Re: Bug: ox-taskjuggler :effort: property incorrectly converted when in minutes

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
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>> That mostly makes sense. Org's not case-sensitive, correct?
>
> Correct.
>
>> I was looking at the [granted, outdated] taskjuggler documentation and
>> it features estimates in days (i.e. 10d): -
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html
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>> Is this recent (as in post-writing of that worg page)?
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> I cannot remember.
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>> Or are there other formats that could be accepted?
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> Not at the moment, since ox-taskjuggler.el hardcodes
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>   (org-duration-string-to-minutes effort)
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>> It's unfortunate that org and taskjuggler overlap on this, as ideally
>> one could pass any tj attribute as a property and it'd "do the right
>> thing." I see why the issue exists now.
>>
>> So if I want to estimate a task taking 10 days, I need to input 80:00?
>
> For now yes.
>
> The code could be improved, however. I.e, if effort matches
>
>   "\\`[0-9]+:[0-5][0-9]\\'"
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> use `org-duration-string-to-minutes', otherwise insert it as-is.

Thanks for the explanation. I pretty much only use duration, which has
never had an issue. As a fluke I used effort and noticed the big
difference. Thanks for illuminating the situation!


John

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> Regards,