Forum OpenACS Development: Project Manager Todo List

- Implement Gantt Charts for Project and Task Views. Still investigating how I will do this, but it's looking like it will probably just be straight HTML (for now)

- We will start using 'milestones' at IBR which will probably entail UI changes in subprojects or in task dependencies. I will write more about our requirements tomorrow and see if we can reach a consensus on the best way to implement this in project manager.

- Malte talked about ongoing UI improvements which I definintely would like to participate in.

I'm still working off of the oacs-5-1 branch. When would be a good time to merge the two branches? We are still running 5.1 here and since we have a ton of custom packages I'm not sure how long it will take us to get upgraded.

I tried checking out all of the new changes to project manager but I am having some problems getting it working (I'm sure I'm doing something wrong). Are you working against OACS HEAD or the OACS 5.2 branch?

When I take the HEAD project-manager and try to run it against the 5.2 branch I get this errror:

Error in include template "/home/ibr-dev/oacs-5-2/packages/project-manager/templates/project-ae": Invalid switch: "-exclude_static"

Against OACS HEAD I get this error:

Error in include template "/home/ibr-dev/oacs-HEAD/packages/project-manager/lib/projects": could not read "/home/ibr-dev/oacs-HEAD/packages/acs-templating/resources/lists/select-menu.adp": no such file or directory

Am I working off the wrong code base?

I ran into two bugs that I can't quite figure out. During the process of adding a task the proc pm::project::compute_status_mins is called. There are 3 instances of the block that starts out with

while { $mins_to_complete > [expr $hours_day * 60]} {

....

Each of these blocks causes an infinite loop. I can't really tell what that code is doing or how it would reach a condition that would exit the loop. I fixed it on my local copy by just removing it completely.

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There seems to be another bug where tasks are not being displayed withing the projects. To fix this on my local copy I reverted lib/tasks-postgresql.xql from version 1.7 to 1.1.

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Database operation "0or1row" failed (exception NSDB, "Query was not a statement returning rows.")

ERROR: null value in column "name" violates not-null constraint
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "content_item__new" line 103 at SQL statement
PL/pgSQL function "pm_task__new_task_item" line 35 at assignment

OK, so it looks like content_item__new is not getting it's name passed to it.

In the database script we have:

   -- create the task_number
        if p_task_id is null then
           select
        else
           v_id := p_task_id;
        end if;

        v_item_id := content_item__new (
                v_id::varchar,          -- name

I changed the v_id to p_task_id and everything seems to work fine.

Obviously my change will break something else since timoh created this v_id variable in upgrade-3.0d7-3.0d8.sql

Any ideas on a fix?

Been out of action for a while. Great to see everything still hot!

One thing while I remember. In the code I originally sent you when we were merging the project and task level permissions support with your changes I had added a little padlock icon and link to the project and task view pages that linked to the acs_permissions setting page. This made it easy and convenient to set permissions on any object from the object view page.

I noticed when I last checked out a copy (a while ago now) that it was not there any more - probably got lost in the merge. I was going to fix it myself but have not yet done so and now I think I don't have access to the new cvs.

Also, thanks for the email re: handling incoming email. I will reply asap.

R.