Re: Planner-list Calendar

[chris hermansen <clhermansen gmail com>]

Hi Daniel, list;

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:42 AM, <listsandstuff freenet de> wrote:

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 :(

I can see your point about establishing vacation periods.  It would be nice to be able to click on a range as you say.

One possible way to deal with them is as tasks, rather than modifying calendars.  That means addressing them in the context of a project, which means some duplicate effort for a person on two or three projects.

But editing the XML is really pretty easy if you think about copy/paste a number (even a large number) of lines with minimal changes.  The problem gets smaller if you have a number of people who take the same vacation period...

By the way if you have room on your team for someone who would like some of those 30 day vacations let me know!  I will edit your XML for you for free!

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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