[Orgmode] Re: org and taskjuggler

[Shelagh Manton]

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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