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Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - Pipeliner - 11-13-2019
Hello Dear Tactic useres and devs,
I am currently looking for a great project management solution for creating animated movies. When we have tasks that need to be tracked we want to see what the task is.
So my question is if it is possible to add a thumbnail for a task in the gant chart. This is a feature which is not possible in many programs (because it may need a lot of space) but this can be very helpful. It could be possible to hide and unhide it.
Or are any other people here in animation, VFX or video game industry? How do you use TACTIC?
RE: Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - remkonoteboom - 11-14-2019
Do you want a different icon for every task or do you want associate a task with a set of icons.
Both are possible. The standard "preview" column, which you can add with the column manager on any table (task table included), will show a thumbnail of a file associated with that row (in your case a task). This column will either file which explicitly set as the thumbnail or it will show an icon of a file that is checked into the task. You can check-in a file simply by dragging onto the row in the table. As well, you can use the context menu to upload a file to that row. This will associate a separate file for each task, which is what I think you are asking for.
As for associating from a list of files, you can create an stype which will contain a list of the icons and you can create a column in the task view that shows an image related in the way of your choosing. If you connect this stype to the task table in the schema, you can use the preview widget using the "redirect_expr" option. You could use a custom layout for that, however, that may not be fast if you are looking at many many rows or tasks. You could further improve that by creating a custom column in python which preassociates the icons with the sobjects in memory (this is what the preview column actually does).
RE: Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - Pipeliner - 11-14-2019
Thank you for your reply! I want to add an image to a task.
Easy version: Add images for assets, shots, tasks manually
Pro version in the future: Let the software update images of tasks so you can see the progress in the gant chart but in the image as well.
Example A (without Gant chart): https://www.shotgunsoftware.com/dynamic_resources/sg_blog_post_content/41/html_content/11509560527.png
Example B (with Gant chart): http://ftrack.rtd.ftrack.com/en/stable/_images/scheduler_overlays.jpg
MS Project, Open Project, Wrike, and many more don't have the ability to add an image in a row. Google Sheets and Ftrack are the only solutions I know. So if TACTIC is able to do it we might consider it adding to our pipeline.
RE: Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - remkonoteboom - 11-14-2019
TACTIC can check any number of files into any sobject (represented by a row on the Table layout), so in the simplest case, you can just check-in a image and it will show up in the preview row. I quickly took a task view that I had in front of me, added the "preview" column and drag and dropped a couple images on each task. Mind you, this screenshot is from our commercial product, so it looks different, but it is TACTIC but with custom views and theme and using the standard table layout. You could also update these images based on any event using a trigger.
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RE: Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - EricTsuei - 11-18-2019
(11-14-2019, 05:55 PM)remkonoteboom Wrote: TACTIC can check any number of files into any sobject (represented by a row on the Table layout), so in the simplest case, you can just check-in a image and it will show up in the preview row. I quickly took a task view that I had in front of me, added the "preview" column and drag and dropped a couple images on each task. Mind you, this screenshot is from our commercial product, so it looks different, but it is TACTIC but with custom views and theme and using the standard table layout. You could also update these images based on any event using a trigger.
which version of this Gantt view in tactic?
RE: Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - remkonoteboom - 11-21-2019
The Gantt view in the attachment is part of TACTIC Project, our commercial product.
RE: Gant chart Add thumbnail per line - listy - 11-25-2019
(11-21-2019, 08:25 PM)remkonoteboom Wrote: The Gantt view in the attachment is part of TACTIC Project, our commercial product.But TACTIC 4.7 Does contain this gantt chart widget?