To unlock the export manager, you need a licensed copy of our BigTemplate plugin.
Unlocking visual exports you will need to install Google Headless Chrome on your server.
Our Gantt can be exported to the following formats:
Application | File formats | Plugin |
---|---|---|
Microsoft Excel | .xlsx | BigPicture, BigGantt |
Microsoft Project | .mpx, mpp, .pdf | BigPicture, BigGantt |
PDF image | BigPicture, BigGantt |
What can be exported
- Gantt (BigPicture and BigGantt);
- Risk (BigPicture);
- Roadmap (BigPicture);
- Resources (BigPicture).
Gantt
Common notes:
If you want to use export - simply click Export in the top menu to open the export manager:
MS Excel export notes:
Currently 2 columns are added to clarify Work Breakdown Structure of your project:
- "Parent Key" column points to value from column "Id";
- "Parent Row" columns marks the excel row number of the parent task.
Soon it will be able to import links from your project.
Exported link format - "NT±L", where:
- N - row of the links target task;
- T - link type (FF - finish to finish; FS - finish to start; SF - start to finish; SS - start to start);
- ±L - lag time in days;
- multiple links are exported divided by comma.
MSProject
Export to XML
Follow these steps:
- open Program/Gantt which you want to export;
- click Export → MSProject → XML;
- after redirecting to document: RightClick → Save as → Save file in .xml extension;
- open this file using your project viewer (MSProject, ProjectLibre, etc.).
2 kinds of PDF
A direct PDF option will export the Gantt as-is on screen. However, if you select PDF from MS Project's format picker, the exported file will have Project's visual styling:
You might have noticed one of the options is greyed-out on our screenshot. This happens if some technical requirements are not met.
(BigPicture) Roadmap, Resources, Risk
- Click "Export" button on page which you want to export;
- Click on appropriate button depends on what exported file's format should be.
- Wait until page loading ends.
- You will get proposal to choose path to save file or it will be saved to your default download folder (depends on browser's settings).
15 Comments
Anonymous
Does Phantom now work on Windows OS servers?
Marek Lewandowski
Hi,
Currently NO.
Anonymous
Any news on that?
Marek Lewandowski
Please direct your question to http://phantomjs.org/.
Anonymous
Any plan for it and if so by when? Is there a way to get the bars and arrows to show up in the excel export?
Marek Lewandowski
This is not up to us and we do not provide support for Phantom nor Windows.
Currently this is not possible. Please contact us so we can link you to your request - support@softwareplant.com
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Anonymous
Is there way we can insert bigGantt chart into confluence? that updates automatically on confluence?
Marek Lewandowski
Hi,
Sure - please read more about Confluence integration here: https://softwareplant.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BP/pages/74416212/Integrations#Integrations-Confluencepages
Feel free to contact us if you need any further information.
Anonymous
When trying to export the Roadmap view for the Big Picture Add-on i'm getting an error. Do i need to have Microsoft project installed to export the roadmap view?
Anonymous
Why .mpx is not anymore available on the last version of BigPicture + BigTempate ?
Piotrek Romanczyk [SoftwarePlant]
Greetings,
Apologies for the late response on our side.
No need to worry about the MPX / MPP export for BP and BT. Latest releases introduced new Export Manager.
In order to be able to export MPX files, it is required to load this specific template type into your BigTemplate's Export manager as per "Managing Templates" section in this article.
Anonymous
When exporting a chart via PNG or JPEG, there is a dialog in front of the chart.
Title: "How to fly on Cloud"
Content: "We examine BigPicture performance on JIRA Cloud closely and daily, ..."
How can i prevent the dialog?
Anonymous
Hello. I see an additional fields in exported xls file. They are Start Date and End Date. But there is not this fields in my issue fields. May you explain how can I get them for changing manually? It seems this fields are means the real start and end dates safed for issues.
Anonymous
Hi,
Is it possible to export from BigGantt to an excel template with a bit more formatting? If so, how would I do this?
Thanks
Piotrek Romanczyk [SoftwarePlant]
Hello there,
It may be possible with the BigTemplate. Once you make an Export, you can open the XLS / XLSX file and play around with styles. Some fields may be altered and imported back in to the BigTemplate's 'Template Manager' for future use.
An in-depth guideline will be added to this article in the near future.
Kind Regards,
Piotrek of SoftwarePlant