[O] Creating Gantt charts by Exporting to TaskJuggler 3.3.0

Discussion:

Sebastien Vauban

2012-09-14 13:13:23 UTC

Hello,

I'm trying to use the export to TJ3 on Windows (I installed Ruby from Cygwin),
but don't succeed to get the first view of the project, as shown on
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html.

I'm using the very first example given at line "Your resulting Org mode
project file will look somewhat like the following:", add the required tag
:taskjuggler_project: to the node "Accounting Software".

Then, I export it to TJ (C-c C-e j) and run tj3 against it:

$ tj3 org-tj3.tjp

Results:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
by Chris Schlaeger <***@linux.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.

org-tj3.tjp:11: Error: allocations is not a known attribute for this property
purge allocations
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I comment the purge "allocation line", and try to run it further...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
by Chris Schlaeger <***@linux.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.

org-tj3.tjp:70: Warning: The keyword 'hierarchindex' has been deprecated! See the reference manual for details.
columns hierarchindex
org-tj3.tjp:70: Warning: The keyword 'completed' has been deprecated! See the reference manual for details.
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, completed
org-tj3.tjp:77: Error: Unexpected token 'utilization' found. Expecting one of 'activetasks', 'annualleave', 'annualleavebalance', 'alert', 'alertmessages', 'alertsummaries', 'alerttrend', 'balance', 'bsi', 'chart', 'closedtasks', 'complete', 'completed', 'criticalness', 'cost', 'daily', 'directreports', 'duration', 'duties', 'efficiency', 'effort', 'effortdone', 'effortleft', 'email', 'end', 'flags', 'followers', 'freetime', 'freework', 'fte', 'gauge', 'headcount', 'hierarchindex', 'hourly', 'id', 'index', 'inputs', 'journal', 'journal_sub', 'journalmessages', 'journalsummaries', 'line', 'managers', 'maxend', 'maxstart', 'minend', 'minstart', 'monthly', 'no', 'name', 'note', 'opentasks', 'pathcriticalness', 'precursors', 'priority', 'quarterly', 'rate', 'reports', 'resources', 'responsible', 'revenue', 'scenario', 'seqno', 'sickleave', 'specialleave', 'start', 'status', 'targets', 'wbs', 'unpaidleave', 'weekly', 'yearly'
columns no, name, utilization
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So, it seems that the output file is not up-to-date (tj v3.3.0), or do I miss
something?

Best regards,
Seb

PS - Org-mode version 7.9.1 (release_7.9.1-199-g6589b9 @ d:/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp/)

--
Sebastien Vauban

Buddy Butterfly

2012-09-14 13:26:26 UTC

Permalink

Hi,

tj3 support is still buggy. And tj export gets confused with the task_id
tags.
It does not generate unique IDs nor does it have manual ID marking. So
it gets
scrampled. So, for a bigger project it does not really work.

Verify to use

*Org Export Taskjuggler Target Version:
*
3.0

I have used the following settings with M-x customize-group ->
org-export-taskjuggler
and worked for me as a first shot with tj3:

*Org Export Taskjuggler Default Global Properties:
*
shift s40 "Part time shift" {
workinghours wed, thu, fri off
}

account cost "Project Cost" {
aggregate tasks
}

account rev "Payments" {
}

*Org Export Taskjuggler Default Reports:*

# Now the project has been specified completely. Stopping here would
# result in a valid TaskJuggler file that could be processed and
# scheduled. But no reports would be generated to visualize the
# results.

navigator navbar {
hidereport @none
}

macro TaskTip [
tooltip istask() -8<-
'''Start: ''' <-query attribute='start'->
'''End: ''' <-query attribute='end'->
----
'''Resources:'''

<-query attribute='resources'->
----
'''Precursors: '''

<-query attribute='precursors'->
----
'''Followers: '''

<-query attribute='followers'->
->8-
]

textreport frame "" {
header -8<-
== mwit Projects ==
<[navigator id="navbar"]>
->8-
footer "----"
textreport index "Overview" {
formats html
center '<[report id="overview"]>'
}

textreport "Status" {
formats html
center -8<-
<[report id="status.dashboard"]>
----
<[report id="status.completed"]>
----
<[report id="status.ongoing"]>
----
<[report id="status.future"]>
->8-
}

textreport development "Development" {
formats html
center '<[report id="development"]>'
}

textreport "ContactList" {
formats html
title "Contact List"
center '<[report id="contactList"]>'
}
textreport "ResourceGraph" {
formats html
title "Resource Graph"
center '<[report id="resourceGraph"]>'
}
}

# A traditional Gantt chart with a project overview.
taskreport overview "" {
header -8<-
=== Project Overview ===

The project is structured into 3 phases.

