Problem with using Gantt Extension

[jsalinas]

Hi
I have been trying to get the Gantt extension to work but I am having a problem.
When I go to extensions -> gantt, I get the Gantt Chart page with the Create button.
-I click the button to create a Gantt chart.
-I get the form with Name, Entity, Start Date, End Date, Progress
-I give a name of 'Active Projects'
-I can select an Entity ( Projects )
-I can not change Start Date or End Date ( both are set to 'Start Date'
-I can not select anything from Progress ( blank dropdown list )
-I give everyone access to see it and click SAVE
From here, I can refresh and see it on the dashboard under Reports.
But when I go into it, I do not see it correctly ( possibly because it doesn't let me set the End Date on the form).
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Also, I can not see any of the Items created under the project in gantt chart
If I edit the gantt chart report and change the entity to tasks, then i can see the gantt chart tasks correctly, but only in admin for a moment. If i refresh the dashboard using a manager account, the gantt chart report disappears completely.
It also disappears from admin account and only way to see it is to go into extension->gantt->Active Projects and change entity back to project.
But it will not display under manager or any other account type as task, and as project, it does not display gantt of all the tasks... only single line for the project.

Any ideas?

[support]

Start Date and End Date are required
so in your case entity Projects should have two fields (type date) that you can use for Start Date and End Date
without this fields Gantt will not work

Progress is not required but if you want to use it you should have to have field with type "progress" then you can use it in gantt

see video how it works
http://rukovoditel.net/gantt-charts.html

[jsalinas]

Perfect, thank you!
I was looking for the report in the wrong place ( under Report menu option on left navigation pane )
Projects does not have an 'end date' field so that is why it is not displaying properly and only showing start date.

Thanks!
We are absolutely loving it! It is very customizable and flexible.

I do have another question though... is there more documentation on how to use the Formula field?
I'd like to see if it is possible to perform custom-define query statement processing through there...
example: in my Parts module, I'd like to have a field that can display results of query such as count(*) from inventory where inventory.partnumber = parts.partnumber and inventory.assigned = 0
to be able to display quantity of parts still on hand in parts module.
Is that possible? Maybe using field descriptors such as [Inventory][Part] = [Parts][Id]

[support]

about formula field it's not possible at the them moment.
but Complex Formula calculations already in plan and I hope it will be in version 1.6

[jsalinas]

ok thanks, please keep me posted!
would be a very powerful and valuable feature!

On another note, do you have any plans to add flowcharging ability?
I have one of our software support engineers asking if there is a way to create and pin a simple flowchart diagram to the projects... maybe like adding a task or something... I know i can generate one outside and just use attachment, but
being able to make them and attach them internally would be very impressive and useful!
I will try to integrate a simple flowchart page like diagramo ( http://www.diagramo.com )
It is simple, and does only what is needed.

[support]

No, at the moment there is no plans to add feature like diagramo.com

[jsalinas]

Sorry to bother you again, but I'm seeing incorrect information in the gantt chart for the tasks.
See attached images please.

Wrong

incorrect start date in gantt

Correct

correct start dates in tasks

In the project, the tasks show correct start and end dates.
But when I look at the gantt chart for the tasks, they show the end date as the start date, so it doesn't display properly.
Can you help please?

Thanks

[jsalinas]

ok nevermind, I had a moment of stupidity...
the problem was the gantt definition was showing end date for both the start and end date.
I don't know how that happened, as when I first created it, I did specify start and end dates...
but ok doesn't matter.
as long as it works I am happy

Thanks!

[jsalinas]

Is there any way to stop the links from printing on the gantt printout at the top?
I've tried everything I can think of... but it still prints out

Projects (http://host.domain/index.php?module=items/items&path=21)
MyProject (http://host.domain/index.php?module=ite ... &path=21-5)
Tasks (http://host.domain/index.php?module=ite ... th=21-5/22)

Thanks