Re: [Planner Dev] Dev suggestions

[Lincoln Phipps <lincoln phipps openmutual net>]

Kurt Maute wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:50 +0100, Polar Finnish wrote:
>
> > How do I plan an aircraft, 100 % available in may, but with the constraint 
> > that I only have a certain amount of money for fuel.
> > - The only way I found out was a post-it note and a brain (not always 
> > available though).
>
>
> I think the answer here would be to create a material resource 'Fuel',
> with an associated cost per unit, and have a task 'Prepare Aircraft'
> with 'Fuel' assigned to it, and set the number of units for Fuel to
> however much is required to make the flight.  In theory the cost for the
> fuel should then be calculated as part of the task cost, and then you
> can include it in your budget.
>
> Problem is it doesn't work.  It seems that Planner needs to be enhanced
> so that any material resource calculates cost as units*cost/unit rather
> than using the same calc that it uses for work resources.

Yes - so far all I'd got to on this is raising a bugzilla,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147249

and doing a diagram on what I thought would be a better arrangement,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=29398&action=view

If we had a material thing then we could add more complex
calculations e.g. the fuel consumptions.  In my case I'm after
a BOM (Bill of Materials) for budget purposes.

Humans and materials really must be separated in Planner as they
have completely different roles that they perform. See
also my diagram,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=29415&action=view
for the ideas on human roles.


> > 2) Add the possibility to add finacial constraints on resources/tasks and 
> > projects.
>
>
> Using the above method of calculating a budget for the project I think
> would work well for this purpose.