# Specification
# <-reportlink id='frame.development'->
# Testing

=== Original Project Plan ===
->8-
columns bsi { title 'WBS' },
name, start, end, effort, cost,
revenue, chart { ${TaskTip} }
# For this report we like to have the abbreviated weekday in front
# of the date. %a is the tag for this.
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource @all
balance cost rev
caption 'All effort values are in man days.'

footer -8<-
=== Staffing ===

All project phases are properly staffed. See [[ResourceGraph]] for
detailed resource allocations.

=== Current Status ===

The project started off with a delay of 4 days. This slightly affected
the original schedule. See [[Deliveries]] for the impact on the
delivery dates.
->8-
}

# Macro to set the background color of a cell according to the alert
# level of the task.
macro AlertColor [
cellcolor plan.alert = 0 "#00D000" # green
cellcolor plan.alert = 1 "#D0D000" # yellow
cellcolor plan.alert = 2 "#D00000" # red
]

taskreport status "" {
columns bsi { width 50 title 'WBS' }, name { width 150 },
start { width 100 }, end { width 100 },
effort { width 100 },
alert { tooltip plan.journal
!= '' "<-query attribute='journal'->" width 150 },
status { width 150 }

taskreport dashboard "" {
headline "Project Dashboard (<-query attribute='now'->)"
columns name { title "Task" ${AlertColor} width 200},
resources { width 200 ${AlertColor}
listtype bullets
listitem "<-query attribute='name'->"
start ${projectstart} end ${projectend} },
alerttrend { title "Trend" ${AlertColor} width 50 },
journal { width 350 ${AlertColor} }
journalmode status_up
journalattributes headline, author, date, summary, details
hidetask ~hasalert(0)
sorttasks alert.down
period %{${now} - 1w} +8w
}
taskreport completed "" {
headline "Already completed tasks"
hidetask ~(plan.end <= ${now})
}
taskreport ongoing "" {
headline "Ongoing tasks"
hidetask ~((plan.start <= ${now}) & (plan.end > ${now}))
}
taskreport future "" {
headline "Future tasks"
hidetask ~(plan.start > ${now})
}
}

# A list of tasks showing the resources assigned to each task.
taskreport development "" {
headline "Development - Resource Allocation Report"
columns bsi { title 'WBS' }, name, start, end, effort { title "Work" },
duration, chart { ${TaskTip} scale day width 500 }
timeformat "%Y-%m-%d"
hideresource ~(isleaf() & isleaf_())
sortresources name.up
}

# A list of all employees with their contact details.
resourcereport contactList "" {
headline "Contact list and duty plan"
columns name,
email { celltext 1 "[mailto:<-email-> <-email->]" },
managers { title "Manager" },
chart { scale day }
hideresource ~isleaf()
sortresources name.up
hidetask @all
}

# A graph showing resource allocation. It identifies whether each
# resource is under- or over-allocated for.
resourcereport resourceGraph "" {
headline "Resource Allocation Graph"
columns no, name, effort, rate, weekly { ${TaskTip} }
loadunit shortauto
# We only like to show leaf tasks for leaf resources.
hidetask ~(isleaf() & isleaf_())
sorttasks plan.start.up
}

