Any previous diagramming tool/ mermaid plugin or thing which does CPA/ PERT diagrams?
See below for an example:
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I only recall Gantt charts. But search for tiddlywiki project management as a possibility. I also think you could find graphing or chart utilities that may go a long way to presenting this. I assume that you need it to find the critical path as well?. I think this would be trivial in tiddlywiki but has it being done yet as you ask?
Hi Tones,
I was just thinking purely from a diagram point of view, but it’s a good thought! I know there are some clever solutions for other types of graphs and diagrams but couldn’t recall CPA… Was hoping I might have just missed/forgotten the brilliant resource that did.
A form of this could be written with the railroad plugin used for some of the tiddlywiki.com documentation.
The time lines plugin does Gantt chart like. I’ll dig out the link when I’m back on a pc.
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Mermaid plugin can do Gantt charts, with some limits (no clickable wikitext in graphs).
mermaid-tw5 plugin
Fred
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Great!
It seems that it can do timelines as well! @Ste_W You should have a look at this, seems to be close to what you want.
The syntax for is understandable but it would be great to
- be able to generate charts based on tiddler-fields.
- scale the chart in a frame.
Are there any implementations of that out there?
The flaw of mermaid is that the diagrams cannot create wikilinks :-(. Square brackets ruin the graph immediately. I would like to click objects on the charts to retrieve information.
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If you are into that kind of thing, you could create a gantt chart with CSS: How to Create a Simple Gantt Chart Using CSS Grid
@Charlie_Veniot link How to Create a Simple Gantt Chart Using CSS Grid is very promising.
One thing it makes obvious is a Gantt chart is only aligned multiple timeline rows.
In this CSS example the data ie months and tasks across the “multiple timelines” is coded in CSS.
- In tiddlywiki we can replace row columns with list widgets and dates from tiddlers
- Ironic really CSS supposed to ONLY format the Data in this case it is the formatting AND the data.
- All you need to do is to edit the CSS version to pull data from tiddlers.
But there are so many features including zoom in and out with this that I would use that first.
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Just stumbled across a graphviz plugin (GitHub - chanilino/tw5viz: Graphviz plugin for tw5 (Tiddlywiki)) which kinda lets me create something closeish.
<$viz text=' digraph g {
node [fontname="Arial"];
node [shape=record];
rankdir="LR"
1 [label="1\n|{0|0}"];
2 [label="2\n|{1|1}"];
9 [label="9\n|{1.2|7.8}"]
3 [label="3\n|{3|3}"]
1 -> 2 [label="1 Week\n High Level Analysis"];
2 -> 9 [label="1 Day\n Select Hardware"];
2 -> 3 [label="2 Weeks\n Core Module Analysis"];
}' class="myexample"/>```@Ste_W note that recent discussions on Nearby Neighbours are closely related to this thread.
- Related to this is some work I am doing to allow a network of tiddlers to be entered
- Networks, as opposed to hierarchies or lists which we are more familiar with in tiddlywiki actually look a lot like your OT Pert diagram.
- I am doing this to support real world data and relationships, to be capture/entered as easily in instinctively as “new here” does for hierarchies.
- Shortest paths, critical paths and weighing connections has arisen in the Nearby Neighbours discussions.
- To really test Nearby Neighbours, we need test date of the network style, in part why I started the above.
For your reference Gantt charts include much of the same information as does a Critical Path analysis. There are some tiddlywiki implementations, on which you could build.
Yeah. In the real world you would just plan using Microsoft Project or similar which creates a Gannt style layout then press a button to be shown the critical path, but I still need to deliver Critical Path as part of several course syllabi (syalabuses?)