Re: Column View with Effort Summing in Days

[Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm on 8.2.10 and want to upgrade to the latest version in ELPA for est+
>> views, but I noticed that summation with {:} in column view does not
>> give output in days.  I've poked around the code a bit and it doesn't
>> seem to me like a configuration change.
>>
>> Is there any way to get effort estimates printed in days (where number
>> of days is based on org-effort-durations?
>>
>> The motivation for this is I'm planning a large project where the summed
>> estimates are in days and 180 hours is more difficult to grasp than 22.5
>> days.
>
> You can control the output with `org-time-clocksum-format' (which should
> be named differently BTW). See also `org-time-clocksum-use-fractional'
> and `org-time-clocksum-fractional-format'.

From what I can tell, those apply to CLOCKSUM but in this case I'm using
{:} for effort.  Do they still apply there?  I can see that CLOCKSUM
already uses days in the format but I'm not seeing it on the output for
Effort sums.  Am I misunderstanding your response?


>
> Regards,