Post by Sebastien Vauban
Hello,
I'm trying to use the export to TJ3 on Windows (I installed Ruby from Cygwin),
but don't succeed to get the first view of the project, as shown on
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html.
I'm using the very first example given at line "Your resulting Org mode
project file will look somewhat like the following:", add the required tag
:taskjuggler_project: to the node "Accounting Software".
$ tj3 org-tj3.tjp
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.
org-tj3.tjp:11: Error: allocations is not a known attribute for this property
purge allocations
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I comment the purge "allocation line", and try to run it further...
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.
org-tj3.tjp:70: Warning: The keyword 'hierarchindex' has been deprecated! See the reference manual for details.
columns hierarchindex
org-tj3.tjp:70: Warning: The keyword 'completed' has been deprecated! See the reference manual for details.
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, completed
org-tj3.tjp:77: Error: Unexpected token 'utilization' found. Expecting one of 'activetasks', 'annualleave', 'annualleavebalance', 'alert', 'alertmessages', 'alertsummaries', 'alerttrend', 'balance', 'bsi', 'chart', 'closedtasks', 'complete', 'completed', 'criticalness', 'cost', 'daily', 'directreports', 'duration', 'duties', 'efficiency', 'effort', 'effortdone', 'effortleft', 'email', 'end', 'flags', 'followers', 'freetime', 'freework', 'fte', 'gauge', 'headcount', 'hierarchindex', 'hourly', 'id', 'index', 'inputs', 'journal', 'journal_sub', 'journalmessages', 'journalsummaries', 'line', 'managers', 'maxend', 'maxstart', 'minend', 'minstart', 'monthly', 'no', 'name', 'note', 'opentasks', 'pathcriticalness', 'precursors', 'priority', 'quarterly', 'rate', 'reports', 'resources', 'responsible', 'revenue', 'scenario', 'seqno', 'sickleave', 'specialleave', 'start', 'status', 'targets', 'wbs', 'unpaidleave', 'weekly', 'yearly'
columns no, name, utilization
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So, it seems that the output file is not up-to-date (tj v3.3.0), or do I miss
something?
Best regards,
Seb

Sebastien Vauban

2012-09-14 14:38:58 UTC

Permalink

Hi Buddy,

Post by Buddy Butterfly

Post by Sebastien Vauban
I'm trying to use the export to TJ3 on Windows (I installed Ruby from Cygwin),
but don't succeed to get the first view of the project, as shown on
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.
org-tj3.tjp:11: Error: allocations is not a known attribute for this property
purge allocations
org-tj3.tjp:70: Warning: The keyword 'hierarchindex' has been deprecated! See the reference manual for details.
columns hierarchindex
org-tj3.tjp:70: Warning: The keyword 'completed' has been deprecated! See the reference manual for details.
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, completed
org-tj3.tjp:77: Error: Unexpected token 'utilization' found. Expecting one of 'activetasks', 'annualleave', 'annualleavebalance', 'alert', 'alertmessages', 'alertsummaries', 'alerttrend', 'balance', 'bsi', 'chart', 'closedtasks', 'complete', 'completed', 'criticalness', 'cost', 'daily', 'directreports', 'duration', 'duties', 'efficiency', 'effort', 'effortdone', 'effortleft', 'email', 'end', 'flags', 'followers', 'freetime', 'freework', 'fte', 'gauge', 'headcount', 'hierarchindex', 'hourly', 'id', 'index', 'inputs', 'journal', 'journal_sub', 'journalmessages', 'journalsummaries', 'line', 'managers', 'maxend', 'maxstart', 'minend', 'minstart', 'monthly', 'no', 'name', 'note', 'opentasks', 'pathcriticalness', 'precursors', 'priority', 'quarterly', 'rate', 'reports', 'resources', 'responsible', 'revenue', 'scenario', 'seqno', 'sickleave', 'specialleave', 'start', 'status', 'targets', 'wbs', 'unpaidleave', 'weekly', 'yearly' columns no, name, utilization
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So, it seems that the output file is not up-to-date (tj v3.3.0), or do I miss
something?

tj3 support is still buggy. And tj export gets confused with the task_id
tags. It does not generate unique IDs nor does it have manual ID marking. So
it gets scrampled. So, for a bigger project it does not really work.
Verify to use
*Org Export Taskjuggler Target Version: ...
*Org Export Taskjuggler Default Global Properties: ...
*Org Export Taskjuggler Default Reports: ...

I'm going further:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
by Chris Schlaeger <***@linux.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.

