Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[John Hendy]

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Hi Eric,


While I like tj3, I was looking around for something on tikz/gantt and found
something from the pgf mailing list I thought I'd pass along. Check it out.
[1] I'll be tinkering more with this to see if some kind of table couldn't
be used to bring in the right data to form a gantt chart with tikz in
org-mode using babel. Where I'd like to go (for my purposes):

- dates generated based on first/last task (or something else)
- smart text placement (yours is varied to be next to the task; easier to go
with the standard of putting them on the left in a colum?)
- some kind of dependency denoting
- varied fonts for top level vs. sub-level items
- pretty it up

I'll futz with this and see how it goes, but did want to post what I ran
into. Here's the code from my org-mode file:

---
#+begin_src latex :packages '(("" "tikz")) :file gantt.pdf
\newcommand\ganttline[4]{% line, tag, start end
\node at (0,#1) [anchor=base east] {#2};
\fill[blue] (#3/20,#1-.2) rectangle (#4/20,#1+.2);}

\begin{tikzpicture}[y=-1cm]

\draw[help lines] (0,4.5) grid (8,0.5);

\ganttline{1}{Kickoff-Meeting}{20}{40}
\ganttline{2}{Thinking}{45}{50}
\ganttline{3}{Implementation}{50}{100}
\ganttline{4}{Testing}{100}{140}
\end{tikzpicture}
#+end_src
---

[1] http://osdir.com/ml/tex.pgf.user/2007-07/msg00008.html

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> For the recent project I had to prepare, I did have to generate a
> GANTT chart.  I tried using TJ2 via org but found the current
> implementation not suitable for my way of working.  Instead of using
> TJ, either 2 or 3, I simply created my own chart using tikz in latex.
> To make my life easier, I created a number of latex commands for this.
>
> I've now developed some code which will take an org table and create a
> GANTT chart.  Some of you may find this useful so I've attached an org
> document with all the codes (emacs lisp + latex) along with an
> example.  I've also attached a PDF so you can see what I get.
>
> The codes are not necessarily easily customisable so they may not do
> what you want.  For the types of project proposals I have to prepare,
> the level of detail I have here is sufficient.
>
> eric
>
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Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[Eric S Fraga]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> While I like tj3, I was looking around for something on tikz/gantt and
> found something from the pgf mailing list I thought I'd pass
> along. Check it out.  [1] 

Thanks for the link.  My own code was based on this snippet of tikz code
actually; I just forgot to give a proper attribution <blush>.

> I'll be tinkering more with this to see if
> some kind of table couldn't be used to bring in the right data to form
> a gantt chart with tikz in org-mode using babel.

which is what I did; did you not see the code in the org file I attached
to the message of mine you refer to:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31824

>  Where I'd like to go
> (for my purposes):
>
> - dates generated based on first/last task (or something else)
> - smart text placement (yours is varied to be next to the task; easier to go
> with the standard of putting them on the left in a colum?)
> - some kind of dependency denoting
> - varied fonts for top level vs. sub-level items
> - pretty it up

All of these would be nice.  The format of the table I defined is
sufficient to enable dependency representation as well, by the way.

I look forward to your improvements!

Thanks,
eric

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Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[John Hendy]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> While I like tj3, I was looking around for something on tikz/gantt and
>> found something from the pgf mailing list I thought I'd pass
>> along. Check it out.  [1]
>
> Thanks for the link.  My own code was based on this snippet of tikz code
> actually; I just forgot to give a proper attribution <blush>.

[snip]

>
> All of these would be nice.  The format of the table I defined is
> sufficient to enable dependency representation as well, by the way.
>
> I look forward to your improvements!

Eric (Fraga) (and whoever else),


I was just revisiting this as I'd like to get a bit better about
longer-ish term planning of projects (I have a horrid habit of
procrastination and not taking bite-sized chunks at a time along the
way). I looked into taskjuggler again, but I can't figure out what the
status is on tj3 and org-mode. I see some dead-end conversations but
nothing that seems for sure implemented and I'm not a big fan of tj2.

