Is is possible to change the milestone icon from a diamond?

Question

Hello, the team I work with uses different milestone icons to represent different types of events on Gantt Charts (e.g. a star for a critical decision meeting, a square for a periodic off-site meeting, etc..)   We are hoping to use PlantUML to replace a tedious PowerPoint schedule (Gantt) creation process.

Is it possible to change the PlantUML Gantt chart milestone icon with a style (or other method)?  Perhaps to a wingding or webding font, an emoji, or a MDI icon?  

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That is a good idea! Sorry about the delay :-)

What about:

@startgantt
[Test prototype] requires 10 days.
[Prototype completed] happens at [Test prototype]'s end.
It is displayed as <:innocent:>
@endgantt

The example is available here.

It's really a first draft: we are open to suggestion!

Comments

Hello,

nice work. I experience problems with the position of the icon, when using other projectscale as dialy such as weekly or monthly and other zoom level than 1. The icon is not in a similar horizontal position as the standard diamond (see figure below). Can you fix that?

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@startgantt

projectscale weekly zoom 1

[Test prototype] requires 10 days.

[Prototype completed] happens at [Test prototype]'s end.

It is displayed as <:innocent:>

[std. diamond] happens at [Test prototype]'s end.

@endgantt

```

Thanks. 

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Hello,

A suggestion at this point would also be to have a svg element as symbol for prgrammatically controlling of color and shape of the symbol (see figure)

Thanks

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For that, see also this point:

• [Gantt] Improve head of arrow position? · Issue #1627 · plantuml/plantuml