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TimeLiner Export

Exports every TimeLiner task to a styled Excel workbook: outline numbers and indented names, planned and actual dates, durations, type, progress, status, attachments and user columns.

Status

Related asks to confirm

No quote is on record yet. These threads look related, but a person still has to open and read them.

• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/navisworks-forum/timeliner-task-hierarchy-nesting-doesn-t-follow-the-imported-csv/td-p/8587160

Installs with

TimeLiner Export sits in a stack, so installing it also installs:

• Schedule Health

Events it listens to

None. It runs only when you click it.

Files

Paths are relative to the Playground.extension folder.

• Project.tab/4D.panel/Schedule_Tools.stack/TimeLiner_Export.pushbutton/bundle.yaml
• Project.tab/4D.panel/Schedule_Tools.stack/TimeLiner_Export.pushbutton/icon.dark.png
• Project.tab/4D.panel/Schedule_Tools.stack/TimeLiner_Export.pushbutton/icon.png
• Project.tab/4D.panel/Schedule_Tools.stack/TimeLiner_Export.pushbutton/icon.small.dark.png
• Project.tab/4D.panel/Schedule_Tools.stack/TimeLiner_Export.pushbutton/icon.small.png
• Project.tab/4D.panel/Schedule_Tools.stack/TimeLiner_Export.pushbutton/script.py

Install

1. Only this tool. In Navisworks, click pyNavis > Playground, search for TimeLiner Export, tick it and click Install.
2. The whole extension. Download Playground.extension.zip, unzip it, put the Playground.extension folder in %APPDATA%\pyNavis\extensions\, and click pyNavis > Reload. TimeLiner Export is on the Project tab, 4D panel.

You need pyNavis 1.3.0 or later.

Source

The tool's own files, word for word as published in pynavis/Playground. Paths are relative to the Playground.extension folder.

script.py

The script that runs on a click.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Exports every TimeLiner task to a styled Excel workbook with outline, dates, status and attachments."""
from pynavis import toast

from namo import fourd_common, progress, reports, ui

TITLE = 'TimeLiner Export'


def run():
    if ui.is_runner():
        result = reports.run('timeliner_export', {}, interactive=False)
        toast.show(result['level'], result['message'], result['detail'])
        return
    doc = fourd_common.active_doc()
    path = fourd_common.ask_save(doc, 'TimeLiner tasks', 'xlsx', 'Export TimeLiner tasks')
    if path is None:
        return
    config = fourd_common.report_config(reports.default_config('timeliner_export'), path)
    result = progress.run(TITLE, lambda report: reports.run('timeliner_export', config, doc=doc,
                                                            interactive=True, progress=report))
    if result is progress.CANCELLED or result.get('cancelled'):
        return
    toast.show(result['level'], result['message'], result['detail'])
    if result['level'] == 'success' and result['paths']:
        fourd_common.open_file(result['paths'][0])


run()

Library modules this tool uses

From the shared namo library, which installs with every tool. Each name opens the module on GitHub.

• namo.fourd_commonHelpers the 4D, Quantities and Field tools share: scopes, default files, text.
• namo.progressGlue between pyNavis' cancellable progress window and Playground's progress callbacks.
• namo.reportsThe registry of automation-ready reports, and the helpers every report shares.
• namo.uiWPF building blocks for Playground tools, themed from the pyNavis design system.

bundle.yaml

The bundle contract: the keys pyNavis reads for this tool.

title: TimeLiner Export
tooltip: Exports every TimeLiner task to a styled Excel workbook: outline numbers and indented names, planned and actual dates, durations, type, progress, status, attachments and user columns.
context: doc