Index


1	Introduction
1.1	About TaskJuggler
1.2	About TaskJuggler III
1.3	License and Copyright
1.4	Features and Highlights
1.5	TaskJuggler on the Web
1.6	TaskJuggler 2.x Migration
1.7	Using TaskJuggler 2.x and TaskJuggler 3.x in parallel
1.8	Reporting Bugs and Sending Feedback

2	Installation
2.1	Requirements
2.1.1	Supported Operating Systems
2.1.2	Other required Software
2.2	Installation Steps for Users
2.2.1	The easy way
2.2.2	The manual way
2.3	Update from older TaskJuggler III versions
2.4	Installation Steps for Developers
2.5	Quickly switching between various TaskJuggler III versions
2.6	Installing a newer Ruby version
2.7	Installing the Vim Support
2.8	How to Contribute
2.8.1	Why contribute?
2.8.2	Preparing a contribution
2.8.3	Creating a Patch
2.8.4	Contributing to the User Manual
2.8.5	Contributing to the Test Suite
2.8.6	Contributing to the Ruby code
2.8.7	Some final words to Contributors

3	Getting Started
3.1	Basics
3.2	Structure of a TJP File

4	The Tutorial: Your first Project
4.1	Starting the project
4.2	Global Attributes
4.3	Macros
4.4	Declaring Flags
4.5	Declaring Accounts
4.6	Declaring Resources
4.7	Specifying the Tasks
4.8	Specifying Milestones
4.9	Visualizing the Project

5	The TaskJuggler Syntax
5.1	Understanding the Syntax Reference
5.1.1	ABSOLUTE_ID
5.1.2	ID
5.1.3	INTEGER
5.1.4	STRING
5.2	Predefined Macros
5.3	Environment Variable Expansions
5.4	Rich Text Attributes
5.4.1	Block Markups
5.4.2	In-Line Markups
5.4.3	Block and Inline Generators

6	The TaskJuggler Software
6.1	tj3
6.2	tj3man
6.3	tj3d
6.4	tj3client

7	Day To Day Juggling
7.1	Working with multiple scenarios
7.2	Important and fall-back Tasks
7.3	Tracking the Project
7.4	Recording Progress
7.4.1	Using completion values
7.4.2	Using bookings
7.5	Tracking status and actuals
7.5.1	The reporting and tracking cycle
7.6	Implementing the status tracking system
7.6.1	Prerequesites
7.6.2	The Time Sheet Template Sender
7.6.3	The Time Sheet Receiver
7.6.4	Time Sheet Template Requests
7.6.5	Time Sheet Summaries
7.6.6	Updating the Project Plan
7.7	Recording actual Resource Usage
7.7.1	Status Sheets
7.7.2	The Status Sheet Template Sender
7.7.3	Requesting Status Sheet Templates
7.7.4	The Status Sheet Receiver

