Goal Hierarchy visualisation

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Example From Stewart Green's thesis page 173

• Step 1 - define goals and dependencies in a spreadsheet
• Step 2 - Save as csv with the suffix .csv
• Display as GIF:
  • Generate and display the GIF goals2gif.php?infile=sg173
  • This PHP script script reads the csv file
  • generates a dot file
  • which is passed to GraphViz which generates a GIF image
  • Printing

    Printing GIFS from IE doesnt work well - I need to see how to control it better, but one way is to save the image (the image not the page by right-clinking on the image itself) and then you can insert it into Word or load it into Photo Editer or some such and print from there.

• or Display as SVG
  • SVG will allow interaction with the graph but you need the Adobe SVG plugin.
  • Show SVG output

    This also looks better on screen, and printing is more easily controlled, but poorer quality than the GIF.

Further work

Could add column for priority and change generated shape or colour accordingly

Goals could be in a database