On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:37:07 +0100, Christian Egli wrote: > Shelagh Manton <shelagh.man...@gmail.com> 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 \"$...@\"))" -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 [snip] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
