Pgfgantt: table or formatting for the task names and extra information

pgfgantt

Problem: I am trying to include more information on the task name on a Gantt chart made with pgfgantt, in the form: ID, task name, duration and perhaps more information such as start/end dates. I am planning on making fortnightly and summary Gantt charts for specific periods so I need to include ID's so that they can be referenced.

My current method: I am using a custom command with \parbox's so that the information can be included and spaced correctly but I could not see a way to include a heading above it to specify what the information means e.g. "ID", "Task Name", "Duration". Nor could I find a way to include formatting like boundaries so it resembles a table.

What I would like: Preferably, if there is a way to put information in a table to the left of the Gantt chart that would be ideal, but if that is not possible or difficult (I do not know TikZ well and I read that is what pgfgantt uses) then a way of introducing boundaries ("1 | Example task name | 3 days ") and/or a heading above the first entry would be nice. I am open to other methods then using \parbox but that is a back-up method if needed. I obtained most of the code in the MWE from the pgfgantt manual, I think it was an example.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfgantt}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}

\newcommand\TEF[3]{\textbf{[#1]}\hspace{0.2cm}\parbox{3cm}{#2}\hspace{0.2cm}\parbox{1cm}{#3}}

\begin{document}
\begin{ganttchart}[ %
    vgrid, hgrid,
    y unit title=0.6cm,
    y unit chart=0.5cm,
    title label font=\tiny,
    bar label font=\tiny,
    group label font=\tiny,
    milestone label font=\tiny,
    today label font=\tiny,
    vrule label font=\tiny]{1}{24}
\gantttitle{2011}{24} \\
\gantttitlelist{1,...,24}{1} \\
\ganttgroup{\TEF{3}{Text to see if it puts it in right}{14 days}}{1}{7} \\
\ganttbar{\TEF{3}{Text to see if it puts it in right}{2 days}}{1}{2} \\
\ganttlinkedbar{\TEF{3}{Text to see if it puts it in right}{2 days}}{3}{7} \ganttnewline
\ganttmilestone{\TEF{3}{Text to see if it puts it in right}{2 days}}{7} \ganttnewline
\ganttbar{\TEF{3}{Text to see if it puts it in}{2 days}}{8}{12}
\ganttlink{elem2}{elem3}
\ganttlink{elem3}{elem4}

\end{ganttchart}
\end{document}

How it currently looks:

Any help would be appreciated, I am not sure why there is such a gap between the "# days" and the chart either.

Best Answer

One possibility is to style the bar-, group- and milestone- label node keys using rectangle split to make 3 columns. Then you can use a modified version of your \TEF command to place the content in each nodepart. Each of those nodeparts can then be formatted for the necessary width, alignment and so on. The column headers are just a ganttbar that does not draw a bar.

% https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/612214/
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfgantt}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.multipart}
\newcommand\TEF[3]{\nodepart[text width=0.75cm,align=center]{one}\textbf{[#1]} 
                   \nodepart[text width=3cm]{two}{#2} 
                   \nodepart[text width=1.0cm,align=right]{three}{#3}
                   }

\begin{document}

\begin{ganttchart}[ %
    vgrid, hgrid,
    y unit title=0.6cm,
    y unit chart=0.75cm,
    title label font=\tiny,
    bar label font=\tiny,
    bar label node/.append style={rectangle split, rectangle split parts=3,rectangle split horizontal,draw,},
    group label font=\tiny,
    group label node/.append style={rectangle split, rectangle split parts=3,rectangle split horizontal,draw},
    milestone label font=\tiny,
    milestone label node/.append style={rectangle split, rectangle split parts=3,rectangle split horizontal,draw},
    today label font=\tiny,
    vrule label font=\tiny]{1}{12}
\gantttitle{2011}{12} \\
\gantttitlelist{1,...,12}{1} \\
\ganttbar{\TEF {ID} {Task Name} {Duration}}{1} {0} \\
\ganttgroup{\TEF {1} {Text to see if it puts it in right} {14 days}} {1} {7} \\
\ganttbar{\TEF {2} {Text to see if it puts it in right} {2 days}} {1} {2} \\
\ganttlinkedbar{\TEF {3} {Text to see if it puts it in right} {2 days}} {3} {7} \ganttnewline
\ganttmilestone{\TEF {4} {Text to see if it puts it in right} {2 days}} {7} \ganttnewline
\ganttbar[bar/.append style={fill=green}]{\TEF {5} {Text to see if it puts it in} {2 days}} {8} {12}
\ganttlink{elem2}{elem3}
\ganttlink{elem3}{elem4}
\end{ganttchart}

\end{document}

Which gives this:

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You can either break the lines or you can introduce labels together with a legend.

