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[Orgmode] Re: org and taskjuggler
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Shelagh Manton |
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[Orgmode] Re: org and taskjuggler |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:52:30 +0000 (UTC) |
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:37:07 +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Shelagh Manton <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> One of the set tasks for the project scenario is to produce a Gantt
>> chart.
>>
>> Or perhaps someone knows another way to get a Gantt chart out of
>> org-mode data.
>
> I'm using a very hackish "works-for-me" python script that converts a
> tsv export from an org-mode file to a taskjuggler file. Probably has
> lots of implizit assumptions which not even I remember.
>
> The basic work-flow is to create your hierarchy of tasks, add some
> effort estimates and some other properties, export this to a csv and run
> the attached python script on it. This will generate a taskjuggler
> include file (tji) which can be used in a main taskjuggler file (tjp).
>
> You could use the following Makefile snippet to automate the process:
>
> projectPlan.csv: projectPlan.org
> $(EMACS) -batch \
> -eval "(progn (find-file \"$<\") (re-search-forward \"^|
Task\")
> (org-table-export \"address@hidden"))" -kill
>
> projectPlan.tji: projectPlan.csv
> $(CSV2TASKJUGGLER) < $< > $@
>
> projectPlan.taskreport.html: projectPlan.tjp projectPlan.tji
> $(TASKJUGGLER) $<
>
> Attached is the python script, an example org file and an example for a
> tjp file. Let me know if this works for you.
>
> I meant to write a tutorial about this but you know how it is. Maybe you
> could write one as you get this to work :-)
>
> Hope this helps
> Christian
Oh very interesting. I know it will take me a while but I will look at
this closely to understand what is happening.
Another think I'm slowly working through is to understand etask which
uses LaTeX and pstricks to make a Gantt chart.
Shelagh
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