[Plone-Users] GanttProject

[Yves M. <ym...@gr...>]

Hi All,

I was told to make a Gantt Chart for a project.  My very first reflex is 
to find a way other than a proprietary one (e.g. MS-Project, which I 
don't have on my machine anyhow) or a clumsy one (e.g. Excel, OO calc). 
  I ended up on the wikipedia page of Gantt charts 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart) and there was a mention at 
the bottom of a FOSS package called GanttProject 
(http://ganttproject.biz/).  Turns out it's a GPL'ed Java program, so I 
set it up on my box and start playing with it.  Then I notice it can 
export a "project" as an XML file (I haven't looked whether they have 
their own schemas yet) to a web site that supports webdav.  So I turn on 
webdav support on my Plone site and I indeed get my XML file in my Plone 
site.

Of course, there isn't much to do with that in terms of presenting on 
the web.  I guess I'd need an XSLT transformation to apply on the file 
to get something as usable as the HTML outputs GanttProject makes (but 
only to the file system).  The advantage I see is that a desktop 
application, a nice one I must say, can be used to fiddle with the 
chart.  One big disadvantage is that all resources (names of person) 
used in GanttProject are disconnected with respect to a list of Plone 
members, for example.

I figures I'd bounce that experience to the list since I know a lot of 
folks are looking fot the holy grail in terms of project management :-)

Yves Moisan