= Scheduling Tools

== Description

{{{#!box warn 
**Notice:** This plugin is in alpha stage.
}}} 

A simple scheduling algorithm for tickets. 

If each ticket is assigned an effort, they can be scheduled based on their owner and priority and milestone. 

Then a Gantt chart can be generated.
It displays all scheduled tickets as usual together with their milestones. The latter ones are display in black if ok or in red, if a ticket in the milestone reaches past the milestone's due date.

Scheduling is influenced by:
 * Team availability: Who is available how many hours a days? - Availabilities can be maintained under Admin.
 * Blocking tickets (future)

A personal time table displays the next tickets a developer should work at:

[[Image(gantt.gif)]]

Team avalabilities can be maintained:

[[Image(timetable.gif)]]

Works with the EstimationToolsPlugin:

[[Image(avail.gif)]]

== Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for SchedulingToolsPlugin are 
[report:9?COMPONENT=SchedulingToolsPlugin here].

If you have any issues, create a 
[http://trac-hacks.org/newticket?component=SchedulingToolsPlugin&owner=viola new ticket].

[[TicketQuery(component=SchedulingToolsPlugin&group=type,format=progress)]]

== Download

Use the attached egg or download the zipped source from [download:schedulingtoolsplugin here].

== Source ==

You can check out SchedulingToolsPlugin from [http://trac-hacks.org/svn/schedulingtoolsplugin here] using Subversion, or [source:schedulingtoolsplugin browse the source] with Trac.

== Installation

Crude installation steps are: 
 * Create the following custom fields:
  * estimatedhours (int)
  * startdate (date)
  * duedate (date)
 * Deploy the egg
 * Manually enable the Macros as admin

== Example

Example code to enter in your Trac page to get a Gantt chart or time table respectively:

{{{[[GanttChart]]}}}

{{{[[TimeTable]]}}}

== Open Items

 * Overall:
  * Configurability: field names, sort orders, etc
  * Ticket dependencies
 * Gantt Chart:
  * Filter Controls
  * Group by keywords
  * Ticket entry/change
 * Timetable:
  * Ticket entry/change
 * Resource Availability:
  * Automatic description in list view

== Recent Changes

[[ChangeLog(schedulingtoolsplugin, 3)]]

== Author/Contributors

'''Author:''' [wiki:viola] [[BR]]
'''Maintainer:''' [[Maintainer]] [[BR]]
'''Contributors:'''