Feature #1561: Totals for estimated/spent time and numeric custom fields on the issue list - Redmine

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Feature #1561

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Totals for estimated/spent time and numeric custom fields on the issue list

Added by Ewan Makepeace over 17 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Jean-Philippe Lang

Category:

Issues

Target version:

3.2.0

Resolution:

Fixed

Description

I am constantly juggling tasks to try and assign each developer approximately the correct number of tasks for the months sprint, counting up how many tasks are outstanding for the next release and counting how many man days have been completed by each developer for bonus purposes. In redmine this involves manually adding up the estimated time values for each task in a list, which gets tedious and error prone.
I would like to request a total row on issues lists when estimated time column is shown.
Ideally I would also like a subtotal for each value in the sorted column (typically sorted by assigned to, so a subtotal per developer, but could be anything).
I suspect I am in a minority with this request but as the number of issues at hand increases I really dont need to be squinting at the screen adding up numbers in my head...

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timeplan.png (133 KB) timeplan.png	Timeplan plugin 0.0.1	Michael Pirogov, 2008-07-08 16:14
time-breakdown.PNG (33.7 KB) time-breakdown.PNG	Screen shot for time metrics breakdown	Anna Labinskaya, 2008-07-21 19:08
Picture_1.jpg (28.2 KB) Picture_1.jpg		Ewan Makepeace, 2008-12-03 03:47
Screenshot_10.jpg (23.2 KB) Screenshot_10.jpg		Ewan Makepeace, 2009-01-19 06:42
Screenshot_11.jpg (88.1 KB) Screenshot_11.jpg		Ewan Makepeace, 2009-01-19 06:48
totals.png (44.1 KB) totals.png		Jean-Philippe Lang, 2015-10-09 11:09

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Patch #2268: Patch to show Total Estimated Time at the bottom of each list of issues.	Closed		2008-12-03	Actions
Related to Redmine - Patch #4776: Totals for Estimated Time	Closed		2010-02-09	Actions
Related to Redmine - Feature #6571: Totalise numeric columns	Closed		2010-10-05	Actions
Related to Redmine - Feature #8559: Sum columns in reports	Closed		2011-06-07	Actions
Related to Redmine - Feature #21413: Totals for custom field with different field format	Closed	Jean-Philippe Lang		Actions
Related to Redmine - Feature #21390: Adjust total values for numeric columns layout to match columns	New			Actions
Has duplicate Redmine - Feature #13935: Add cumulative affected time to issue list view	Closed			Actions
Has duplicate Redmine - Feature #14384: Add column "spent time" on list issues	Closed			Actions
Has duplicate Redmine - Feature #18263: Group in issue list should provide no. of estimated time vs spent time besides just providing total issues	Closed			Actions
Has duplicate Redmine - Feature #5311: Sums in the groupped task report	Closed		2010-04-14	Actions

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Updated by Boudewijn van Liempd over 17 years ago

I would also like to see a sum of the estimated time on certain places. I would also like to use it for planning purposes, although in a slightly different way. We do not use redmine solely for software projects but also to plan issues where we know upfront how many hours it is going to take.

It would be nice to have also in the gantt chart, e.g. see the total estimated hours per day (using the starting day to show the number).

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Updated by Anna Labinskaya over 17 years ago

We also need an aggregated report on estimated time. Maybe this could be built by extending the report on Spent time? Or as a separate report -- it would be helpful too.

BTW, it would also be useful to see a number of issues not yet estimated. It could be a link to a list of such issues.

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Updated by Michael Pirogov over 17 years ago

File timeplan.png timeplan.png added

Hi there :-)

I'm working on plugin, which maybe would get your attention.

It's based on timesheet plugin (by E. Devis), but it's AJAX powered and have some more features against estimated time tracking.

The goal is to get a helper for a visual office-planning.

Sorry, I don't have much time on it, so it's not fully translated for now, no gantted and has some lags/bugs/craps and so on...

But you can take a look on a screenshot, I've attached.

Hope, it'll be done ASAP.

Basic feature is a split hours by days. If there's no estimated time specified, then fulltime is counted (6 hours per day ;-) ).

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Updated by Anna Labinskaya over 17 years ago

Hi Michael!

Thanks for the screenshot. Looks promising to me.

Actually we are also interested in a breakdown of remaining time (which is a sum of estimates minus spent time for all non-closed tickets) by Category, developer, etc. The % Done bar shown on your screenshot isn't quite an indication (to us) of the remaining time (just with our process we are used to) as the % Done field is set manually rather then gets calculated automatically based on estimated and spent time for an issue.