Reading file org-tj3.tjp [ Done ]
Preparing scenario Plan Scenario [ Done ]
Scheduling scenario Plan Scenario [ Done ]
Checking scenario Plan Scenario [ Done ]
org-tj3.tjp:103: Warning: The report frame has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:109: Warning: The report frame.index has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:114: Warning: The report frame.report3 has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:127: Warning: The report frame.development has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:132: Warning: The report frame.report5 has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:137: Warning: The report frame.report6 has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:190: Warning: The report status has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:198: Warning: The report status.dashboard has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:213: Warning: The report status.completed has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:217: Warning: The report status.ongoing has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:221: Warning: The report status.future has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:228: Warning: The report development has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:238: Warning: The report contactList has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:251: Warning: The report resourceGraph has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
Report Overview [ Done ]
Report Status [ Done ]
Report Development [ Done ]
Report ContactList [ Done ]
Report ResourceGraph [ Done ]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But no GUI or whatever gets launched!?

Best regards,
Seb

--
Sebastien Vauban

Buddy Butterfly

2012-09-14 15:00:12 UTC

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Hi Seb,

ah, true, that is pretty anoying. Also is for me.
There is no GUI anymore for tj3. It is meant to be only exported.
So you should find some html structures being generated.

Best regards,
Matt

Post by Sebastien Vauban
Hi Buddy,

Post by Buddy Butterfly

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
TaskJuggler v3.3.0 - A Project Management Software
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.
Reading file org-tj3.tjp [ Done ]
Preparing scenario Plan Scenario [ Done ]
Scheduling scenario Plan Scenario [ Done ]
Checking scenario Plan Scenario [ Done ]
org-tj3.tjp:103: Warning: The report frame has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:109: Warning: The report frame.index has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:114: Warning: The report frame.report3 has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:127: Warning: The report frame.development has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:132: Warning: The report frame.report5 has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:137: Warning: The report frame.report6 has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:190: Warning: The report status has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:198: Warning: The report status.dashboard has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:213: Warning: The report status.completed has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:217: Warning: The report status.ongoing has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:221: Warning: The report status.future has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:228: Warning: The report development has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:238: Warning: The report contactList has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
org-tj3.tjp:251: Warning: The report resourceGraph has no 'balance' defined. No cost or revenue computation will be possible.
Report Overview [ Done ]
Report Status [ Done ]
Report Development [ Done ]
Report ContactList [ Done ]
Report ResourceGraph [ Done ]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
But no GUI or whatever gets launched!?
Best regards,
Seb

Giovanni Ridolfi

2012-09-14 15:09:03 UTC

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Hi, Seb,

almost one month ago Yann Hodique proposed 10 patches for the taskjuggler exporter,
please see:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/58851

Bastien has a branch with these patches, but he'll apply them
when he will have received the FSF papers signed.
I hope soon :-)

But I'm pretty sure you can apply them to your file.

cheers,

Giovanni

Buddy Butterfly

2012-09-14 15:13:31 UTC

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Hi Giovanni,

thanks for info. I will give this a try when I'll find the time.
At the moment, because of the scrambled handling of task_ids it
is not really usable. Let's see what he fixed in it.

Best regards,
Matt

Post by Giovanni Ridolfi
Hi, Seb,

almost one month ago Yann Hodique proposed 10 patches for the taskjuggler exporter,
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/58851
Bastien has a branch with these patches, but he'll apply them
when he will have received the FSF papers signed.
I hope soon :-)
But I'm pretty sure you can apply them to your file.
cheers,
Giovanni

Yann Hodique

2012-09-14 15:55:07 UTC

Permalink

Post by Buddy Butterfly

Post by Giovanni Ridolfi

Post by Giovanni Ridolfi
Hi, Seb,
almost one month ago Yann Hodique proposed 10 patches for the taskjuggler exporter,
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/58851
Bastien has a branch with these patches, but he'll apply them
when he will have received the FSF papers signed.
I hope soon :-)
But I'm pretty sure you can apply them to your file.
cheers,

Giovanni

Hi Giovanni,
thanks for info. I will give this a try when I'll find the time.
At the moment, because of the scrambled handling of task_ids it
is not really usable. Let's see what he fixed in it.