In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
and others might be interested in it:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz

It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php

It looks quite reasonable and seems to be as advanced as I'd need for
the moment -- just something to track progress and map action paths
through a project. Anyway, let me know what you think and if you think
org-mode could be adapted to export via that or pull together the
necessary info to generate such a chart based on tags or properties. I
haven't done much with that.


Let me know your thoughts!
John

>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
> --
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> : using Org-mode version 7.02trans (release_7.3.29.gd96c.dirty)
>

Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[Bastien]

Hi John,

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> I looked into taskjuggler again, but I can't figure out what the
> status is on tj3 and org-mode. 

AFAICT, Org's Taskjuggler exporter works fine with both tj2 and tj3.  

You need to configure `org-export-taskjuggler-target-version'.

There is some work to be done to make this library even more useful (see
the the todo list in org-taskjuggler.el) but it's already usable.  I use
it for a project.

> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
> and others might be interested in it:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>
> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
>
> It looks quite reasonable and seems to be as advanced as I'd need for
> the moment -- just something to track progress and map action paths
> through a project. Anyway, let me know what you think and if you think
> org-mode could be adapted to export via that or pull together the
> necessary info to generate such a chart based on tags or properties. I
> haven't done much with that.

Nice -- I'd love to see how Org can produce such TeX gantt charts.

Thanks for the pointers,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[John Hendy]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I looked into taskjuggler again, but I can't figure out what the
>> status is on tj3 and org-mode.
>
> AFAICT, Org's Taskjuggler exporter works fine with both tj2 and tj3.
>
> You need to configure `org-export-taskjuggler-target-version'.
>

What is yours set to? I set mine to "3", but since the change, tj3
--version outputs 0.1 something...

> There is some work to be done to make this library even more useful (see
> the the todo list in org-taskjuggler.el) but it's already usable.  I use
> it for a project.
>

Can you use the file on worg here:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html ?

I'm getting errors:

1) the hours (are they hours?) are exported as 0.3h instead of
something else (they are set to ":Effort: 30.0" in the org file but
apparently get exported to 0.3h). This breaks export, as hours needs
to be greater or equal to 1.0.

2) Once I manually fixed all those in the resultant .tjp file, I get:

---

Error: Unexpected token 'utilization' found. Expecting one of 'alert',
'alertmessages', 'alertsummaries', 'alerttrend', 'chart', 'complete',
'completed', 'criticalness', 'cost', 'daily', 'directreports',
'duration', 'duties', 'efficiency', 'effort', 'effortdone',
'effortleft', 'email', 'end', 'flags', 'followers', 'freetime',
'freework', 'fte', 'headcount', 'hierarchindex', 'hourly', 'id',
'index', 'inputs', 'journal', 'journal_sub', 'journalmessages',
'journalsummaries', 'line', 'managers', 'maxend', 'maxstart',
'minend', 'minstart', 'monthly', 'no', 'name', 'note',
'pathcriticalness', 'precursors', 'priority', 'quarterly', 'rate',
'reports', 'resources', 'responsible', 'revenue', 'scenario', 'seqno',
'start', 'status', 'targets', 'wbs', 'bsi', 'weekly', 'yearly'
  columns no, name, utilization
---

Does this happen to you ever?

Thanks for any input. Perhaps we need a Worg page for both tj2 and tj3
if the file formats are drastically different?

---

*Edit before sending.* I got the export to work by looking at the
example file from the tj3 manual. The report needs to be waaaaaay
different than the current. Here is what worked for the example file
on worg (after manually changing the durations as described above):

----------
navigator navbar {
  hidereport 0
}

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<-
    == Accounting Software Project ==
    ----
    <[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 "Milestones" {
    formats html
    center '<[report id="milestones"]>'
  }

  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 hierarchindex,
          name, start, end, effort, duration, 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 1
  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 wbs { width 50 }, 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 },
            journalmessages { width 350 ${AlertColor} }
    hidetask ~hasalert(0)

    period %{${now} - 1w} +1w
  }
  taskreport completed "" {
    headline "Already completed tasks"