8	TaskJuggler Internals
8.1	How the Scheduler works

9	GNU Free Documentation License

A	Syntax Reference
A.1	account
A.2	account (task)
A.3	accountprefix
A.4	active
A.5	adopt (task)
A.6	alert
A.7	alert level
A.8	allocate
A.9	alternative
A.10	author
A.11	balance
A.12	booking (resource)
A.13	booking (task)
A.14	caption
A.15	cellcolor (column)
A.16	celltext (column)
A.17	center
A.18	charge
A.19	chargeset
A.20	columnid
A.21	columns
A.22	complete
A.23	copyright
A.24	credit
A.25	currency
A.26	currencyformat
A.27	dailymax
A.28	dailymin
A.29	dailyworkinghours
A.30	date
A.31	date (extend)
A.32	definitions
A.33	depends
A.34	details
A.35	disabled
A.36	duration
A.37	efficiency
A.38	effort
A.39	email
A.40	enabled
A.41	end
A.42	end (column)
A.43	end (limit)
A.44	end (report)
A.45	end (timesheet)
A.46	endcredit
A.47	epilog
A.48	export
A.49	extend
A.50	fail
A.51	flags
A.52	flags (account)
A.53	flags (journalentry)
A.54	flags (report)
A.55	flags (resource)
A.56	flags (statussheet)
A.57	flags (task)
A.58	flags (timesheet)
A.59	fontcolor (column)
A.60	footer
A.61	formats
A.62	functions
A.63	gapduration
A.64	gaplength
A.65	halign (center)
A.66	halign (column)
A.67	halign (left)
A.68	halign (right)
A.69	hasalert
A.70	header
A.71	headline
A.72	hidejournalentry
A.73	hidereport
A.74	hideresource
A.75	hidetask
A.76	icalreport
A.77	include (macro)
A.78	include (project)
A.79	include (properties)
A.80	inherit (extend)
A.81	interval1
A.82	interval2
A.83	interval3
A.84	interval4
A.85	isactive
A.86	ischildof
A.87	isdependencyof
A.88	isdutyof
A.89	isfeatureof
A.90	isleaf
A.91	ismilestone
A.92	isongoing
A.93	isresource
A.94	istask
A.95	journalattributes
A.96	journalentry
A.97	journalmode
A.98	left
A.99	length
A.100	limits
A.101	limits (allocate)
A.102	limits (resource)
A.103	limits (task)
A.104	listitem (column)
A.105	listtype (column)
A.106	loadunit
A.107	logicalexpression
A.108	logicalflagexpression
A.109	macro
A.110	managers
A.111	mandatory
A.112	maxend
A.113	maximum
A.114	maxstart
A.115	milestone
A.116	minend
A.117	minimum
A.118	minstart
A.119	monthlymax
A.120	monthlymin
A.121	navigator
A.122	newtask
A.123	nikureport
A.124	note (task)
A.125	now
A.126	numberformat
A.127	onend
A.128	onstart
A.129	opennodes
A.130	overtime (booking)
A.131	period (column)
A.132	period (limit)
A.133	period (report)
A.134	period (task)
A.135	persistent
A.136	precedes
A.137	priority
A.138	priority (timesheet)
A.139	project
A.140	projectid
A.141	projectid (task)
A.142	projectids
A.143	projection
A.144	prolog
A.145	properties
A.146	purge
A.147	rate
A.148	rate (resource)
A.149	reference (extend)
A.150	remaining
A.151	replace
A.152	report
A.153	reportprefix
A.154	resource
A.155	resourceattributes
A.156	resourceprefix
A.157	resourcereport
A.158	resourceroot
A.159	resources (limit)
A.160	responsible
A.161	richtext (extend)
A.162	right
A.163	rollupresource
A.164	rolluptask
A.165	scale (column)
A.166	scenario
A.167	scenario (ical)
A.168	scenarios
A.169	scenarios (export)
A.170	scenariospecific (extend)
A.171	scheduled
A.172	scheduling
A.173	select
A.174	selfcontained
A.175	shift
A.176	shift (resource)
A.177	shift (task)
A.178	shift (timesheet)
A.179	shifts (allocate)
A.180	shifts (resource)
A.181	shifts (task)
A.182	shorttimeformat
A.183	sloppy (booking)
A.184	sloppy (projection)
A.185	sortjournalentries
A.186	sortresources
A.187	sorttasks
A.188	start
A.189	start (column)
A.190	start (limit)
A.191	start (report)
A.192	startcredit
A.193	status (statussheet)
A.194	status (timesheet)
A.195	statussheet
A.196	statussheetreport
A.197	strict (projection)
A.198	summary
A.199	supplement
A.200	supplement (resource)
A.201	supplement (task)
A.202	tagfile
A.203	task
A.204	task (statussheet)
A.205	task (timesheet)
A.206	taskattributes
A.207	taskprefix
A.208	taskreport
A.209	taskroot
A.210	text (extend)
A.211	textreport
A.212	timeformat
A.213	timeoff (nikureport)
A.214	timesheet
A.215	timesheetreport
A.216	timezone
A.217	timezone (export)
A.218	timezone (report)
A.219	timezone (shift)
A.220	timingresolution
A.221	title
A.222	title (column)
A.223	tooltip (column)
A.224	trackingscenario
A.225	treelevel
A.226	vacation
A.227	vacation (resource)
A.228	vacation (shift)
A.229	warn
A.230	weeklymax
A.231	weeklymin
A.232	weekstartsmonday
A.233	weekstartssunday
A.234	width (column)
A.235	work
A.236	workinghours (project)
A.237	workinghours (resource)
A.238	workinghours (shift)
A.239	yearlyworkingdays

The TaskJuggler III User Manual

This manual covers TaskJuggler III version 0.2.2.