Re: Display missing/overlapping clock ranges

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>]

Dear Carsten,

yesterday I found some time to check all my clockings starting from the begining of the year.
With the help of the agenda gaps and overlaps indication I found quite some faults in my clockings.

I found the functions to be very helpful!
Org is becoming more useful all the time!

Thanks again for implementing!

Maybe you could now implement some function telling me what I did in the clocking gaps ... :-)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
    Rainer Stengele 

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Am 27.04.2011 13:53, schrieb Carsten Dominik:
> On Apr 24, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>
>> Am 24.04.2011 17:30, schrieb Carsten Dominik:
>>> On 13.4.2011, at 23:06, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I do clock every task I work on during the whole day.
>>>>>> At the end of the day or week I have to go over all clock entries in my agenda
>>>>>> and see if there are holes or overlappings in my clock tables.
>>>>>> If yes I have to adjust the clocks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I read Bernt Hansen's comments on how he works with clocks
>>>>>> (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What about a function showing the lacking clock ranges over
>>>>>> the day while being in the agenda with log mode on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The function could even check for overlapping clock ranges and indicate these
>>>>>> or jump to these.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe it would even be good to be able to configure daily and weekly
>>>>>> regular holes in the ranges, for example
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - daily lunch time from [12:00]--[13:00]
>>>>>> - week end days (maybe with diary syntax)
>>>>>> - working days (Monday to Friday for example)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Rainer
>>>>> I'd defintely use something which identified the gaps and overlaps as
>>>>> they're taking some time to find now that I have to account more closely
>>>>> for my time! I've been considering whether to raise this for a
>>>>> while. The 'regular holes' idea is good to, although not as important
>>>>> for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>> Hi Rainer and Paul,
>>>>
>>>> Locating gaps would be useful.  I've been meaning to investigate this
>>>> but haven't spent any time on it yet.  With my current clocking setup
>>>> I've found I get very few holes.  Checking the times is a task I do
>>>> manually just before billing for my time.  I currently just use a visual
>>>> scan of the daily agenda(s) including clocking lines displayed ensuring
>>>> that the start and end times match over the clocking period.
>>>>
>>>> It should be possible to automate the check.  How should a filtered
>>>> agenda be handled?  I expect you'd want to see the gaps for the entries
>>>> that are filtered away otherwise it's only really meaningful when you
>>>> look at the entire clocking data.
>>>>
>>>> The major problem I used to have was clocks that would be opened and
>>>> never closed.  These were bad because they count as 0 minutes and
>>>> without fixing those entries I don't bill for that time.  Since the
>>>> invention of M-x org-resolve-clocks (which runs everytime I clock in) I
>>>> now find these open clocks quickly and don't need to reconstruct the
>>>> data a week later.  I haven't had this problem in a long time.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe something like the following mock up?
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> Day-agenda (W15):
>>>> Wednesday  13 April 2011
>>>> todo:        7:09- 7:11 Clocked:   (0:02) Organization                                   :PERSONAL::
>>>>              7:11- 8:00 - Gap ->   (0:49)
>>>> org:         8:00- 8:12 Clocked:   (0:12) DONE Try to fix this bug                :ORG:WORK:tuning::
>>>> todo:        8:12- 8:26 Clocked:   (0:14) Organization                                   :PERSONAL::
>>>> diary:       8:26- 9:06 Clocked:   (0:40) Breakfast
>>>> todo:        9:06- 9:30 Clocked:   (0:24) Task A                                         :PERSONAL::
>>>>              9:30-10:58 - Gap ->   (1:28)
>>>>             10:00...... ----------------
>>>> todo:       10:58-11:11 Clocked:   (0:13) Organization                                   :PERSONAL::
>>>>             vvv ------ Overlap ------ vvv
>>>> todo:       11:11-11:12 Clocked:   (0:01) Read Mail and News                             :PERSONAL::
>>>> todo:       11:10-11:14 Clocked:   (0:01) Organization                                   :PERSONAL::
>>>>             ^^^ ------ Overlap ------ ^^^
>>>> todo:       11:14-11:15 Clocked:   (0:01) Read Mail and News                             :PERSONAL::
>>>> todo:       11:15-11:16 Clocked:   (0:01) Organization                                   :PERSONAL::
>>>>             12:00...... ----------------
>>>>             14:00...... ----------------
>>>>             16:00...... ----------------
>>>>             11:16-16:33 - Gap ->   (5:17)
>>>> todo:       16:33...... Clocked:   (-) Read Mail and News                                :PERSONAL::
>>>>             16:43...... now - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>>             18:00...... ----------------
>>>>             20:00...... ----------------
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>> Hi Bernt, Rainer, Paul,
>>>
>>> these are pretty good ideas, and since it is a holiday, I have some time,
>>> so I have tried an implementation and just pushed it to the master.
>>>
>>> This introduces a new key in the agenda, "v c", which will check for
>>> clocking issues and display them in a similar way as Bernt proposes.
>>>
>>> The whole thing works like log view, so it applies to the currently
>>> displayed span in the agenda, and it sticks if you move around
>>> with "f" and "b".  To get out of this view, press "l" to turn off
>>> log view, for example.
>>>
>>> Also, it is a special log view in that it only shows clocking
>>> information, I believe this makes it more direct and useful.
>>>
>>> There is a variable to configure what constitutes clocking issues.
>>> The default value is
>>>
>>> (setq org-agenda-clock-consistency-checks
>>>  '(:max-duration "10:00" :min-duration 0 :max-gap "0:05" :gap-ok-around ("4:00")))
>>>
>>> which means the following:
>>>
>>> 1. Report any clocking chunks that are longer than 10 hours,
>>> 2. Report clocking chunks that are shorter than 0 minutes
>>>   (so this could be used to find short clocks, by setting it
>>>    to one minute or so)
>>> 3. Report gaps in the clocking, if the gap is larger than 5 minutes
>>>   (should than be called :min-gap?  I am confused....)
>>> 4. If the time 4am falls into a large gap, do not report the gap.
>>>   This is to avoid the spurious reporting of gaps between the
>>>   last evening task and the first morning task.
>>>
>>>
>>> Testing and feedback would be much appreciated.
>>> Also, it is not really useful to use this on a filtered agenda view,
>>> but testing of this would be appreciated as well.
>>>
>>> Happy holidays!
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> excellent, I already found some gaps and overlaps in last weeks work
>> clockings!
>>
>> 1. I wonder how to get rif of the lunch break "gaps". Of course I could
>> clock the lunch time as such,
>> but I would prefer to provide my daily fixed lunch time in order to
>> - ignore any gap occuring between start and end of "lunch time"
>>
>> OK I just set 
>>
>> :gap-ok-around ("4:00" "12:30")
>>
>> which did what I wanted. But imagine I would have my lunch break from 12:31 to 12:55. The break would be reported as gap.
>> I would rather have a clock range wherein anay gap would be ignored.
>> Did I understand something wrong?
>>
>>
>> 2. Maybe the fonts or the indicating strings for "gap" and "overlap" could be made configurable?
> This is now the case. for example
>
> (setq org-agenda-clock-consistency-checks
>  '(:max-duration "10:00" :min-duration 0 :max-gap "0:05" :gap-ok-around ("4:00")
>    :default-face ((:background "Red")) :gap-face ((:background "green")))
>
> Cheers
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>> I would try to make these two look differently.
>>
>> Thanks again! Marvelous!
>> I will use the function daily or at least weekly!
>>
>> - Rainer
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> - Carsten
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