Adjust time unit

When rendering MS Project documents GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud tries to find optimal output size and time unit depending on the project’s overall length. In case you need to set your own page size or time unit, you can set ProjectManagementOptions class properties class as shown in code samples below. Time unit refers to smallest unit (days, third of a month or month) used in timescale bar. When the TimeUnit.Days is selected, you will get the most detailed view of your tasks. Whereas, when TimeUnit.Month is selected, you will get the more general representation of tasks.

The TimeUnit enumeration contains the following members:

  • Unknown - The unknown, unspecified time scale
  • Days - The one day interval
  • ThirdsOfMonths - The one third of the month
  • Months - The one month interval

The following code samples show how to render MS Project document by time intervals.

API Usage

There are steps that usage of GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud consists of:

  1. Upload input document into cloud storage
  2. Render document or get document info
  3. Download rendered document from storage

Steps 1 and 3 are storage operations, please refer to this File API documentation for usage details.

Swagger UI lets you call this REST API directly from the browser.

cURL example


# First get JSON Web Token
# Please get your Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud/applications. Kindly place Client Id in "client_id" and Client Secret in "client_secret" argument.
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/connect/token" \
-X POST \
-d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=xxxx&client_secret=xxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

# cURL example to get document information
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/view" \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <jwt token>"
-d "{
  'FileInfo': {
    'FilePath': 'SampleFiles/sample.mpp'
  },
  'ViewFormat': 'HTML',
  'RenderOptions': {
    'ProjectManagementOptions': {
      'TimeUnit' : 'Days'
    }
  }
}"
{
  "pages": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "resources": null,
      "path": "viewer/sample_mpp/sample_page_1.html",
      "downloadUrl": "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/storage/file/viewer/sample_mpp/sample_page_1.html"
    }
  ],
  "attachments": [],
  "file": null
}

SDK examples

The API is completely independent of your operating system, database system or development language. We provide and support API SDKs in many development languages in order to make it even easier to integrate. You can see our available SDKs list here.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-dotnet-samples
string MyClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
string MyClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

var configuration = new Configuration(MyClientId, MyClientSecret);
var apiInstance = new ViewApi(configuration);

var viewOptions = new ViewOptions
{
    FileInfo = new FileInfo
    {
        FilePath = "SampleFiles/sample.mpp"
    },
    ViewFormat = ViewOptions.ViewFormatEnum.HTML,
    RenderOptions = new HtmlOptions
    {
        ProjectManagementOptions = new ProjectManagementOptions
        {
            TimeUnit = ProjectManagementOptions.TimeUnitEnum.Days
        }
    }
};

var response = apiInstance.CreateView(new CreateViewRequest(viewOptions));
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-php-samples
use GroupDocs\Viewer\Model;
use GroupDocs\Viewer\Model\Requests;

$ClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$ClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

$configuration = new GroupDocs\Viewer\Configuration();
$configuration->setAppSid($ClientId);
$configuration->setAppKey($ClientSecret);

$apiInstance = new GroupDocs\Viewer\ViewApi($configuration);

$viewOptions = new Model\ViewOptions();
$fileInfo = new Model\FileInfo();
$fileInfo->setFilePath("SampleFiles/sample.mpp");
$viewOptions->setFileInfo($fileInfo);
$viewOptions->setViewFormat(Model\ViewOptions::VIEW_FORMAT_HTML);
$renderOptions = new Model\HtmlOptions();
$projectManagementOptions = new Model\ProjectManagementOptions();
$projectManagementOptions->setTimeUnit(Model\ProjectManagementOptions::TIME_UNIT_DAYS);
$renderOptions->setProjectManagementOptions($projectManagementOptions);
$viewOptions->setRenderOptions($renderOptions);

$request = new Requests\CreateViewRequest($viewOptions);
$response = $apiInstance->createView($request);
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-java-samples
string MyClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
string MyClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

Configuration configuration = new Configuration(MyClientId, MyClientSecret);
ViewApi apiInstance = new ViewApi(configuration);

FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo();
fileInfo.setFilePath("SampleFiles/sample.mpp");
ViewOptions viewOptions = new ViewOptions();
viewOptions.setFileInfo(fileInfo);
viewOptions.setViewFormat(ViewFormatEnum.HTML);
HtmlOptions renderOptions = new HtmlOptions();
ProjectManagementOptions projectManagementOptions = new ProjectManagementOptions();
projectManagementOptions.setTimeUnit(TimeUnitEnum.DAYS);
renderOptions.setProjectManagementOptions(projectManagementOptions);
viewOptions.setRenderOptions(renderOptions);

ViewResult response = apiInstance.createView(new CreateViewRequest(viewOptions));
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-ruby-samples
require 'groupdocs_viewer_cloud'

$client_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

apiInstance = GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewApi.from_keys($client_id, $client_secret)

viewOptions = GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewOptions.new
viewOptions.file_info = GroupDocsViewerCloud::FileInfo.new
viewOptions.file_info.file_path = "SampleFiles/sample.mpp"
viewOptions.view_format = "HTML"
viewOptions.render_options = GroupDocsViewerCloud::HtmlOptions.new
viewOptions.render_options.project_management_options = GroupDocsViewerCloud::ProjectManagementOptions.new
viewOptions.render_options.project_management_options.time_unit = "Days"

request = GroupDocsViewerCloud::CreateViewRequest.new(viewOptions)
response = apiInstance.create_view(request)
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-node-samples
global.viewer# require("groupdocs-viewer-cloud");

global.clientId = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
global.clientSecret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

global.viewApi = viewer_cloud.ViewApi.fromKeys(clientId, clientSecret);

let fileInfo = new viewer_cloud.FileInfo();
fileInfo.filePath = "SampleFiles/sample.mpp";
let viewOptions = new viewer_cloud.ViewOptions();
viewOptions.fileInfo = fileInfo;
viewOptions.viewFormat = viewer_cloud.ViewOptions.ViewFormatEnum.HTML;
viewOptions.renderOptions = new viewer_cloud.HtmlOptions();
viewOptions.renderOptions.projectManagementOptions = new viewer_cloud.ProjectManagementOptions();
viewOptions.renderOptions.projectManagementOptions.timeUnit = viewer_cloud.ProjectManagementOptions.TimeUnitEnum.Days;

let request = new viewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(viewOptions);
let response = await viewApi.createView(request);
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-python-samples
import groupdocs_viewer_cloud

client_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

apiInstance = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewApi.from_keys(client_id, client_secret)

view_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewOptions()
view_options.file_info = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.FileInfo()
view_options.file_info.file_path = "SampleFiles/sample.mpp"
view_options.view_format = "HTML"
view_options.render_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.HtmlOptions()
view_options.render_options.project_management_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ProjectManagementOptions()
view_options.render_options.project_management_options.time_unit = "Days"

request = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(view_options)
response = apiInstance.create_view(request)