From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Rigby Subject: Tracking time estimates for incomplete tasks Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:56:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1406757375.1375999.147440774.5D9C0563@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCbrF-0003FW-6e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:56:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCbrA-0002Tu-DM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:56:25 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCbrA-0002ST-5m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:56:20 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D158C23775 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:56:15 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, I've been using org-mode to track the time spent on various tasks in a project, by clocking work time. I'm now planning additional tasks, and for these new tasks I am starting to add time estimates. The columnview dynamic block gives a nice summary of the time I've spent on tasks, and the time estimates. I'm interested in tracking the time estimates for only the incomplete tasks. I've created an additional column for this in the columnview table. Is there a way to add up the estimated times of only the incomplete tasks? Maybe a table formula could populate the additional column using this pseudo-code: "if Status == TODO/NEXT then print estimated time else print 0" and then the sum could be calculated. Note that the time estimates can be specified in hours or days (1 day = 7 hours). The table already converts the clocked times and the time estimates into days using this rule, but the formula would have to handle it as well. A metric I would be interested in for tracking progress is (sum of time estimates for all incomplete tasks) / ((sum of time estimates for all incomplete tasks) + (clocked time of all completed tasks)), so maybe the table could calculate this as well. Hope this makes sense. Regards, Dan