Re: What's the use of Column View?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> "Egli Christian (KIRO 41)" <christian.egli@credit-suisse.com> writes:
>
>> There you go! A quick and simple way to get an overview. The power  
>> of column view stems from the fact that it lets you quickly and  
>> simply
>> define hierarchical structures and then combine them with a tabular  
>> overview.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>
> Thanks Christian!  I haven't played with column view much yet but this
> is a great application I can use immediately.
>
> Since you're posting estimated times on your tasks I'm wondering if
> there's a way to get the clocked summary times for each task in the
> column view table as well (same values as C-c C-x C-d display).
>
> I'd _love_ to see my estimate task times and actual times side by side
> in the column view per task.  That will help me tune my estimates much
> faster.
>
> This would be very useful for me to check how my estimates are doing
> compared to actual time spent on tasks.  Is there some magical
> incantation to do this?  :)

In 5.19 you will be able to use a special read-only column CLOCKSUM that
will contain the total time spent in a subtree.

- Carsten