Integrated Timeline Function between OmniOutline and OmniGraffle

[Jeremy Reichman]

I would also be interested in some solution that would let me take 
schedule-type data in OO and link/export it to OG as a visual schedule. 
I do a lot of this and it's not much fun; I currently use a text-based 
setup in Excel, and it's clunky. It's something I've considered 
scripting between OO and OG, but haven't had the time to really think 
about how to automate it.

Like timelines, which I think would be great as well, I don't know of 
any good Mac apps to do this. Some of the apps that generate Gantt 
charts are somewhat similar, but not quite what I'm looking for.

Let me describe a little bit more in words:

1.	I have schedule data that, in some fashion, describes who is 
working, when they are working, and where they are working. The format 
for this is not necessarily important, as long as it is useful.

I typically keep this data in Excel but it's simple enough that it 
could be a list/outline, possibly with columns, in OO.

2.	I want to have a live link, if possible, between this data and a 
visual schedule printout. That printout would look something like the 
"week view" in any calendar program -- let's just say iCal or 
Entourage, for simplicity. "Shifts" should resemble blocks of time, 
much as you would see if you had a meeting in your own schedule in iCal 
or Entourage.

The schedule has to accommodate more than one "shift" for each day. It 
should be able to accommodate overlapping "shifts" for people. I would 
like to be able to assign a color for each person, wherever their name 
appears, on the schedule, to make it easier to show where they are 
working. It would be nice if that color persisted between OO and OG 
updates.


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Jeremy Reichman