Printing Gantt charts from Advanced Project?

[jmaxwell]

How is one supposed to print the gantt charts from the advanced project module? there seems to be no method, due to the way the bar-charts are printed in some sort of HTML background color...

anyone have ideas?

-Ed

[jmaxwell]

Helllloooooooooooooo!

anyone out there having this issue? Some sort of response from official sugar people would be encouraging. Can't believe I am the only person who has ever thought of printing these...

thanks
-Ed

[kbrill]

If you are using firefox you can turn on printing background colors (file->Page Setup, and there is a checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box). The same thing can be done with IE in the advanced properties dialog box.

I will look into what it would take to make this screen printable without these measures.

[jmaxwell]

hi Ken -

thanks, yes - I had already figured out that option, but it's not 'good enough' for the sugar users for whom I am trying to solve this problem. Another option we tried that they rejected was exporting the project to MS Project, and printing from there (which would probably work fine, but we'd need too many licenses of MS Project... too expensive). The free online MSProject viewer tools apparently can't read the format (mpx) that Sugar Project exports into. We also have an older version of FastTrack (sp?) that they use for stand-alone Gantt charts now, and supposedly it can import .mpx files but apparently that's not working either (it's an older version of the software).

The only other option I can think of @ the moment is an HTML-to-PDF converter that can handle the CSS/xml stuff that project uses for it's display. I have a couple leads on those type of tools but have yet to try any for real @ this point.

Another (remote) possibility would be to write some custom javascript/CSS to parse/redraw the gantt page into a more printer-friendly format, based on the gantt chart itself, but that seems like a big pain in the ass, and more trouble than it's worth (IMNSHO) for this situation, not to mention that something as extreme as that should not be needed in a case like this.

thanks
-Ed

[kbrill]

I agree, it's just a work around not a fix. Have you submitted a bug report for this yet? I'll check and if you haven't I will.

I will think about it some more and maybe something will come to me. I'll get back to you.

[jmaxwell]

Thanks, Ken. I hadn't submitted a bug yet on this.

I think we may go the JS route, creating a stylesheet optimized for printing, re-enabling the 'print' button (which doesn't work on the grid/gantt page) to just print the gantt chart, and using the JS to replace the code with images instead of the background div/span colors used for the gantt chart currently. definitely a hack, but no other easy solution @ the moment.

there's a handful of other bugs in the APM module, will see if I can file some reports on those.

-Ed

[andydreisch]

there's a handful of other bugs in the APM module, will see if I can file some reports on those.

Hi jmaxwell, please do!!!