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* Time estimates time format?
@ 2011-09-19 16:58 Johan Ekh
  2011-09-19 23:24 ` Bernt Hansen
  2011-09-20  6:57 ` Christian Egli
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Johan Ekh @ 2011-09-19 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

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Hi all,
I'm trying to monitor my projects with org-mode. I'd like to make time
estimates for different
activities and then monitor time spent on the activities. In the manual I
found

#+PROPERTY: Effort_ALL 0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00
#+COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %17Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %CLOCKSUM

which works.

But I'd like to make estimates in days, weeks or even months. And have spent
time displayed in
percentage of the estimate. Is this possible?

Best regards
Johan

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* Re: Time estimates time format?
  2011-09-19 16:58 Time estimates time format? Johan Ekh
@ 2011-09-19 23:24 ` Bernt Hansen
  2011-09-20  6:57 ` Christian Egli
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bernt Hansen @ 2011-09-19 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Johan Ekh; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying to monitor my projects with org-mode. I'd like to make
> time estimates for different
> activities and then monitor time spent on the activities. In the
> manual I found
>
>
> #+PROPERTY: Effort_ALL 0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00
> #+COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %17Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %CLOCKSUM
>
> which works.
>
> But I'd like to make estimates in days, weeks or even months. And
> have spent time displayed in
> percentage of the estimate. Is this possible?

Not that I'm aware of.  I break tasks down and estimate the smaller bits
(up to a day).

Regards,
Bernt

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* Re: Time estimates time format?
  2011-09-19 16:58 Time estimates time format? Johan Ekh
  2011-09-19 23:24 ` Bernt Hansen
@ 2011-09-20  6:57 ` Christian Egli
  2011-09-20  7:28   ` Johan Ekh
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christian Egli @ 2011-09-20  6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:

> But I'd like to make estimates in days, weeks or even months. 

You can certainly do that. Have a look at org-effort-durations. You
could for example define the effort as '2d', '4w' or '7m'.

> And have spent time displayed in percentage of the estimate. Is this
> possible?

You might be able to do something along this line. Have a look at the
doc string of org-properties-postprocess-alist where it gives you an
example on how to calculate the remaining time (clocked vs estimated).

HTH
-- 
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

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* Re: Time estimates time format?
  2011-09-20  6:57 ` Christian Egli
@ 2011-09-20  7:28   ` Johan Ekh
  2011-09-20 12:37     ` Christian Egli
       [not found]     ` <CAH13Zgi6L4DvxRPyO2XC5GS8fuFRCirsaPZMGyxKdNCjYHucLA@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Johan Ekh @ 2011-09-20  7:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Egli; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

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Thank you,

I've changed to

#+PROPERTY: Effort_ALL 2d 1w 2w 3w 4w 2m
#+COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %17Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %CLOCKSUM

but there is no mapping between days, weeks, months and hours. For example,
'2d' + '1w' is summed as '3:00'. How can I change this?

The best for me would be to have the summed effort in weeks.

Best regards,
Johan


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>wrote:

> Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > But I'd like to make estimates in days, weeks or even months.
>
> You can certainly do that. Have a look at org-effort-durations. You
> could for example define the effort as '2d', '4w' or '7m'.
>
> > And have spent time displayed in percentage of the estimate. Is this
> > possible?
>
> You might be able to do something along this line. Have a look at the
> doc string of org-properties-postprocess-alist where it gives you an
> example on how to calculate the remaining time (clocked vs estimated).
>
> HTH
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
>
>

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* Re: Time estimates time format?
  2011-09-20  7:28   ` Johan Ekh
@ 2011-09-20 12:37     ` Christian Egli
       [not found]     ` <CAH13Zgi6L4DvxRPyO2XC5GS8fuFRCirsaPZMGyxKdNCjYHucLA@mail.gmail.com>
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christian Egli @ 2011-09-20 12:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Johan Ekh; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you,
>
> I've changed to
>
> #+PROPERTY: Effort_ALL 2d 1w 2w 3w 4w 2m
> #+COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %17Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %CLOCKSUM
>
> but there is no mapping between days, weeks, months and hours. For example,
> '2d' + '1w' is summed as '3:00'. How can I change this?

Ah, according to http://orgmode.org/org.html#Column-attributes the {:}
sums the times and treats the times as "HH:MM, plain numbers are hours".
I guess this is a bug? You can define efforts in terms of weeks, etc.
Some parts of org-mode respect it but column view apparently not. Sorry.
Patches or even just proper bug reports are welcome.

Thanks
-- 
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

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* Re: Time estimates time format?
       [not found]       ` <87ipon1j9z.fsf@sbs.ch>
@ 2011-09-20 13:26         ` Johan Ekh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Johan Ekh @ 2011-09-20 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Egli; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

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I found it here

http://patchwork.newartisans.com/patch/638/

do you know how to apply it?

Johan


2011/9/20 Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>

> Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > There appears to be a patch for this and I've downloaded it.
>
> Where is this patch?
>
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
> -----
> Viel Neues fuer Hoerspiel-Fans: Eine aktuelle Uebersicht des Angebots bei
> der SBS finden Sie unter http://www.sbs.ch/hoerspiele .
>

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