing", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 5, progress: 1, parent: 11 },
{ id: 13, text: "Development", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 11, progress: 0.5, parent: 11, open: true },
{ id: 14, text: "Analysis", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 6, progress: 0.8, parent: 11 },
{ id: 15, text: "Design", type: "project", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 5, progress: 0.2, parent: 11, open: true },
{ id: 16, text: "Documentation creation", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 7, progress: 0, parent: 11, priority: 1 },
{ id: 17, text: "Develop System", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 2, progress: 1, parent: 13, priority: 2 },
{ id: 25, text: "Beta Release", type: "milestone", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 6), duration: 0, progress: 0, parent: 13 },
{ id: 18, text: "Integrate System", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 10), duration: 2, progress: 0.8, parent: 13, priority: 3 },
{ id: 19, text: "Test", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 13), duration: 4, progress: 0.2, parent: 13 },
{ id: 20, text: "Marketing", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 13), duration: 4, progress: 0, parent: 13, priority: 1 },
{ id: 21, text: "Design database", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 4, progress: 0.5, parent: 15 },
{ id: 22, text: "Software design", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 4, progress: 0.1, parent: 15, priority: 1 },
{ id: 23, text: "Interface setup", type: "task", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 3), duration: 5, progress: 0, parent: 15, priority: 1 },
{ id: 24, text: "Release v1.0", type: "milestone", start_date: new Date(2025, 3, 18), duration: 0, progress: 0, parent: 11 }
]);

const [links, setLinks] = useState<Link[]>([
{ id: 2, source: 2, target: 3, type: "0" },
{ id: 3, source: 3, target: 4, type: "0" },
{ id: 7, source: 8, target: 9, type: "0" },
{ id: 8, source: 9, target: 10, type: "0" },
{ id: 16, source: 17, target: 25, type: "0" },
{ id: 17, source: 18, target: 19, type: "0" },
{ id: 18, source: 19, target: 20, type: "0" },
{ id: 22, source: 13, target: 24, type: "0" },
{ id: 23, source: 25, target: 18, type: "0" }
]);

function handleSaveTask(updated: Task) {

setTasks((prev) =>
prev.map((t) => (t.id === updated.id ? { ...updated, $new: undefined, end_date: undefined } : t))
);
}
function handleDeleteTask(id: string) {
setTasks(prev => prev.filter(t => t.id !== id));
}

function createTask(newTask: Task) {
setTasks((prev) => {
const exists = prev.find((t) => t.id === newTask.id);
if (!exists) {
return [...prev, newTask];
} else {
return prev.map((t) => (t.id === newTask.id ? newTask : t));
}
});
}

return (
<div className="demo-container">
<LocalizationProvider dateAdapter={AdapterDayjs}>
<Outlet
context={{
tasks,
links,
handleSaveTask,
handleDeleteTask,
createTask,
} satisfies GanttEditorContext}
/>
</LocalizationProvider>
</div>
);
}