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[Software Recommendations Required] Outliner with multiple columns per node including numeric ones that can be summarised
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Posted by 22111
Mar 8, 2023 at 04:13 PM
For once, I’m with Mr. Brice: OP’s requirements are beyond me, I would have preferred some more, more specific details of what’s called for, and why / in which way then that would go beyond of what any really decent outliner-with-transclusion would automatically provide. (I’m not that bright, you’know? So sorry!)
Posted by 22111
Mar 8, 2023 at 04:19 PM
On second thought, learn some SQL, and get some (free) SQLite front-end, or then learn Regex, upon export. (Earlier versions of MyInfo, “on paper” at least, offered what you were after, but then, were incredibly unstable, even with absolutely “basic” tries in that range, but that might have changed with their last version, so have a look into that one first; then again, some regex upon export could come handy. Or then, probably, InfoQube - I hope I spelled that right - OMG: those leading “Q"s, in nowaday’s names!)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 8, 2023 at 07:03 PM
If I understand your intention correctly, then the Outline (Group) functions of Excel should suffice.
You can use Groups within Groups within Groups etc. to achieve the hierarchies you want, and for adding parameters you’ll have more columns than you are ever likely to need.
The solution is not as flexible or powerful as the wonderful InfoQube and Hyper Plan, but it relies on something that you probably own/use/know already.
BTW, I for one am all for our friendly developers mentioning their tools, whenever these provide convenient solutions to requests posted here.
Navigator8 wrote:
>For each line like Task F1T! -> I have columns to add Actor and Effort
>and I will be able to add Effort at Feature and Phase level et.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 19, 2023 at 10:46 AM
WBS creation on Hyper Plan is just brilliant! Thank you for the excellent tutorial too :)
Andy Brice wrote:
>You can so this in my own Hyper Plan software (for Windows or Mac). For
>example when creating a workbreakdown structure:
>https://www.hyperplan.com/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html
Posted by Amontillado
Mar 19, 2023 at 02:46 PM
Musing a bit, playing with Hyper Plan….
In Andy’s Work Breakdown example, I can have a card for each chapter or story beat, related to cards for things of interest. That would be like a WBS chart with multiple roots.
If a thing related to two chapters, both chapters would have a relationship link to the thing.
Further musing, and thinking about the capabilities of the Filter, I could add a Chapter property. If I added chapters in the form of “-1-” for chapter 1, “-26-1-7-” for chapters 1, 7, and 26, I could see just the chapter 7 hierarchy with a “show” filter for “chapter contains -7-”. The dash prefix/postfix, means if I filter for -2-, I won’t also see -26-.
The plus button on the stored views feature will let me save a Chapter 7 view.
As I filter for different chapters, I can add stored chapter views.
Possibilities, possibilities. A story outliner that does double duty as project kanban utility, bill-paying watchdog, etc. Nice.
Andy Brice wrote:
You can so this in my own Hyper Plan software (for Windows or Mac). For
>example when creating a workbreakdown structure:
>https://www.hyperplan.com/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html
>
>I’m not sure if that is what you are looking for.