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage{pgfgantt}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{ganttchart}[vgrid,bar label node/.append style={align=right}] {1}{12}
\gantttitle{2018}{12} \\
\gantttitlelist{1,...,12}{1} \\
\ganttbar{State of the art \& prior art analysis}{1}{3} \\ 
\ganttbar{Define development orientations}{4}{5} \\
\ganttbar{Specify device utility management\\ System physical interface}{6}{07} \\
\ganttbar{Develop/adapt/produce required\\ sets of physical interface elements}{8}{12} 
\end{ganttchart}
\bigskip
\hrule
\bigskip

\noindent
\begin{ganttchart}[vgrid] {1}{12}
\gantttitle{2018}{12} \\
\gantttitlelist{1,...,12}{1} \\
\ganttbar{Task A}{1}{3} \\ 
\ganttbar{Task B}{4}{5} \\
\ganttbar{Task C}{6}{07} \\
\ganttbar{Task D}{8}{12} 
\end{ganttchart}
\medskip

\noindent
\begin{tabularx}\linewidth{@{}lX@{}}
  Task A & State of the art \& prior art analysis\\
  Task B & Define development orientations\\
  Task C & Specify device utility management System physical interface\\
  Task D & Develop/adapt/produce required sets of physical interface elements
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] pgfgantt: Moving a progress label to the left of a bar

This answer sets up two new Gantt chart elements using the \newganttchartelement* macro. It takes a single optional argument and two mandatory arguments <label> and the time slot, <tss>. It operates the same way as does the \milestone macro. The newgantchartelement named lresource can be used to set a node on the left of the task to define the corresponding resource. tss can be given by a value >=1 less than the tss for the corresponding task. For left placed resources, the resource must be specified before the task. The same logic applies to rresource newganttchartelement, except that it sets the resource on the right of the corresponding task. In this case, the resource must be specified after the task.

Regarding the OP's question about setting [inline=false] globally for ganttbar, this may not be possible. The manual says in section 2.2:

Since pgfgantt uses the pgfkeys package for key management, all its keys reside in the /pgfgantt/ path.

My interpretation of this statement is that having set inline=true for the lresource and rresource, that setting operates globally until it is specifically reset in each ganttbar by writing ganttbar[inline=false].

This is the result, with the ganttbar[inline=false]:

Here is the MWE, with some additional comments in the code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{pgfgantt}
\pagestyle{empty}

\newganttchartelement*{lresource}{ % The starred version mimics a milestone element with 2 options
    lresource/.style={}, % Don't draw the node
    inline=true,
    lresource inline label node/.style={anchor=east,font=\bfseries\itshape\color{blue}},
    lresource left shift=0ex,
    lresource right shift=0ex
}
\newganttchartelement*{rresource}{
    rresource/.style={},
    inline=true,
    rresource inline label node/.style={anchor=west,font=\bfseries\itshape\color{blue}},
    rresource left shift=0ex,
    rresource right shift=0ex
}

\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{ganttchart}[
    hgrid,
    vgrid={draw=none, draw=none, dotted},
    progress=100,
    progress label text={}]%
    {1}{36}
    \gantttitle{Y1}{12} \gantttitle{Y2}{12} \gantttitle{Y3}{12} \\
    \gantttitlelist{1,...,36}{1} \\
    \ganttlresource{resource}{5} % Make the tss value one less than the start of Task 1
    \ganttbar[inline=false]{Task1}{6}{10} \\
    \ganttlresource{resource}{31} % Make the tss value one less than the start of Task 2
    \ganttbar[inline=false]{Task2}{32}{36} \\
    \ganttbar[inline=false]{Task3}{15}{19}
    \ganttrresource{resource}{20} % Make the tss value one more than the end of Task 3
\end{ganttchart}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

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