Hi Dan,

I would automate Excel (if Gantt charts can be handled by Excel) or MS Project to produce and print the chart. Alternatively I would try to find a third party solution. I used to use Graphics Server by Bits per Second many many years ago for drawing graphs and charts. Maybe you can find something similar?

>I have built up a Gantt chart (out of basic shape objects) that represents a
>schedule... and now I want to print it :)
>
>What would be the best approach to making this happen?
>
>Here are some of the key aspects that make this task rather difficult:
>- The Gantt chart has multiple groups of bars per row
> (each group represents a different type of event)
>- Some of the groups overlap and some are drown with an offset
>- Groups differ from each other either by color or texture.
>- Each bar represents a particular event with start datetime and end
>datetime
>
>So far, the only thing that I can imagine as being realistically doable is
>taking a screen shot of the actual Gantt chart form (which looks exactly as
>what I want to be printed) and attach it to a report with an image
>control...
>
>I have also looked at Crystal's new feature - Gantt Chart :) Unfortunately,
>it doesn't seem to support groups of bars per row i.e. if I have several
>events scheduled for the same client, it would produce that many rows with a
>single bar representing a single event. Also, controlling color, shape and
>size of the bars in each group is close to impossible...
>
>Could anyone suggest a better way? I am in VFP8.. is there something that
>can be used in VFP9 perhaps?
>
>Here is a sample data set that is used to produce it:
>
>ClientID Type StartDateTime EndDateTime
> 1 C 05/01/05 8:00 05/01/05 9:45
> 1 C 05/01/05 16:00 05/01/05 17:15
> 1 U 05/01/05 17:00 05/01/05 18:00
> 1 A 05/01/05 8:00 05/01/05 18:00
>
>This basically shows that client 1 has two confirmed(C) visits from 8 to
>9:45 and from 16:00 to 17:15, there is also one unconfirmed(U) visit
>somewhere between 17:00 and 18:00 and clients availability(A) for this day
>is from 8am to 6pm.