Comments on: Milestone Planner – second release

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:46:27 +0000

Much better Jim – I’m actually starting to like it
Looking forward to v0.3

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:44:40 +0000

Re: swimlanes not being retained, I should have made it clearer in the main post – All of the features etc are currently only working in the browser – nothing that changes is stored anywhere – so as soon as you close the browser or navigate away everything will be lost – I’ll be working on the storage aspects and making everything ‘persistent’ once we’ve hammered the look and feel and functionality at the front end.

Thanks for the comments so far – all v. useful stuff

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:09:17 +0000

A couple of things….

Ideas about working / non-working days are good… remember that some places have weekends that are different to Saturday / Sunday, so ideally this functionality should be customisable (is that a word?!) May be possible to upload data re. public holidays in different countries…. useful for international collaboration?

When dragging and dropping swimlanes I managed to create large gaps between them – difficult to describe, but I think I dropped the top swimlane onto the third one and the gap appeared. I’ll email you a screenshot.

Mousewheel control is not working BTW (using standard Dell mouse, PC running Windows XP).

By: Dad

Dad — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:12:29 +0000

I had the same difficulty as Clive when I added a swim lane, it was not retained – but that might just be because it is a test version and needs tweeking. Agree that some form of restiriction to who can make changes is a good suggestion.
Have a few other thoughts which I will mull over on the flight over tomorrow and float over a glass of wine when we arrive.

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:49:29 +0000

But just noticed that all the changes I’ve made weren’t retained after I quit the screen to make the comments above and then came back. Shame they were quite funny I thought…

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:47:33 +0000

JIm,

Your dad’s suggestions seem to make sense to me. Comments on drop 2. Like the expanding box when you click on the swim lane title. However, it looks a bit old fasioned- big box, big boring font etc- can’t really explain what I mean. Also it ticked me off a few times that clicking anywhere on the title box other other than on the title didn’t bring up the box. The text in the title box can spill out of the box. I’ve added some new swimlanes and text in them which may emphasise the importance of security levels and limiting the ability of some users to make changes. Its looking good by the way. keep it up…

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:52:55 +0000

My Dad sent this…

Have been thinking about the highlighting non working days bit. Week-ends are not perhaps so relevant when a lot of businesses/contractors work flexi time. Non working days could be different for different people/departments, so I would have thought some form of highlighting would be essential. It would need to be moveable. How do you propose people enter data? Will it be some form of text or symbols based on main events/milestones? If symbol based then you could have a non working day symbol. You could also have different colours for different symbols depending on how important/cruicial the event/milestone is to the project. Obviously everyone would have to use the same notation but perhaps they could be held in a drop down box ready for copying into the timelines. Perhaps the symbols could be user defined depending on the type of project and set by the team at the start.