Re: Business process diagrams in org-mode

From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Bart Bunting <bart@bunting.net.au>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Business process diagrams in org-mode
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:08:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=GPLsoCSyqa5ncDCDseAi+P5E57rRWDB_jhLhH@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp5sacnf.fsf@bunting.net.au>

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Hi Bart,

I think should be possible. I'm probably not the one but I think the PGF
TikZ package should work out alright. Eric Fraga from this mailing list
created a gantt chart in TikZ from a table and it makes me think that this
should definitely be possible. You could define some block shapes before
hand and tell TikZ what shape/color to make the node diagram based on the
table perhaps?

Here's a link where Eric provided his code:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824>The code was based of
this TikZ mailing list code:
http://osdir.com/ml/tex.pgf.user/2007-07/msg00007.html

<http://osdir.com/ml/tex.pgf.user/2007-07/msg00007.html>Hope that helps a
little. Eric might be able to advise a bit further? I don't know that I'd
say anything off the shelf exists, but perhaps in looking at his code it
could be done. I don't know the elisp well enough to help you further.

Good luck!
John

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Bart Bunting <bart@bunting.net.au> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is a little bit of a vague question but was hopeing that someone
> may have some pointers.
>
> I am trying to create some business processes with both textual
> descriptions of the process in a table format with step numbers and
> descriptions etc.  I was hopeing to be able to automagicaly convert the
> tabular format into a business process diagram.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has done this in the past using org-mode and
> bable some how?
>
> As I am blind I can't successfully create such diagrams using drawing
> software.  It occurred to me though that it should (could) be possible
> to create diagrams from sufficient information in a table structure.
>
> The diagrams are the usual flow chart style of thing with steps and
> descision
> points causing the flow to branch to another point.  I thought that if
> we had something like the following it may be possible to generate a
> diagram.
>
>
>
> | Step        | Description
>             | Next Steps       |
>
> |-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------|
> | Begin       | Begin the process
>             | Choice1          |
> | Choice1     | Decide if we are big or small.
>              | Big,Small        |
> | Big         | If we are big then do big things
>              | End              |
> | Small       | If we are small then figure out if we are really small or
> possibly big. | ReallySmall, Big |
> | ReallySmall | Yes we are really small
>             | End              |
> | End         | The end.
>              |                  |
>
> |-------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------|
>
>
> This would represent a process where we start, make a choice if we are big
> or small.  If we are big we do big things and end.  If we are small we make
>  a choice if we are really small or actually big.  If we decide we are
> actualy big then we go back to the big step.  If not we go on to the end.
>
>
> Anyway just thought I'd ask in case someone had a suggestion how this could
> be done using org-mode.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bart
>
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