Planner-list Feedback from a novice user
George <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:12:41 +0100
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To whoever it may concerned...
I am using Planner for a business start scheme involving over 70
different 'activities' and various people involved as 'recursos' (my
version of Planner has come to me in Spanish as I could not find the
English language version, however, as I live in Spain , this is OK).
Using planner has been great and for the first time I see the project
laid out before me with timings and critical path etc. much as I used
to do when I was working in industry. It is not only very useful but
_essential_ to do this exercise for any medium to large project and I
can highly recommend using this programme. It was not too difficult to
learn and in a couple of days I managed to create and fine tune my
timing plan. Best of all. I can update the plan easily by simply
changing the 'work duration' as it turns out in practice and, if all the
interrelations between events have been well thought out, the timing
plan readjusts itself automatically. Fantastic!
As a result of using Planner, I have two practical comments on its
function. Firstly; the printing options are very limited (or not well
set up) on my computer. I could only print the first (top) view and
could not access the lower entries on planner which, logically would
have been printed out on the next sheet. For some reason I could not
print any other views except the first page.
I solved this problem by taking a screen shot of each view (Gantt views
or otherwise), printing them out and stitching them together to form one
single extended plan. This is fine, however the 'reduce' and 'amplify'
buttons are too crude in their settings and do not allow me to fine tune
the size of the screen . I felt that the facility should be included to
zoom in and out of the view to exactly the size you want.
Apart from this, I found it to be an invaluable programme and thank you
for making it available to the Ubuntu community,
George Musgrove
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To whoever it may concerned...<br>
<br>
I am using Planner for a business start scheme involving over 70
different 'activities' and various people involved as 'recursos' (my
version of Planner has come to me in Spanish as I could not find the
English language version, however, as I live in Spain , this is OK).<br>
<br>
Using planner has been great and for the first time I see the
project laid out before me with timings and critical path etc. much
as I used to do when I was working in industry. It is not only very
useful but <u>essential</u> to do this exercise for any medium to
large project and I can highly recommend using this programme. It
was not too difficult to learn and in a couple of days I managed to
create and fine tune my timing plan. Best of all. I can update the
plan easily by simply changing the 'work duration' as it turns out
in practice and, if all the interrelations between events have been
well thought out, the timing plan readjusts itself automatically.
Fantastic!<br>
<br>
As a result of using Planner, I have two practical comments on its
function. Firstly; the printing options are very limited (or not
well set up) on my computer. I could only print the first (top) view
and could not access the lower entries on planner which, logically
would have been printed out on the next sheet. For some reason I
could not print any other views except the first page.<br>
<br>
I solved this problem by taking a screen shot of each view (Gantt
views or otherwise), printing them out and stitching them together
to form one single extended plan. This is fine, however the 'reduce'
and 'amplify' buttons are too crude in their settings and do not
allow me to fine tune the size of the screen . I felt that the
facility should be included to zoom in and out of the view to
exactly the size you want.<br>
<br>
Apart from this, I found it to be an invaluable programme and thank
you for making it available to the Ubuntu community,<br>
<br>
George Musgrove<br>
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