  }
  taskreport ongoing "" {
    headline "Ongoing tasks"

  }
  taskreport future "" {
    headline "Future tasks"

  }
}

# A list of tasks showing the resources assigned to each task.
taskreport development "" {

  headline "Development - Resource Allocation Report"
  columns hierarchindex, 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 tasks with the percentage completed for each task
taskreport milestones "" {
  headline "Project Deliverables"
  columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, note { width 150 }, complete,
          chart { ${TaskTip} }
  taskroot accounting.milestones
  hideresource 1

}
# 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 1
}

# 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
}
----------


Best regards,
John


>> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
>> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
>> and others might be interested in it:
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>>
>> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
>> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
>>
>> It looks quite reasonable and seems to be as advanced as I'd need for
>> the moment -- just something to track progress and map action paths
>> through a project. Anyway, let me know what you think and if you think
>> org-mode could be adapted to export via that or pull together the
>> necessary info to generate such a chart based on tags or properties. I
>> haven't done much with that.
>
> Nice -- I'd love to see how Org can produce such TeX gantt charts.
>
> Thanks for the pointers,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>

Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[Eric S Fraga]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
> and others might be interested in it:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>
> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php

Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.  It looks very good and
definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job!

It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt
chart code to work with this package.  I'll add this to my list of jobs
to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality",
whichever comes soonest ;-)

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.221.g14c6)

Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[John Hendy]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
>> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
>> and others might be interested in it:
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>>
>> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
>> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
>
> Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.  It looks very good and
> definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job!
>
> It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt
> chart code to work with this package.  I'll add this to my list of jobs
> to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality",
> whichever comes soonest ;-)
>

One thing to note is that this is using ConTeXt, not [La]Tex. I had
actually never heard of it before and there were some notable
differences between the file structure, particularly the preamble. Let
me know what you think when you dig into that and if org can manage.
Bummer the package wasn't for straight LaTeX!


John

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> : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.221.g14c6)
>

Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[Eric S Fraga]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>
>> [...]
>>
>>> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
>>> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
>>> and others might be interested in it:
>>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>>>
>>> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
>>> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
>>
>> Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.  It looks very good and
>> definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job!
>>
>> It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt
>> chart code to work with this package.  I'll add this to my list of jobs
>> to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality",
>> whichever comes soonest ;-)
>>
>
> One thing to note is that this is using ConTeXt, not [La]Tex. I had
> actually never heard of it before and there were some notable
> differences between the file structure, particularly the preamble. Let
> me know what you think when you dig into that and if org can manage.
> Bummer the package wasn't for straight LaTeX!
>
>
> John

Ah but the [[http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex/gantt.sty][original]], linked
to from the site above, *is* for LaTeX and has the same functionality, I
believe?  It's the one I would use in any case.
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.222.gd7757)

Re: Was tj3 --> tikz gantt chart

[John Hendy]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a
>>>> bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you
>>>> and others might be interested in it:
>>>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz
>>>>
>>>> It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package:
>>>> http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
>>>
>>> Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.  It looks very good and
>>> definitely much cleaner and prettier than my little hack job!
>>>
>>> It should be fairly straightforward to modify my org table to gantt
>>> chart code to work with this package.  I'll add this to my list of jobs
>>> to do "when I have the time" or "when I next need this functionality",
>>> whichever comes soonest ;-)
>>>
>>
>> One thing to note is that this is using ConTeXt, not [La]Tex. I had
>> actually never heard of it before and there were some notable
>> differences between the file structure, particularly the preamble. Let
>> me know what you think when you dig into that and if org can manage.
>> Bummer the package wasn't for straight LaTeX!
>>
>>
>> John
>
> Ah but the [[http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex/gantt.sty][original]], linked
> to from the site above, *is* for LaTeX and has the same functionality, I
> believe?  It's the one I would use in any case.

Oh wow. I totally missed that that they were not the same. I thought
one was the package and the other a wiki on how to use it. Missed that
the ConTeXt one was a port of the original! Cool deal!

John


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