Understand that it's a question of preferences/selected process -- how to record progress. What's currently implemented in Redmine is recording progress by manually setting the % Done. And the spent time logging/reporting is sort of additional. We in our case are more for updating the estimate field instead -- when we see that the remaining time shown in our planning tool isn't sufficient to complete the task. Just we are used to the XPlanner's model for time metrics :-)

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Updated by Eric Davis over 17 years ago

Michael Pirogov wrote:

I'm working on plugin, which maybe would get your attention.

It's based on timesheet plugin (by E. Devis), but it's AJAX powered and have some more features against estimated time tracking.

Micheal, do you have a public code repository for this plugin? I could lend a development hand or two.

Anna Labinskaya wrote:

Actually we are also interested in a breakdown of remaining time (which is a sum of estimates minus spent time for all non-closed tickets) by Category, developer, etc.

I've been wanting to build a plugin that would show estimate progress for a project. It would use progress bars and would "fill up" as time is spent towards an estimate. I think it should also change colors from green to yellow to red as the time spent reaches and surpasses an estimate.

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Updated by Anna Labinskaya over 17 years ago

File time-breakdown.PNG time-breakdown.PNG added

Eric Davis wrote:

I've been wanting to build a plugin that would show estimate progress for a project. It would use progress bars and would "fill up" as time is spent towards an estimate. I think it should also change colors from green to yellow to red as the time spent reaches and surpasses an estimate.

Guys, take a look at our version (implemented by Artem Vasiliev, he's going to submit a patch soon today): time-breakdown.PNG

It's an extension to the existing Version (milestone) screen and shows aggregate time metrics in addition to the numbers of issues. Remaining time is Estimated minus Spent for all open issues.

Eric, changing colors would be nice.

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Updated by Artem Vasiliev over 17 years ago

Anna Labinskaya wrote:

Guys, take a look at our version (implemented by Artem Vasiliev, he's going to submit a patch soon today): time-breakdown.PNG

Here it is: #1671
Please take a look :)

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Updated by Ewan Makepeace over 17 years ago

We ended up coding a simple total for estimated time of visible issues (see attached). If there is interest will upload as a patch.

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Updated by Ewan Makepeace over 17 years ago

File Picture_1.jpg Picture_1.jpg added

Ewan Makepeace wrote:

We ended up coding a simple total for estimated time of visible issues (see attached). If there is interest will upload as a patch.

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Updated by Ewan Makepeace over 17 years ago

Patch filed here: #2268

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Updated by Ewan Makepeace about 17 years ago

File Screenshot_10.jpg Screenshot_10.jpg added

We are now patching the issue summary report to show both issue count and total estimated time. If you look at the attached screenshot you will see how one this appears - it is very useful to quickly see where effort should be focussed, where issue count is less useful.

If others are interested will post this is a patch.

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Updated by Ewan Makepeace about 17 years ago

File Screenshot_11.jpg Screenshot_11.jpg added

Sorry - wrong screenshot!

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Updated by Vladimir Oleynik about 17 years ago

Michael Pirogov wrote:

I'm working on plugin, which maybe would get your attention.

Michael, have you finished that timeplan plugin?
the screen mockup you uploaded is pretty nice, but failed to find any plugin/patch to get such screen. (I don't need it translated).

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Updated by Mischa The Evil over 14 years ago

As mentioned the first time by Tony Marschall in #8559 note-4, there exists a plugin which provides (parts of) this feature (along with some others): Redmine spent time column. It's written by Jan Schulz-Hofen of plan.io.

I've started working on some improvements to make it better suitable for this issue in my fork of it:
https://github.com/MischaTheEvil/redmine_spent_time_column

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#15

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago

Category changed from UI to Issues
Assignee set to Jean-Philippe Lang
Target version set to 3.2.0

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#16

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago

r14642 makes it possible to display totals for estimated hours, spent hours and any numeric custom field.
Totals that are displayed by default can be configured in the application settings.

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Updated by Sebastian Paluch over 10 years ago

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

r14642 makes it possible to display totals for estimated hours, spent hours and any numeric custom field.
Totals that are displayed by default can be configured in the application settings.

That is awesome! Will it work also for grouped queries? Will it show totals for each group and for entire query?

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Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago

Will it show totals for each group

Not implemented yet but it should be done soon.

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Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago

File totals.png totals.png added

Totals for groups are now added, including in the PDF export as well. Here is the final result:

There's still an issue with queries grouped by projects because of this: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/21922

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Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago

Subject changed from Please provide totals for the estimated time column to Totals for estimated/spent time and numeric custom fields on the issue list
Status changed from New to Closed
Resolution set to Fixed

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

There's still an issue with queries grouped by projects because of this: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/21922

Workaround applied in r14667.

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#21

Updated by Sebastian Paluch over 10 years ago

The feature is very, very useful but after working with it for a while it seems that it would be more practical if total values would show up under right columns instead single summary line. It would be much more readable. I have added #21390 to track it separately.

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