Re: Display missing/overlapping clock ranges

["Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Carsten and all,

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 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....)

First, I would choose "min-gap". But, then, if we look carefully, what you
describe are conditions for being reported:

- max duration allowed; if not, report it
- min duration allowed; if not, report it
- max gap allowed; if not, report it
- ...

So, in this case, "max" makes more sense than "min".

> 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.

Great feature!  Missed it for long...

> Also, it is not really useful to use this on a filtered agenda view,
> but testing of this would be appreciated as well.

Works perfect.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
2011-04-27 Wed ______________________________________________________
               8:00...... 
  Work:        9:08- 9:27 Clocked:   (0:19) TODO Organize work
  Work:        9:27-11:42 Clocked:   (2:15) TODO Read email and news
              10:00...... 
  Work:       11:42-12:22 Clocked:   (0:40) TODO Organize work
              12:00...... 
 No end time                               
  Work:       13:29...... Clocked:   (-) TODO Organize work
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Two remarks:

- I would add another space in front of both strings ("No end time" and "Time
  gap"), as they are well highlighted with the fonts customs

- I think I would put "No end time" after the task line, not before.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban