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Foreword

First of all, thanks a lot for wesnolte's great work:blush: -- jOrgChart. The thought that using nested tables to build out the tree-like orgonization chart is amazing. This idea is more simple and direct than its counterparts based on svg Unfortunately, it's long time not to see the update of jOrgChart. on the other hand, I got some interesting ideas to add, so I choose to create a new repo. Since version 3.0, we use nested ul to construct tree-like chart instead of nested table.

Features

• Supports both local data and remote data (JSON).
• Smooth expand/collapse effects based on CSS3 transitions.
• Align the chart in 4 orientations.
• Allows user to change orgchart structure by drag/drop nodes.
• Allows user to edit orgchart dynamically and save the final hierarchy as a JSON object.
• Supports exporting chart as a picture or pdf document.
• Supports pan and zoom.
• Allows user to customize the internal structure for every node.
• Users can adopt multiple solutions to build up a huge organization chart(please refer to multiple-layers or hybrid layout sections).
• touch-enabled plugin for mobile device.

CDN

Users could find the related CDN support for OrgChart's CSS and JavaScript.

https://cdnjs.com/libraries/orgchart

Installation

Of course, you can directly use the standalone build by including dist/js/jquery.orgchart.js and dist/css/jquery.orgchart.css in your webapps.

Install with Bower

# From version 1.0.2 on, users can install orgchart and add it to bower.json dependencies
$ bower install orgchart

Install with npm

# From version 1.0.4 on, users can install orgchart with npm
$ npm install orgchart

require('orgchart') will load orgchart plugin onto the jQuery object. The orgchart module itself does not export anything.

Demos on github pages

Demos based on nested table

Demos based on nested ul

online demos

• using ul datasource(this feature comes from Tobyee's good idea:blush:)

• using local datasource

• I wanna pan&zoom the orgchart

• I wanna align orgchart with different orientation**(this feature comes from the good idea of fvlima and badulesia 😊)

  Top to Bottom -- default direction, as you can see all other examples on this page.

  Bottom to Top

  Left to Right

  Right to Left

• I wanna show/hide left/right sibling nodes respectively by clicking left/right arrow

• I wanna load datasource through ajax

• I wanna load data on-demand

Note: when users use ajaxURL option to build orghchart, they must use json datasource(both local and remote are OK) and set the relationship property of datasource by themselves. All of these staff are used to generate the correct expanding/collapsing arrows for nodes.

• I wanna customize the structure of node

• I wanna export the organization chart as a picture

Here, we need the help from html2canvas.

Note:

(1) if you wanna export something in IE or Edge, please introduce es6-promise.auto.js firstly.

(2) if your OS is windows, please check your display scaling settings. For the perfact exported picture, you'd better adjust "Change the size of text, apps, and other items" to 100%.(thanks for sayamkrai's exploration)

(3) Besides, if you wanna export a pdf format or your orgchart includes picture, you have to introduce jspdf and set "exportFileextension" option to "pdf".

• I wanna export the orgchart with nodes containing pictures

You need to set crossorigin to anonymous for your img tags.

• I wanna itegrate organization chart with geographic information

Here, we fall back on OpenLayers. It's the most aewsome open-source js library for Web GIS you sholdn't miss.

• I wanna edit orgchart

With the help of exposed core methods(addParent(), addSiblings(), addChildren(), removeNodes()) of orgchart plugin, we can finish this task easily.

• I wanna drag & drop the nodes of orgchart

Users are allowed to drag & drop the nodes of orgchart when option "draggable" is assigned to true(Note: this feature doesn't work on IE due to its poor support for HTML5 drag & drop API).

Furthermore, users can make use of option dropCriteria to inject their custom limitations on drag & drop. As shown below, we don't want an manager employee to be under a engineer under no circumstance.

• I want a method that can describe the hierarchy of orgchart

That's where getHierarchy() comes in.

• I want a color-coded chart

It's a so easy task, we just need to append id or className property to node data.

• I want a multiple-layers chart

In fact, this is a wonderful solution to display a orgchart which includes a huge number of node data.