Hi,

actually, those patches have been merged in master already (now that the
paperwork is in order :))

That said, I don't think it'll fix anything regarding task_id handling.
I started using TJ with versions 3.x, so I'm not sure what problem
you're talking about exactly.

At the moment I'm kinda contemplating doing a major rewrite of the TJ
exporter to use the org-export framework, which would make it easier to
introduce things like task references through org links, and so on. If
I can fix a thing or two in the process, I'd be happy to. So, if you
have specific limitations in mind, feel free to elaborate.

Cheers,

Yann.

--
All technology is suspect, and must be considered potentially dangerous.

-- BUTLERIAN JIHAD, Handbook for Our Grandchildren

Buddy Butterfly

2012-09-14 16:06:25 UTC

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Hi Yann,

thanks a lot for your effort.
This really sound very interesting. And I am willed to report
further issues to you. I will try to nail them down more precisely.

The biggest change I would do is to make the properties more generic.
Something like prefixing all properties with a special prefix (configurable)
like "tj_" and just pass them all over to tj. This would allow the user
to use all properties that are, were and will be available for tj
versions and
not having the exporter document.... we support this and that property
in this and
that version of tj....

Best regards,
Matt

Post by Yann Hodique

Post by Buddy Butterfly

Post by Giovanni Ridolfi

Giovanni

Hi Giovanni,
thanks for info. I will give this a try when I'll find the time.
At the moment, because of the scrambled handling of task_ids it
is not really usable. Let's see what he fixed in it.

Hi,
actually, those patches have been merged in master already (now that the
paperwork is in order :))
That said, I don't think it'll fix anything regarding task_id handling.
I started using TJ with versions 3.x, so I'm not sure what problem
you're talking about exactly.
At the moment I'm kinda contemplating doing a major rewrite of the TJ
exporter to use the org-export framework, which would make it easier to
introduce things like task references through org links, and so on. If
I can fix a thing or two in the process, I'd be happy to. So, if you
have specific limitations in mind, feel free to elaborate.
Cheers,
Yann.

Buddy Butterfly

2013-03-31 16:06:11 UTC

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Hi Guys,

long time ago, but I tried again to go into taskjuggling with
org-mode.

I still feel the lack of the support for all tj properties a
major drawback.

@Christian: Did you work on something like the prefix proposal below?
This would be real cool as we could then just use any property we would
like.

Thanks and best regards,
Matt

Post by Buddy Butterfly
Hi Yann,
thanks a lot for your effort.
This really sound very interesting. And I am willed to report
further issues to you. I will try to nail them down more precisely.
The biggest change I would do is to make the properties more generic.
Something like prefixing all properties with a special prefix (configurable)
like "tj_" and just pass them all over to tj. This would allow the user
to use all properties that are, were and will be available for tj
versions and
not having the exporter document.... we support this and that property
in this and
that version of tj....
Best regards,
Matt

Post by Yann Hodique

Post by Buddy Butterfly

Post by Giovanni Ridolfi

Giovanni

Hi Giovanni,
thanks for info. I will give this a try when I'll find the time.
At the moment, because of the scrambled handling of task_ids it
is not really usable. Let's see what he fixed in it.

Hi,
actually, those patches have been merged in master already (now that the
paperwork is in order :))
That said, I don't think it'll fix anything regarding task_id handling.
I started using TJ with versions 3.x, so I'm not sure what problem
you're talking about exactly.
At the moment I'm kinda contemplating doing a major rewrite of the TJ
exporter to use the org-export framework, which would make it easier to
introduce things like task references through org links, and so on. If
I can fix a thing or two in the process, I'd be happy to. So, if you
have specific limitations in mind, feel free to elaborate.
Cheers,
Yann.

Christian Egli

2013-04-02 15:46:18 UTC

Permalink

Post by Buddy Butterfly
I still feel the lack of the support for all tj properties a
major drawback.
@Christian: Did you work on something like the prefix proposal below?
This would be real cool as we could then just use any property we would
like.

As far as I know Yann's patches improved this situation, but as far as I
know most of the tj properties are supported anyway. Can you specify
which properties are missing? It should be easy to add them in many
cases.

