Allocate estimated hours for specific days rather than spread evenly across the duration of the task
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Geneen Grazioli
If I have a task that is a week long, I want to be able to estimate x amount of hours for Monday, x amount for Tuesday, etc., rather than it spreading the hours evenly across the entire week. There are certain projects that might be higher priority, so I want them to be able to spend more hours on certain days than others.
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Johann Swart
This is a great feature but there is an issue in the workflow. It works fine if it is a new action that I'm planning. However, if I didn't get done on that one day, and need to add another day to the task, it doesn't work well.
For example, if I have 8 hours estimated on 1 day. I don't get done, so I change the date to stretch over 2 days, intending to add a couple more estimated hours to the next day. But when I do that, it automatically splits between all the days and I lose all my previous estimated times.
If editing an existing action, when I click the calendar, the times that were already assigned should remain unchanged, allowing me the option to manually add or change the days and times, but not automatically change them all back to the default of even split so I have to manually edit all the days again not just the one day I was going to add.
John Furneaux
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Kelly Angus
John Furneaux: Hi there :) I saw this come through on Hive but now I can't find it in the Changelog and it doesn't appear to be working. Is this back in development?
John Furneaux
Kelly Angus: Thanks Kelly, just checking on this for you. 👍
CJ Jordan
Kelly Angus: Hi Kelly!
If you add a date range to an action card (start and end dates), then you will see a calendar icon next to the time estimate that will allow you to customize the distribution of time.
We are currently only supporting this for actions cards with defined date ranges, as supporting cards without this ended up being more complex, but we are certainly open to adding that in the future.
See the attached screenshots and let me know if you have any additional questions :-)
CJ Jordan
Kelly Angus: apologies - an additional detail here, we actually currently are resolving an issue with this, so turned this off temporarily for all workspaces, but will be turning it back on very soon! If all goes well, this should be back on tomorrow :-)
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Kelly Angus
CJ Jordan: HI CJ, sounds good! I don't think it's turned on just yet but will keep an eye out for it
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Johann Swart
John Furneaux: This is a great feature but there is an issue in the workflow. It works fine if it is a new action that I'm planning. However, if I didn't get done on that one day, and need to add another day to the task, it doesn't work well.
For example, if I have 8 hours estimated on 1 day. I don't get done, so I change the date to stretch over 2 days, intending to add a couple more estimated hours to the next day. But when I do that, it automatically splits between all the days and I lose all my previous estimated times.
If editing an existing action, when I click the calendar, the times that were already assigned should remain unchanged, allowing me the option to manually add or change the days and times, but not automatically change them all back to the default of even split so I have to manually edit all the days again not just the one day I was going to add.
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Jessie Boone
John Furneaux
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Jessie Boone
John Furneaux: Really looking forward to this feature! Any updates?
John Furneaux
Jessie Boone: I'll defer to Jeremy Chase to update us here.
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Mike Crabtree
@Geneen Grazioli - and also plan the start/finish time? - ie. book a 2 hour slot 10am-12pm.... see below...
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Mike Crabtree
i'd also suggest this feature allows scheduling the planned effort to happen at a certain time, ie. plan a 2hr action to start at 10am and finish at 12pm, this would allow the teams requesting work to see what's happening when, and who's working on what & when, and what slots are available, if a time slot is booked the teams can negotiate between themselves earlier in the process, rather than throwing over the wall into the lap of the resource manager and expecting them to resolve.... Kelly Angus
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Albert Vilar
Agree in all previous comments. Necessary feature to have good use of the resourcing. I want to have the chance to put X hours one day and Y hours one week later in the same task, without any even distribution.
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Johann Swart
This is so necessary! When we start a task on one day, then we work on something else the next day, then back on this task the third day, there is no way to allocate or schedule the time without creating multiple subactions.
Also what if you have a project that is 1.5 days in length. You finish another task by noon on Monday. Then you would start on the new task, work on it the rest of Monday and all day Tuesday. But you can't allocate 4 hours on Monday and 8 hours on Tuesday, you have to allocate 6 hours both days.
Resourcing and scheduling is very difficult without this feature. Even better would be to have an hourly view like Outlook Calendar where you can schedule and see times in chronological order rather than just time allotments.
Andrew Naisawald
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Include Estimated Date in the Time-Tracking Export
Andrew Naisawald
Currently, we exporting the Time-Tracking page the date of the 'tracked' (read: actual) time recorded is included in the export. However, the date of the estimated time or the date of the action card with the estimated time is not included in the export.
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