Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@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