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TJ3 resource allocator 1.3
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Earlier files (now out of date) are available for reference.

This is a spec file generator for TaskJuggler III.

TaskJuggler is a strong task management program. Tasks are defined in a special plain-text spec file, from which TaskJuggler generates a concrete schedule and reports in various formats. Version 3 can generate Gantt charts in HTML suitable for the Firefox browser, which makes it easy to share the project online with project members.

If you have a project with tasks that must be performed in parallel by multiple teams (in our case, we must prepare several teams each year for a negotiation competition), this Python script can generate code for inclusion in the TaskJuggler spec file that will allocate selected members of each team to particular tasks.

Note that this package requires the Excel parsing support module that can be found in the Open Office merge suite on this site. Please note also that this program relies on the spreadsheet used to file team memberships with the organizers of our target negotiation competition; it is not a general solution, but can easily be tweaked for other applications with a bit of coding.