Let's talk about Gantt charts

[dragan]

I'd much rather be in a swimming pool with these temperatures outside, alas.... work ?

Has anyone ever built Gantt charts with PW?

The idea is to visualize somehow who is responsible for which task, when working in a team (e.g. we as agency, client, and a sub-contractor).

You have some sort of timeline (week-numbers), and can see who is supposed to work on which tasks from date A to date B. There can be time-overlaps, of course.

Is a Gantt chart the established way to go for such things? Or are there other types of charts / graphics that I'm not aware of?

So far I came across these JS libraries:

https://jsganttimproved.github.io/jsgantt-improved/

https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/ganttchart

https://frappe.io/gantt

If somebody has experience with such tools, I'd happy to hear your opinions. If you've done something like this with data coming from PW, how did you do it? (not asking for a full-fledged tutorial or even code-snippets, just some pointers). I guess you'd setup something like Pro Table, with text and datepicker fields, then create XML/JSON/JS vars from that.

 

[arjen]

We use Forecast for these kind of planning. You might get some inspiration from there. It could be possible with PW, but I wouldn't reinvent the wheel when there are other tools. 

[louisstephens]

I have used a lot of project management tools over the years, and I will say, I do like Monday. I built something (utilizing pw) based off the idea just as a test to my abilities. Unfortunately, I had something go wrong with the db so I had to get a fresh copy up and running.

I made a page reference field (projects) for the user template and on the front end you could assign the user to the project (ajax call then selected the appropriate page in the user template). From there, the project page showed all tasks added to it with dates. Ill see if I can resurrect the app and take some screenshots.