Project Plan Plugin

Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.

Description

ProjectPlan introduces time, dependency Fields and enables Project Management Features, especially for graphical visualisation, like Reports and Networks. Furthermore its a Development Base for several graphical Representations.

• Current Testing Version is 0.60a (alpha)
  • Features
    • GraphViz based MPM Network
    • GraphViz based Hierarchical MPM Network
    • Critical Path Analysis (Simple Workloadbases)
    • Sorted Reports for Delayed Tickets and Slacktimes
    • Other small things
  • Known Problems
    • no Images for this Package (supported, but no image files)
    • possible unused Imports in several Modules
    • Other small things in code and documentation

Software Requirements

• Python 2.5 or 2.6 with Python Standard Library
• a recent GraphViz Package
• Trac 0.11 (.1-5)
• XML Template Engine Genshi 0.51 or compatible (is part of Trac 0.11)

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for ProjectPlanPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a ​new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from [download:projectplanplugin here].

Source

You can check out ProjectPlanPlugin from ​here using Subversion, or browse the source​ with Trac.

Basic Setup

1. Install the Plugin, either Global or Local (Local is recommended at this point)
2. Setup Ticket-Custom Fields in your Projects trac.ini
   • For the case, you already have Dependency, Assign/Close Date Ticket-Custom Fields
     • Add the Fieldnames (as long as the format is compatible) with

       [pp_options]
       custom_dependency_field = <your dependency fieldname>
       custom_due_assign_field = <your assign Date fieldname>
       custom_due_close_field = <your close Date fieldname>
       

     • This lets ProjectPlanPlugin use these configured fields
   • If you dont have corresponding Dependency and Date Fields, they need to be added as Ticket-Custom Fields

     [ticket-custom]
     dependencies = text
     dependencies.label = Dependencies
     due_assign = text
     due_assign.label = Due to assign
     due_assign.value = DD/MM/YYYY
     due_close = text
     due_close.label = Due to close
     due_close.value = DD/MM/YYYY
     

3. Basic GraphViz Configuration (needed for Networks):
   • login with administrative Rights, navigate to Admin (WebAdmin)
     • Select the Panel ProjectPlan -> General Settings (on the left)
     • Verify the Settings for cachepath and dot_executable
   • or set the following options in the projects trac.ini

     [pp_options]
     cachepath = <full path to the cache directory>
     dot_executable = <path to graphviz binaries>\dot.exe
     

     • restart your webserver for configuration reload
   • Verify access and execution rights for the webserver User
   • cachepath should be a separate directory for each project/project trac, this reduces possible cache collisions

4. Color Setup:
   • login with administrative Rights, navigate to Admin (WebAdmin)
     • Select the Panel ProjectPlan -> Color Settings (on the left)
     • Set HTML Color codes and apply Settings

5. Image Setup (currently theres nothing to select - skipped)

Example

Add Ticket dependencies and close/assign Times.

• Network Graphics
  • Use the ProjectPlan Macro for (mpm like) Network graphics with several options enabling Project runtime estimation and (workload based) critical path analyses.
• Special Reports
  • Use special Reports which show Delays and Slacktimes
• ...

Macro Samples:

1. Both Network (hierarchical and non-hierarchical) use critical path analysis. This wont work without ticket times for all tickets (either start,end, or both).
2. The critical path analysis wont work with cyclic dependencies
3. Dependencies are saved in Ticket-Custom fields. A dependency line consists of Ticket Identifiers "#<Ticket ID>".
   • Sample Dependencies: #6 and #5,#3 #4

    == hierarchical Network ==
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=1,renderer=gvhierarchical)]]
    
    == hierarchical Network with start and end times==
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=1,renderer=gvhierarchical,betickets)]]
    
    == filtered (milestone=milestone1) ==
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=filtered,renderer=gvhierarchical,filter_milestone=milestone1)]]
    
    == non-hierarchical (full network) ==
    [[ProjectPlan(renderer=gvrender,macroid=2,withbuffer)]]
    
    == Network Legends ==
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=legend,renderer=gvrender,statuslegend,prioritylegend,notickets)]]
    
    == Special Reports ==
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=report_buffer,renderer=report_buffer,limitlines=4)]]
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=report_closing_delay,renderer=report_closing_delay,limitlines=10)]]
    [[ProjectPlan(macroid=report_assign_delay,renderer=report_assign_delay,limitlines=10)]]

Recent Changes

16448 by rjollos on 2017-04-04 07:09:32

Remove intermediate directory

16447 by rjollos on 2017-04-04 07:09:00

Fix indentation

13331 by anbo on 2013-07-07 18:32:10

v2.1.5, patch release

fixes a bug, where the depending tickets are not saved during ticket creation

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Author/Contributors

Author: makadev
Contributors: