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= Chart Of Upcoming Milestones Macro

== Description

When Trac is used to manage many projects, it is useful to get a dashboard overview of all milestone dates in the Trac instances. This macro automatically generates such a chart.

Key features:
 * You may put in a news box. 
 * Overdue dates can be displayed colored. 
 * The milestone chart is sorted by date. 
 * You can set a filter which milestones are displayed by setting an SQL-like pattern.

== Bugs/Feature Requests

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

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

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

== Download

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

== Installation

Just copy the .py file in the plugin directory of Trac. 

== Source

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

== Example

[[Include(source:upcomingmilestoneschartmacro/README.txt)]]

It is then displayed as:

[[Image(exampleMilestoneChart.PNG)]] 

based on these milestones:

[[Image(exampleMilestoneOverview.PNG)]]

== Recent Changes

[[ChangeLog(upcomingmilestoneschartmacro, 3)]]

== Author/Contributors

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