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WBS export :: how2 & format, to create a C-BOARD discussion forum out of it

2017-02-22
2017-02-22
  • Florian Strahberger

    Hello,
    during the last months I have crated the C-BOARD, a discussion-board / forum with WBS-assigned discussion threads & a WBS-designed overview (and a lot of known and unique functions & features one can expect in such a groupware).

    At the current state, the Work Breakdown Structure for the C-BOARD has to be mapped step-by-step (one element after the other) what is okay if we start a new project, but if an existing project with many work-packages shall be imported, it would be nice if there was a module to do this.

    For creating such a module, I need to know how a CSV would look like & if the WBS-ID scheme is used mandatory in project-open, so I can rely on the element's position.

    It would be nice, if somebody could
    A) Post a short how2 for exporting a project's WBS into a CSV file
    and
    B) place a short example, how such a CSV would look like (and if one can rely on the structure, or if it might happen that a semicolon is not only be used as a separator, but it might happen that one does appear in the description or so...)

    Just FYI, the C-BOARD & CCS are available on sourceforge as well:
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-c-s/
    (now, the C-BOARD is an integrated part of the CYBR CSCW-SUITE :: CCS as well)

    Thanks in advance,
    -Florian

     
  • Frank Bergmann

    Frank Bergmann - 2017-03-15

    Hi Florian,

    Sorry, for some reason I didn't receive a notification about your posting, and I just saw it yesterday. Did you already start with the development? How should ]po[ and C-Board integrated on the GUI side?

    Please use ]po[ V5.0 as a base, there is a beta4 VMware available in the V5.0 download folder.

    When going to Project -> Import from CSV, there is an example of a CSV generated by some kind of export. The im_projects table has a "parent_id" column which stores the parent. However, in CSV exports, "Parent Nrs" contains a space separated list of project_nr of the parents to uniquely identify parents.

    However, instead of using CSV I'd use a straight SQL query to the PostgreSQL database to extract these data...

    Cheers,
    Frank

     

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