• I want a hybrid(horizontal + vertical) chart

This feature is inspired by the issues(Aligning Children Vertical, Hybrid(horizontal + vertical) OrgChart). Thank mfahadi and Destructrix for their constructive suggestions:blush: Special thanks to tedliang for his wonderful hybrid mode solution.

From now on, users never have to worry about how to align a huge of nodes in one screen of browser. The option "verticalLevel" allows users to align child nodes vertically from the given level.

Note: currently, this option is incompatible with many other options or methods, like direction, drag&drop, addChildren(), removeNodes(), getHierarchy() and so on. These conflicts will be solved one by one in the later versions.

• I want to collapse some nodes by default

No problem. You just need to adjust a little detail of datasource with the help of option "collapse" and className "slide-up".

• I want to refresh orgchart base on new options or datasource

It's not a big deal. You just turn to the method init().

• I want to use complex template to customize the internal structure of every node

No problem. With the help of ES6 Template literals, we can customize the any complex node structure rather than the common title and content sections.

• I want to position node in specific level. How can i do that ?

You need the solution based on new datasource structure with levelOffset data prop + callback createNode() + CSS custom properties(variables)

• I want a orgchart with nodes of different widths

• I want to drag&drop in the hybrid chart

• I only want specific children of a certain branch of the chart to be displayed as vertical. Is it possible to set VerticalLevel by data?

hybrid data property is designed for your use case. Once node data includes a "hybrid" prop with truthy value, its descendant nodes will be arranged vertically.

• I want to replace built-in icons with Font Awesome icons

• I want to alternate layout if children is too many

compact data property is designed for your use case. Once node data includes a "compact" prop with truthy value, itself and its descendant nodes will be arranged with compact mode.

how to start up demos locally

• you have to install node.js v6+ because our unit tests are based on jsdom v11
• you have to install modern browsers because many behaviors of orgchart plugin are based on HTML5 and CSS3
• run npm install to install necessary dependencies
• run npm test to run all tests including unit tests, integration tests and e2e tests
• run npm run build to generate production js&css files of plugin
• run npm start to start up local web server to host all the demos

Usage

Instantiation Statement

var oc = $('#chartContainerId').orgchart(options);

Structure of Datasource

{
  'id': 'rootNode', // It's a optional property which will be used as id attribute of node
  // and data-parent attribute, which contains the id of the parent node
  'collapsed': true, // By default, the children nodes of current node is hidden.
  'className': 'top-level', // It's a optional property
  // which will be used as className attribute of node.
  'nodeTitle': 'name', // This property is used to retrieve “title” value in datasource
  'nodeContent': 'title',// This property is used to retrieve "content" value in datasource
  'relationship': relationshipValue, // Note: when you activate ondemand loading nodes feature,
  // you should use json datsource (local or remote) and set this property.
  // This property implies that whether this node has parent, siblings, children.
  // relationshipValue is a string composed of three "0/1" identifier.
  // First character stands for wether current node has parent node;
  // Scond character stands for wether current node has siblings nodes;
  // Third character stands for wether current node has children node.
  'children': [ // The property stands for nested nodes.
    { 'name': 'Bo Miao', 'title': 'department manager', 'relationship': '110' },
    { 'name': 'Su Miao', 'title': 'department manager', 'relationship': '111',
      'children': [
        { 'name': 'Tie Hua', 'title': 'senior engineer', 'relationship': '110' },
        { 'name': 'Hei Hei', 'title': 'senior engineer', 'relationship': '110' }
      ]
    },
    { 'name': 'Yu Jie', 'title': 'department manager', 'relationship': '110' }
  ],
  'otherPro': anyValue // feel free to append any useful properties
};

Data Props

Name	Type	Description
hybrid	truthy value	nodes will be arranged vertically if this property is set to true
compact	truthy value	node will be rendered with compact mode if this property is set to true

