The method of claim 1, and further comprising receiving data defining a user specified text size and color palette.ġ2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selected display preferences are expressed in task fields, the task fields including Display task percent complete, Display task dependencies, Display timeline interval highlight, Display Today's date highlight, Filter timeline date range, and Filter task swim lanes to display fields.ġ1. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selected display preferences are expressed in task fields, the task fields including visibility, visibility color, visibility type and visibility short name fields.ġ0. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the swimlane timeline diagram includes processing the source tasks according to a work breakdown structure field for the source tasks.ĩ. The method of claim 1, comprising: overriding the outline level based on a single page user preference and determining an outline level based the task data such that the swimlane timeline diagram fits on a single page.Ĩ. The method of claim 1, further comprising placing copies of the task data into an application cache buffer.ħ.
#Omnigraffle swimlanes software
The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of source files include one or more of a project file, a spreadsheet file, or a collaboration software file that includes a task.Ħ. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the one or more swimlane child elements includes creating a progress visual element corresponding to each of the one or more swimlane child elements in a depth oriented toggleable layer of the swimlane timeline diagram.ĥ. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the one or more swimlane child elements includes creating a control that toggles between a summary and a drill-down view of the respective one or more descendent source tasks.Ĥ. The method of claim 1, wherein the diagramming software format is a vector based format including shape data that is preserved in the software format.ģ. ” and wherein processing the task outline numbers includes: evaluating task data for outline number “n1” in the source file to determine the earliest start date and latest finish date over all tasks, the outline number “n1” corresponding to the outline level designating the earliest start date and the latest finish data as the start and finish date for a Portfolio View timeline determining the swim lane title element text for each horizontally oriented swim lane based on the starting outline number task and placing each source file's associated “n1.n2” interval and milestone tasks within their respective horizontally oriented swim lane.Ģ. A method for transforming task data to an output swimlane timeline diagram, the method comprising: receiving, using one or more processors, task data from a plurality of source files generated by a plurality of first application applications, the task data including data for source tasks processing, using one or more processors, the task data in accordance with user selected filters and display preferences and generating, using one or more processors, a swimlane timeline diagram for the source tasks in accordance with the processed task data, and further in accordance with a diagramming software format, wherein generating the swimlane timeline diagram includes: processing the source tasks according to task outline numbers corresponding to respective source tasks determining an outline level from a user preference titling the swimlane timeline diagram with a title diagram element oriented at the top of the swimlane timeline diagram based on the outline level creating a horizontally oriented timeline from a first plurality of diagram elements spanning the swimlane timeline diagram and oriented directly under the title diagram element and creating a visual representation of a plurality of horizontally oriented swimlanes using a second plurality of diagram elements, wherein creating the visual representation of each horizontally oriented swimlane comprises: creating a swimlane title element with text of the derived from a parent source task in the task data, the swimlane title element oriented at an end of the swimlane and configured to span the swimlane vertically and creating one or more swimlane child elements including information from one or more descendent source tasks exclusive to each swimlane child element, the descendent source tasks being descendents from the parent source task and present in the task data wherein the outline numbers represent a plurality of outline levels, wherein the task outline numbers have the form “n1.n2.n3.
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