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Ideas / Another request for a Gantt Chart

« on: March 19, 2009, 03:46:36 am »

I'm an art director at a video game company trying out OpenGoo. I've used quite a few project management solutions, free and expensive. Currently, I'm using Gantt Project (http://ganttproject.biz/) as well as excel. Gantt Project is open source, easy, and powerful for what I need. Mostly, I need to see the duration of dependent/linked tasks. Also, if someone finishes early or runs late, I need to be able to see the chain reaction and quickly adjust for it.

In OpenGoo, when I create a task, it only shows me the date it's due on the calendar and I need to see the total duration in days - and be able to just grab it and move it to different days if need be. Our tasks are dependent on each other and only seeing the due dates doesn't tell me, visually, where an artist or programmer should be on that task.

So, I guess I'm requesting:
1. a gantt chart that's editable
or
2. a calendar that has each single task viewed as a bar across multiple days for the duration of that task (like google if you don't set hours)

With that said, you guys have created really great, fantastic software! I'm very impressed! I installed it on my personal website and am trying it out right now.

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Getting Started / Re: Wow is this cool!

« on: March 19, 2009, 03:15:28 am »

I'll have to agree... very cool. I'm impressed. I haven't been this excited since I started using Joomla for my website. I'm an art director at a video game company and have been searching high and low for a good, simple project management solution. This is just about it. wow. I use gantt project at my work because it's so simple to use and the other producers use excel docs. We actually paid hundreds of dollars for other software but I keep coming back to it because it's very, very fast and easy. ... so, I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, but if you guys add edit-able gantt charts... I will worship you.  Thanks for the already great software!