Re: Palm and MrProject

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:21:47PM +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> l??r 2002-11-09 klockan 12.51 skrev P.A.M. van Dam:
> 
> Hi!

Mikael,

> 
> > What would be great to have is the functionality to upload the planned work
> > schedules for the oncoming workweek to the PDAs (PALM for example) so the 
> > employees have their to-do list. On this list they keep track which
> > tasks they spent their time on. At the end of the week the PDAs upload
> > their data to MrProject so the Actual Efforts can be calculated and a
> > new planning can be generated.
> 
> Yes, I agree, this would be a great thing to have. It wouldn't really
> have to be very advanced to be useful. If anyone would be interested in
> hacking on this I can try to help get the needed hooks in MrProject to
> add this feature.

I'd surely be interested in it. I'm currently working with the 0.6 version of MrProject. The "actual effort" stuff is not yet there. 

> 
> > Also uploading status reports to the PDA would be great to have.
> > 
> > Right now, I'm working with Taskjuggler. I'll see what MrProject's status 
> > is now.
> 
> It would be interested if the PDA part could be shared here and a common
> protocol to send the data. Then we can use gnome-pilot to access the PDA
> from MrProject and Taskjuggler can use pilot-link directly (it's a
> console based tool, right?)

That would be the right way to do it. We'll have to find someone with some
experience on PalmOS to develop a view and edit app for the data and that will
beam the altered data back. Pilot link can do both if an conduit is engineered for it.

> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal

Best regards,

	Pascal

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