Options

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
data	json or string	yes		datasource usded to build out structure of orgchart. It could be a json object or a string containing the URL to which the ajax request is sent.
pan	boolean	no	false	Users could pan the orgchart by mouse drag&drop if they enable this option.
zoom	boolean	no	false	Users could zoomin/zoomout the orgchart by mouse wheel if they enable this option.
zoominLimit	number	no	7	Users are allowed to set a zoom-in limit.
zoomoutLimit	number	no	0.5	Users are allowed to set a zoom-out limit.
direction	string	no	"t2b"	The available values are t2b(implies "top to bottom", it's default value), b2t(implies "bottom to top"), l2r(implies "left to right"), r2l(implies "right to left").
verticalLevel	integer(>=2)	no		Users can make use of this option to align the nodes vertically from the specified level.
toggleSiblingsResp	boolean	no	false	Once enable this option, users can show/hide left/right sibling nodes respectively by clicking left/right arrow.
ajaxURL	json	no		It inclueds four properites -- parent, children, siblings, families(ask for parent node and siblings nodes). As their names imply, different propety provides the URL to which ajax request for different nodes is sent.
visibleLevel	positive integer	no	999	It indicates the level that at the very beginning orgchart is expanded to.
nodeTitle	string	no	"name"	It sets one property of datasource as text content of title section of orgchart node. In fact, users can create a simple orghcart with only nodeTitle option.
parentNodeSymbol	string	no	"oci-menu"	Using your own icon to imply that the node has child nodes.
nodeContent	string	no		It sets one property of datasource as text content of content section of orgchart node.
nodeId	string	no	"id"	It sets one property of datasource as unique identifier of every orgchart node.
nodeTemplate	function	no		It's a template generation function used to customize any complex internal structure of node. It receives only one parameter: "data" stands for json datasoure which will be used to render one node.
createNode	function	no		It's a callback function used to customize every orgchart node. It receives two parameters: "$node" stands for jquery object of single node div; "data" stands for datasource of single node.
exportButton	boolean	no	false	It enable the export button for orgchart.
exportButtonName	string	no	"Export"	It's export button name.
exportFilename	string	no	"Orgchart"	It's filename when you export current orgchart as a picture.
exportFileextension	string	no	"png"	Available values are png and pdf.
chartClass	string	no	""	when you wanna instantiate multiple orgcharts on one page, you should add diffent classname to them in order to distinguish them.
draggable	boolean	no	false	Users can drag & drop the nodes of orgchart if they enable this option. **Note**: this feature doesn't work on IE due to its poor support for HTML5 drag & drop API.
dropCriteria	function	no		Users can construct their own criteria to limit the relationships between dragged node and drop zone. Furtherly, this function accept three arguments(draggedNode, dragZone, dropZone) and just only return boolen values.
initCompleted	function	no		It can often be useful to know when your table has fully been initialised, data loaded and rendered, particularly when using an ajax data source. It receives one parament: "$chart" stands for jquery object of initialised chart.
icons	json	no		Users can use this option to plug Font Awesome icons back in. 'icons': { 'theme': 'fa-solid fa-sm', 'parentNode': 'fa-user-tie', 'expandToUp': 'fa-angles-up', 'collapseToDown': 'fa-angles-down', 'collapseToLeft': 'fa-angles-left', 'expandToRight': 'fa-angles-right', 'collapsed': 'fa-circle-plus', 'expanded': 'fa-circle-minus' }
compact	function	no		This callback is used to determine current node is wether rendered with compact mode. The node's data is passed in as a parameter. Note:The option "compact" has a higher priority than data prop "compact".

Methods

I'm sure that you can grasp the key points of the methods below after you try out demo -- edit orgchart.

var oc = $container.orgchart(options)

Embeds an organization chart in designated container. Accepts an options object and you can go through the "options" section to find which options are required. Variable oc is the instance of class OrgChart.

init(newOptions)

It's the useful way when users want to re-initialize or refresh orgchart based on new options or reload new data.

addParent(data)

Adds parent node(actullay it's always root node) for current orgchart.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
data	json object	yes		datasource for building root node

addSiblings($node, data)

Adds sibling nodes for designated node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	jquery object	yes		we'll add sibling nodes based on this node
data	array	yes		datasource for building sibling nodes

addChildren($node, data)

Adds child nodes for designed node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	jquery object	yes		we'll add child nodes based on this node
data	array	yes		datasource for building child nodes

removeNodes($node）

Removes the designated node and its descedant nodes.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	jquery object	yes		node to be removed

getHierarchy()

