From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_suse.de)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2005 - 16:55:07 CET
From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@suse.de> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:55:07 -0700 Message-Id: <200502020855.09272.cs@suse.de> Subject: Re: [taskjuggler] schedule by cash availability?
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 23:24, Nigel.Brown@qml.com.au wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Schlaeger [mailto:cs@suse.de]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2005 3:49 PM
> > To: taskjuggler@suse.com
> > Cc: Nigel.Brown@qml.com.au
> > Subject: Re: [taskjuggler] schedule by cash availability?
> >
> > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 21:26, Nigel.Brown@qml.com.au wrote:
> > > I'm looking at how to structure a project definition so that tasks are
> >
> > only
> >
> > > scheduled when an income account is positive enough -
> > >
> > > eg if a client makes periodic payments that go into the project income
> > > account and tasks are scheduled such that if the project account is
> > >
> > > depleted by tasks then the next task can't begin until the next
> >
> > scheduled
> >
> > > payment takes the account positive enough -
> > >
> > > can taskjuggler do this?
> >
> > Interesting concept ;)
> >
> > The TJ scheduler does not operate chronologically. So the accounting can
> > only
> > be done, when the complete project has been scheduled.
> >
> > But you can use the P&L account reports to find out, when you are running
> > out
> > of cash and then manually adjust the start times accordingly.
>
> Then perhaps I can use taskjuggler as my calculation engine and have a
> automated loop with a control program parsing the calculated budget output,
> making an adjustment to the project file, and then rerunning taskjuggler.
> The loop would repeat until a solution, or lack thereof, is found.
>
> Alternatively can task juggler make a resource person available for a
> limited number of days during a period (eg you can use Harry but only for
> any 3 days this month)? Then a client payment would become the allocation
> of a resource person for a set maximum number of days for the remainder of
> the project period.
Yes, see http://www.taskjuggler.org/manual-cvs/property_limits.html. That
should do the trick.
Chris
-- KDE 3.3: Conquer your Enterprise Desktop! See http://www.kde.org! GPG Key: 1024D/0500838B A5FE C051 2AFC 9A14 768A 5125 5829 5750 0500 838B
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Feb 02 2005 - 16:55:18 CET