Drag and drop-able organization chart

Question

Hi,

I just want to get some advices and inputs here. I have to generate an organization chart, in my asp.net application and it should supports drag and drop feature to update the linkage between organization structure. What would be the best way to deal with it, (jQuery or silver light or .net chart controls). My primary needs is to support drag and drop.

Thanks Thurein

Answer 1

Silverlight or ASP.NET with JQuery would be your best bet here. I'm not sure if there are any existing controls for this kind of scenario, but in Silverlight you should be able to get things going with a restyled TreeView and some drag-and-drop logic added to it. I'm not familiar with JQuery, so I can't help you with that.

Answer 2

Silverlight. Start with a sample project that basically re-styles a TreeView into an org-chart. The details and scope of this alone is complex enough, so just find it on the www and start with that as a base solution (it's out there somewhere.

Then work on the drag 'n drop (this is assuming you have knowledge of Silverlight of course, as i've mentioned before this is not something for Silverlight-beginners).

Answer 3

Google Chart Tools - Visualization: Organizational Chart

...together with jQuery UI Draggable.

Answer 4

You can use Silverlight for drag and drop.
Canvas control of Silverlight provide all functionality for that.
Also if you have some information(controls) on your asp.net page, which you may bee needed for drag and drop part, you can gat it. You can find this on 13-th chapter of Pro Silverlight 3 book.