Dizkus

I was wondering if there was such a beast as a project planner for PostNuke? I was hoping to add one to a site where a group of teacher could work on a project and establish timelines/materials etc.

Any suggestions?

Marc

Check out Cas Nuy's http://www.nuy.info/726/ integration of phProjekt. It's a rather impressive piece of software. I've just started playing with it on a test site.

But, then as an instructor, you've no doubt seen Cas' integration of ATutor and Moodle, right? I'm using pnATutor with a course right now. I also use WebCT for another school, which is far more powerful and far more pricey! I haven't played around with Moodle yet.

I am not sure if my request was clear enough ... I am actually looking for project planner where you can see graphically the time-lines, materials etc. such as the "Planner" soft with GNU (linux). I am using Moodle already but need to prepare plans for the implementation of an FSL board programme where lesson plans are set out on a monthly schedule. I am hoping to have help from various teachers and it would be great to do this on-line rather than exchanging files to update the project plan. You can find a screenshot of the GNU Planner at: http://www.imendio.com/projects/planner/

Thanks for any help.

Marc

The charts you are referring to are the Gantt charts. Many project planning systems include the ability to generate those charts in order to track the time line of the project.

Personally speaking I do not know of a native PostNuke module that performs project tracking and produces the Gantt charts.

There was a reference to the tie in one of the PostNuke developers made which allows the same user base to access both PostNuke and a system called phProjekt. You can find out more about phProjekt itself by visiting the site of http://sourceforge.net/projects/phprojekt/

I realize this may be a bit more than what you are seeking, but again, I do not know of any project module native to PostNuke which generates the Gnatt charts. The phProjekt system is a full blown project management system that also has elements of groupware incorporated into it. This is not saying anything bad about the package, it is a current trend in the project management arena to broaden the packages to include elements of groupware to permit group collaboration.

Personally I am looking into a package called eGroupWare to handle my project management needs. I think it had its origins as groupware and included at some point project management. Things seem to flow more readily within this package. By that I mean it has something called global categories, which is the type of thing I was looking for. You set a category up at the global level and then it is available for all modules such as the project management area, the forums, the file manager area, etc. Not knocking phProjet, but it doesn’t have this concept built into it so categories are set at the individual module level as far as I could tell when I was working with it.

I do see the benefits of having a project management module native to PostNuke, one that would generate the Gantt charts, and I may seek to file a formal project request to work on this once I get another module that I have already sought approval on.

Hope this helps explain things and if you have questions about what I have said just ask me and I'll try to clarify.

I thought it was, I think the unclear part was your reading of his response. Cas Nuy has created several modules that allow many other projects and PostNuke to share a unified login. DotProject, phPRoject are two that he has doen, and both of those systems will provide you with what you need. The reference to Atutor and Moodle was just letting you know that Cas has done similar for those as he's done with DotProject & phProjekt.

Thanks for the notes everyone. I will check out those sites. CliffT and mhalbrook ... thanks for the messages and the help ... I am using Cas' moodle add-on and it works very well! You help is appreciated very much.

Cheers

Marc Paré

Hey Marc,
I used both phprojekt and dotproject so far and I really think dotproject is a much better for project management. It is a much cleaner interface and has an extra layer of functionality with being able to assign projects by customer including internal and external customers.

Phprojekt I think has a few more add ins than dot project that include CMS news publication and some other functionality add on's. I don't know how well they work.

Dotproject's layout is much simpler to understands and projects and tasks are easier to follow along with. Overall usability is just much better with Dotproject.

Good luck

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Hi rixride:

Thanks for the note. I am still looking over the different packages, but so far the dotproject seems to fit in more with my needs. I hope to try to integrate it into a PostNuke test site by the end of this weekend and to test this upcoming week. It would be nice to have eventually a native project manager for PN just as irasmith suggested ... this would definitely get my vote.

Cheers

Marc