how to correctly import weekend settings from GanttProject

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nnako
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how to correctly import weekend settings from GanttProject

Post by nnako » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:50 pm

Hi,

I recently ran into this great software and tried to import a diagram which I created using GanttProject software. Within GanttProject, I activated a setting to NOT regard weekends as work-free days but treat weekends like "normal" work days:
01_original_from_GanttProject.png
now, after successfully importing the diagram from GanttPorject, I see the following respective diagram in ToDoList:
02_representation_in_ToDoList_after_import.png
the blue marks show tasks which are represented too long and the green marks show that the "milestones" are displayed as "tasks".

Is there a way to adjust these effects, so that I would be able to regard weekends as work days and maybe even show milestones with a different symbol within ToDoList?

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Re: how to correctly import weekend settings from GanttProject

Post by abstr » Sun Mar 16, 2025 8:50 am

Welcome @nnako

TDL doesn't treat weekends (as defined in the Preferences) as working days - so a 2 day task beginning on Friday is assumed to extend to end of Monday.

You can maybe get around this by disabling weekends in the Preferences, then importing the GP project, and then restoring the weekend settings.

However, if you subsequently move those those tasks around you may run into TDL's default behaviour.

If you want more help than this, you'll need to attach a sample GP project (just a cut-down obfuscated version of your real data) that I can play with...

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