This method is designed to get the hierarchy relationships of orgchart for further processing. For example, after editing the orgchart, you could send the returned value of this method to server-side and save the new state of orghcart.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
includeNodeData	Boolean	No	false	This optional parameter determines whether include the nodeData items in the generated JSON object in addition to the id and children

hideParent($node)

This method allows you to hide programatically the parent node of any specific node(.node element), if it has.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to hide its parent node. Of course, its sibling nodes will be hidden at the same time

showParent($node)

This method allows you to show programatically the parent node of any specific node(.node element), if it has.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to show its parent node

hideChildren($node)

This method allows you to hide programatically the children of any specific node(.node element), if it has.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to hide its children nodes

showChildren($node)

This method allows you to show programatically the children of any specific node(.node element), if it has.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to show its children nodes

hideSiblings($node, direction)

This method allows you to hide programatically the siblings of any specific node(.node element), if it has.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to hide its siblings nodes
direction	string	No		Possible values:"left","rigth". Specifies if hide the siblings at left or rigth. If not defined hide both of them.

showSiblings($node, direction)

This method allows you to show programatically the siblings of any specific node(.node element), if it has.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to show its siblings nodes
direction	string	No		Possible values:"left","rigth". Specifies if show the siblings at left or rigth. If not defined show both of them.

getNodeState($node, relation)

This method returns you the display state of related node of the specified node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to know its related nodes' display state.
relation	String	Yes		Possible values: "parent", "children" and "siblings". Specifies the desired relation to return.

The returning object will have the following structure:

{
  "exist": true|false, // Indicates if has parent|children|siblings
  "visible":true|false, // Indicates if the relationship nodes are visible
}

getRelatedNodes($node, relation)

This method returns you the nodes related to the specified node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to know its related nodes
relation	String	Yes		Possible values: "parent", "children" and "siblings". Specifies the desired relation to return.

getParent($node)

This method returns you the parent node of the specified node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to know its parent node

getSiblings($node)

This method returns you the sibling nodes of the specified node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to know its sibling nodes

getChildren($node)

This method returns you the child nodes of the specified node.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$node	JQuery Object	Yes		It's the desired JQuery Object to know its child nodes

setChartScale($chart, newScale)

This method helps you set the specified chart with new scale.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
$chart	JQuery Object	Yes		It's a chart in your chart-container
newScale	Float	Yes		Positive float value which is used to zoom in/out the chart

export(exportFilename, exportFileextension)

This method allow you to export current orgchart as png or pdf file.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
exportFilename	String	No	'OrgChart'	It's the name of exported file
exportFileextension	String	No	'png'	It's the extension name of exported file

Events

Event Type	Additional Parameters	Description
nodedrop.orgchart	draggedNode, dragZone, dropZone	The event's handler is where you can place your customized function after node drop over. For more details, please refer to example drag & drop.
init.orgchart	chart	Initialisation complete event - fired when Organization Chart has been fully initialised and data loaded.
load-[relation].orgchart		This event is fired on a node after the onDemand loading completes.[relation] can be either parent, children or siblings.
show-[relation].orgchart		This event is fired when related nodes of a node become visible.
hide-[relation].orgchart		This event if fired when related nodes of a node are collapsed.

Tips

How can I deactivate expand/collapse feature of orgchart?

This use case is inspired by the issue. Thanks der-robert and ActiveScottShaw for their constructive discussions:blush:

Users can enable/disable exapand/collapse feature with className "noncollapsable" as shown below.

$('.orgchart').addClass('noncollapsable'); // deactivate

$('.orgchart').removeClass('noncollapsable'); // activate

Why is the root node gone?

When I have a huge orgchart with enabled "pan" option, if I hide all the children of one of the topmost parents then the chart disappear from screen. It seems that we need to add a reset button to keep the chart visible. For details, please refer to the issue opened by manuel-84 😊

Users can embed any clear up logics into the click handler of the reset buttton as shown below.

$('.orgchart').css('transform',''); // remove the tansform settings

Browser Compatibility

• Chrome 19+
• Firefox 4+
• Safari 6+
• Opera 15+
• IE 10+