Re: increase effort estimate on the fly.

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Konstantin Antipin <antipin.konstantin@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: increase effort estimate on the fly.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:57:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <892BA2CE-13DC-4A6C-B15A-6A5958407FDF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61176df0906090242we7696ddue5ba825ff96622e5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Konstantin,

I have added this functionality, but without the global key binding.

Thanks!

- Carsten

On Jun 9, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Konstantin Antipin wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Recently new feature was added - when you set an estimated effort for
> a task, you can be notified when time is up.
> (sound is controlled with org-clock-sound variable)
> I found that pretty often  from the beginning I can not correctly
> estimate what time task will take and I need to give myself an
> additional time.
>
> To address this issue I wrote couple of functions that helps me with  
> that.
> What do they do:
> When you have clocked item and want to add time (increase effort
> estimate), you call function org-clock-increase-effort-estimate, which
> will ask you for a time period. It will update update currently
> clocked item in a buffer as well as a mode line.
>
> I hope this might be helpful to someone
>
> Kostya
>
> defun org-clock-increase-effort-estimate (add-effort)
>  "Add time to the effort estimate.
> Update Effort property of currently clocked item.
> Update mode line."
>  (interactive "sHow much to add? (hh:mm or mm)? ")
>  (if (and (org-clock-is-active) org-clock-effort)
>      (let ((add-effort-minutes (org-string-to-minutes add-effort)))
> 	(progn (setq org-clock-effort (org-minutes-to-hh:mm-string
> 				       (+ add-effort-minutes
> 					  (org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes org-clock-effort))))
> 	       (org-clock-update-mode-line)
> 	       (message "about to increase effort.")
> 	       (org-clock-set-effort-estimate-in-buffer org-clock-effort)
> 	       )
> 	))
>  )
>
> (defun org-clock-set-effort-estimate-in-buffer (effort-string)
>  "Increase effort estimate PROPERTY for the currently clocked item.
> Jump to the correct buffer, increace the PROPERTY, jump back."
>  (if (org-clock-is-active)
>      (progn
> 	(let ((back-mark (point-marker)))
> 	  (org-clock-goto)
> 	  (org-set-property "Effort" effort-string)
> 	  (switch-to-buffer (marker-buffer back-mark))
> 	  (goto-char back-mark)
> 	  (message "Effort was increased.")
> 	  ))))
>
>
>
> (defun org-string-to-minutes (string)
>  "Recognizes two formats:
> 1:30 - converted to minutes
> 30   - interpreted as minutes."
>  (case  (length (split-string string ":"))
>    (2 (org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes string))
>    (1 (string-to-int string))
>    )
>  )
>
> (defun org-clock-is-active ()
>  "Return true if clock is currently running.
> nil otherwise."
>  (if (marker-buffer org-clock-marker)
>      t)
>  )
>
>
> ;; Suggested bindings
> (org-defkey org-mode-map "\C-c\C-x\C-e" 'org-clock-increase-effort- 
> estimate)
> (global-set-key "\C-c\C-x\C-e" 'org-clock-increase-effort-estimate)
>
>
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