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| by Hamish Taylor | |
| Wednesday, 09 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Gantt
Project is an application that I use for some of my
university work. I had a requirement for a basic Gantt chart to be
included in an assignment. My university uses MS Project and I started
using that, but was not able to get the chart to display properly. It
wanted to display the chart across multiple pages and I was not able to
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I saved it on my desktop, so I right-click it and select "Extract here". This gives me a folder on the desktop. Going into that folder I can see a file named ganttproject.sh. The "sh" file extension indicates to me that the file is a shell script file. Basically it does things in the same way that a .exe file does for Windows. At the moment double clicking on the ganttproject.sh file will do nothing. We have downloaded and extracted it but currently it is just another text file. We have to make it into an executable file, just like those Windows .exe files. This is actually pretty easy to do. Right click on ganttproject.sh and select Properties, then Permissions and tick the box marked "Allow executing file as program". Click Close. Now try double-clicking on it again. It should prompt for what you want to do - Run in terminal, Display, Cancel or Run. Click on Run. I was able to use Gantt Project to set up my assignment's project timeline in a suitable way, export out the Gantt Chart as a picture file and then import that into the Appendix. I was very happy with the result as it displayed across the width of one A4 page, rather than several which was all I could get MS Project to do. However, rather than having to have a folder on my dektop and going into it to double click on ganttproject.sh every time I wanted it to run, I moved the folder into my home directory and created a shortcut on my desktop. More about creating shortcuts in the next article and I promise that it will be shorter! Just as a final aside, Gantt Project is also available in a Windows edition. Try it out! Thanks as always for reading to the end and please feel free to leave a comment or feedback. |
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