Gantt Charting

[onefish]

G'day all,

I haven't been developing for a few years now (and haven't checked in here either) but I'm considering taking up the art again to produce a contract and project management system for the organisation I'm currently working for. I'll have to upgrade my FM Advanced to the latest version. I'd just buy an off the shelf project management package but trouble is none really meet our complex reporting requirements: i.e. dynamic reporting of projects by directorates, locations, funding sources, strategic goals, etc.

I know I can put the basics together in FM in pretty short order but where I'm envisaging getting a bit stuck for time is being able to display professional looking gantt charts of the data. I need to display task dependencies on the chart which I'm sure I can do in FM but not without a huge amount of programming and graphic work.

The gantt charts in Fusion Widgets are good but I don't believe the program is directly compatible with FM without an intermediate program.

My question is, is there a quick and easy way to accomplish professional gantt charts with task dependencies with FM data (automated of course)?

Thanks,

TJ

[Lee Smith]

This topic has come up in the past. Do an [color:blue]Advance Search of the Forum for [color:red]+Gantt, and you will see several post about it.

[onefish]

Thanks Lee, guess I posted in the wrong spot. I did a search before posting. All I have come up with is seed code and some reference to merge fields. I don't believe either will easily show task dependencies or project phases, etc. I have also looked at, Chartmaker pro and xmChart. None really seem to fit the bill. As mentioned I'm pretty sure I could force FM to do it internally but it would be labour intensive. Is there a better way?

Cheers,

TJ

Edited June 29, 2009 by Guest