Re: Planner-list Calendar

[listsandstuff freenet de]

Hi Chris,

thank you for your answer. Honestly speaking i was looking for something 
like "click on the first day, then hold ctrl whil clickin on the last 
day and the complete range of days will be marked". Dealing with single 
holidays like christmas or eastern - the same for everyone - is easy. 
But what's about individual vacations? In a team of 20 persons you have 
to mark 20x30 days. That's 600 lines of xml-code or 1800 clicks with the 
calendar widget. Or how do you deal with temporarily available 
resources? An intern who joins the team for three month causes 90 lines  
of xml-code or 270 clicks :(

Greetings
Daniel



Am 23.10.2014 18:36, schrieb chris hermansen:
> Daniel and list;
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:56 AM,<listsandstuff freenet de>  wrote:
>
>    
> > Hi,
> >
> > ist there an easier way to edit calendars, i.e. to mark a sequence of days
> > as non-working-days. It's annoying to insert individual holidays for a
> > number of resources when you have to do 3 clicks for every single day.
> >
> >
> >
> >      
> Depending how you might define "easy"... but by my definition, for sure!
>
> You can edit the .planner file, which is just XML, with your favourite text
> editor and make the changes by hand in a much more straightforward version.
>
> Here is my suggestion.
>
> First make a test .planner file with a couple of activities linked to a
> custom calendar.  In that custom calendar, define a couple of holidays
> (maybe Christmas and New Year's day, doesn't really matter).
>
> Save the file, quit from planner, then use your text editor to look at the
> file.  Near the front of the file, you will see XML types<day-types>  and
> also your custom calendar definition<calendar id="2" name="...">
>
> Within that custom calendar definition you will see the holidays you
> defined, looking something like<day date="20150101" type="day-type"
> id="1"/>
>
> All you have to do at that point is copy/paste a bunch of new<day ... />
> definitions with your chosen holiday dates and save the file.  Check it by
> opening your plan.
>
> Also, I have created a .planner file that is nothing but calendar and
> resources; I use that to create new projects.  So you should only need to
> do that work once for all of your projects within a given organizational
> structure.
>
> I hope this is clear; ask for more details if not.
>
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>