Thanks
Christian

--
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

John Hendy

2013-04-02 16:51:34 UTC

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Post by Christian Egli

I meant to follow up on this general idea per your comment in another
thread. I would have responded over there, but this is fresher and
seems like a better fit for a response. Nevertheless, I'll link to it
for a bread crumb trail.
- http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-***@gnu.org/msg68957.html

This was the bit I specifically wanted to comment on:

#+begin_quote Buddy Butterfly
Also, you will likely only implement subsets of tj
properties.

For example, there are properties missing like

:workinghours:
#+end_quote

Have you looked at ox-taskjuggler.el? Here are the properties
available (check in org-taskjuggler-valid-resource-attributes):

#+begin_src ox-taskjuggler.el

(defcustom org-taskjuggler-valid-task-attributes
'(account start note duration endbuffer endcredit end
flags journalentry length limits maxend maxstart minend
minstart period reference responsible scheduling
startbuffer startcredit statusnote chargeset charge)
"Valid attributes for Taskjuggler tasks.
If one of these appears as a property for a headline, it will be
exported with the corresponding task."
:group 'org-export-taskjuggler)

(defcustom org-taskjuggler-valid-resource-attributes
'(limits vacation shift booking efficiency journalentry rate
workinghours flags)
"Valid attributes for Taskjuggler resources.
If one of these appears as a property for a headline, it will be
exported with the corresponding resource."
:group 'org-export-taskjuggler)

(defcustom org-taskjuggler-valid-report-attributes
'(headline columns definitions timeformat hideresource hidetask
loadunit sorttasks formats period)
"Valid attributes for Taskjuggler reports.
If one of these appears as a property for a headline, it will be
exported with the corresponding report."
:group 'org-export-taskjuggler)

#+end_src

Also note that this is customizable. Anything matching those criteria
just gets passed through (:drawer: value -> task_id "name" { drawer
value }).

Best regards,
John

Post by Christian Egli
Thanks
Christian
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Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

Bastien

2012-09-18 06:50:24 UTC

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Hi Yann,

Post by Yann Hodique
At the moment I'm kinda contemplating doing a major rewrite of the TJ
exporter to use the org-export framework, which would make it easier to
introduce things like task references through org links, and so on.

That'd be great!

Post by Yann Hodique
If I can fix a thing or two in the process, I'd be happy to. So, if
you have specific limitations in mind, feel free to elaborate.

You'll surely fix more than one or two things in the process :)

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Bastien

John Hendy

2012-09-18 14:33:03 UTC

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Post by Buddy Butterfly
Hi Yann,

You might want to take a look at this thread on the TJ mailing list:
- https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/taskjuggler-users/je_XP1VfYXA

And the matching git repo with a TJ -> pgfgantt -> pdf converter:
- https://github.com/ravl1084/TJ2PDF

It's quite nice. I just used it myself. I think it has some bugs, but
they are pretty easily fixable. Anyway, perhaps take a look and try it
out to see if you think it could add any value to what you're trying
to accomplish. I think I'll continue using it, as the result is quite
pleasing.

Thanks for your work on this!
John

Post by Buddy Butterfly
That'd be great!

Post by Yann Hodique
If I can fix a thing or two in the process, I'd be happy to. So, if
you have specific limitations in mind, feel free to elaborate.

You'll surely fix more than one or two things in the process :)
--
Bastien

Christian Egli

2012-09-25 12:36:23 UTC

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Post by Yann Hodique
At the moment I'm kinda contemplating doing a major rewrite of the TJ
exporter to use the org-export framework

That might be a good idea. The currect tj exporter doesn't use any of
the exporting framework. OTOH it is not really a classic exporter in the
sense that it exports the content. Instead it uses the headlines as
nodes and exports those using some conventions. If this can be handled
with the new exporter then sure go for it.

Thanks
Christian

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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

Christian Egli

2012-09-25 12:33:20 UTC

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Post by Buddy Butterfly
thanks for info. I will give this a try when I'll find the time.
At the moment, because of the scrambled handling of task_ids it
is not really usable.

What exactly is the problem with the handling of task_ids?

Thanks
Christian

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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland