[pmwiki-users] Project -- To Do Management with PMWiki

[The Editor]

On 11/27/06, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for some recommendations from PMwiki users on project
> management...

I'm the developer of the ZAP recipe and am planning on adding a module
for PIM functions eventually which will include todo lists, etc.  But
it can already do a wide variety of functions you may find useful, so
it may be just a question of filling in a functionality or two, or
more likely settling on a good way to do what you want with existing
functions.

For example, right now, you can create forms with ZAP that allow you
to save to do items in any group you want with various key word or
item lists. One might be lists of names of people who could work on
it, and another might be related to specific projects, or tasks.  You
can assign due dates or add a completed field.  Then you could use
pagelists to pull up all the todo tasks on your site for a given user
or project automatically.  It even works natively with timestamps so
you could pull up lists of incompleted tasks due in the next 24 hours
or whatever.  Or a page showing all incomplete past deadline tasks...

You can also make the to do lists editable and/or deletable if the
user has some level of permission (admin?).  So your core leaders
could delete or update tasks as needed.  Maybe reassign them to
different personnel, give new deadlines, or whatever.  Also, as each
todo item would be saved as a separate wiki page, you could
distinguish between a button that displays an "add task form" from one
that shows an "edit page form" (depending on whether they are adding
another todo item or to the documentation). And/or allow certain tasks
only to users based on permission level.

If you could specify exactly what you want your wiki's to be able to
do I could tell you if ZAP could be an answer and suggest ways to use
it.  In general, ZAP's strength, like PmWiki, is extreme flexibility.

Of course, if you are just looking for a recommendation as to what you
should actually be trying to create, perhaps others in a similar
production environment would be able to give more help.

Cheers,
Caveman

PS.  You can get more information about ZAP at www.zapsite.org.  In
particular, you might want to take a look at how the comments work in
the snippets section.  It's similar to what I'm suggesting to you.
You will need to login in as a guest user to see the snippets.