Redmine

+1
That's just what we need in my company.
The helpdesk guys simply need to insert how many days a task will take to be accomplished.

+1
This would help us organise tasks without resorting to MS Project

I would also like to see this included in the code base. I get nervous about applying a patch to my production system and coming to depend on the functionality and then have it break in future releases. Who makes the decision about whether or not this gets included and what version is gets targeted for?

I'd like to second Kevin's request - I'd like to see this included in 1.2.x and forward.

I tried to install this patch on 1.3.2 (Turnkey Linux - Redmine Appliance) and I get errors starting with....

root@redmine www/railsapp# patch p0 < use_time_in_issue_start_and_due_date.patch
patching file redmine-1.1.1_use_time_for_issues/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
Hunk #1 FAILED at 918.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED - saving rejects to file redmine-1.1.1_use_time_for_issues/app/helpers/application_helper.rb.rej
patching file redmine-1.1.1_use_time_for_issues/app/helpers/queries_helper.rb
Hunk #1 FAILED at 38.

My syntax for patching is from http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Patch

What am I doing wrong? Or does there need to be a newer patch?

Hello Toshi MARUYAMA,

could you please help me in getting it done.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Any update from anyone???

Thanks

+1
This is an important feature to have.

Hi,

Can anybody advise for this please !!!!!

Thanks in Advance

Dileep

+1
I wonder why it's still not there, since it's quite simple

Evzen Sindelar wrote:

I tried to rewrite this patch for redmine 2.3.
So I tested it and it's functional.
Try it too.

Edi 28.6.2013t: It has some other errors - calendar, gantt diagram, relations between issues ....
I'll fix it and also try it in 2.3.1.
Hope next week.

Hi, thank you for the patch.

Redmine throws this error

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `use_datetime_for_issues' ...

my environment

Redmine version                          2.3.1.stable
  Ruby version                             1.9.3 (i386-mingw32)
  Rails version                            3.2.13
  Environment                              production
  Database adapter                         Mysql2

Help me please :(

Dileep Kumar wrote:

i installed 2.3.1 then applied the pathh attached. but while creating issue redmine throws error. please find attached logs.

Hi, I solved.

1. apply patch.
2. run "rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production" in redmine directory.
3. test.

P.D: I am newbie in ruby on rails

Hi,
Thank you for the patch.
But I believe, it still needs refinement.
See following test case :

1. Create an issue with start and due Date and Times defined.
2. Go to issue update/edit screen
3. The selection of time hours and minutes shows time in UTC format and not in the user defined time zone.

Could you please rectify this issue as well.

Well the UTC problem is another edge case. This is currently not respected in many situations.

Hello! 5458-use_time_in_issue_start_and_due_date_2.3_stable_v3.diff has bug:

line 158 malformed patch

Please, check it!

Hey what do I need to do to get this into the next version of Redmine?

Alex Latchford wrote:

Hey what do I need to do to get this into the next version of Redmine?

Please add tests.

Can anyone also add time field of this feature to be used for an issue to become overdue
Thanks

Rupesh H wrote:

Can anyone also add time field of this feature to be used for an issue to become overdue
Thanks

I'm working on an SLA plugin for the work I need to do I'll try to clean it up afterwards and get it to a releasable state. This plugin has the ability to see if a ticket is overdue (well the semantics are that the SLA is in breach but the concept is the same), it also has the ability to set the due_date as a number of seconds after the start_due configurable by issue priority.

Cheers,
Alex

Hi Alex,
Thats great !
I shall be awaiting your update on this.
Rupesh

After applying the patch the calendar stops to work : it doesn't show neither the old tasks nor the new ones...even if the time-feature is disabled in the project´s proprieties.
A fix would be very appreciated,
Thanks!!!
m

Have noticed a bug that as we keep on updating an issue- (in fact I just clicked - update and submit without actually modifying anything). The due date is automatically decremented by 1 each time.
Can others also replicate this ?

Rupesh H wrote:

Have noticed a bug that as we keep on updating an issue- (in fact I just clicked - update and submit without actually modifying anything). The due date is automatically decremented by 1 each time.
Can others also replicate this ?

I thought I'd fixed that in the v6 of the patch, is that the one you're using?

Cheers,
Alex

Yes, I am using V6

Rupesh H wrote:

Yes, I am using V6

Cool thanks for confirming, I'll take another look at that again :)

Cheers,
Alex

Thanks Alex,
Since you are already working on SLA feature.
Is it possible to take into account that a status say - feedback - Pending for information is excluded from issues being considered for lapsed times. (That is any ticket with status say "Pending for information" should not become overdue till it is actually being worked on - "in progress" ).
Share your thoughts on this.

Rupesh

Rupesh H wrote:

Thanks Alex,
Since you are already working on SLA feature.
Is it possible to take into account that a status say - feedback - Pending for information is excluded from issues being considered for lapsed times. (That is any ticket with status say "Pending for information" should not become overdue till it is actually being worked on - "in progress" ).
Share your thoughts on this.

Rupesh

Yes that should be possible, we're adding in a "Ticket stops" piece which will show an issue in a "Paused" sla state if the ticket is stopped. This will then be factored into the overall SLA time period. Hopefully with a few changes to language strings that should suit you :)

Cheers,
Alex

Thank you Alex.
Now I am more excited and waiting for this plugin to be available sooner.
Could you please comment by what time can it be available.
Thank you in advance.

Rupesh H wrote:

Thank you Alex.
Now I am more excited and waiting for this plugin to be available sooner.
Could you please comment by what time can it be available.
Thank you in advance.

Hopefully within 2-3 weeks :)

pablo pablo wrote:>Thanks!!!
Fixed this by simply doing a to_date call if it's a date time, not sure if this is okay but good enough for my needs for now.

Does not work for me too..

Getting following trace in production.log

NoMethodError (undefined method `to_date' for nil:NilClass):
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `block in events='
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `block in events='
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `each'
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `each'
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `group_by'
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `group_by'
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `events='
lib/redmine/helpers/calendar.rb:51:in `events='

app/controllers/calendars_controller.rb:51:in `show'
  app/controllers/calendars_controller.rb:51:in `show'

Hi Rupesh,
This was caused by not having a time zone selected it appears, fixed now in this version (V7) of the patch.

Thanks Alex, it is fixed now.

Thanks it works now !

Time now takes into account required-ness in the workflow.

Alex,
It is not working it seems. Also making it read only failed.
Could you confirm if it works at your end.

Rupesh H wrote:

Time now takes into account required-ness in the workflow.

Alex,
It is not working it seems. Also making it read only failed.
Could you confirm if it works at your end.

Are you logged in as the admin account? They can perform all activities on the workflow (not sure why, this is default Redmine behaviour it would appear).

Cheers,
Alex

I had already tried both using admin as well as normal user but it does not work.

Hi,
Thanks it works for me.
But strangely, I noticed that if the user is admin this required-ness does not work but works for non-admin users with same role.

Thanks again Alex for your time.

Rupesh

Rupesh H wrote:

Hi,
Thanks it works for me.
But strangely, I noticed that if the user is admin this required-ness does not work but works for non-admin users with same role.

Thanks again Alex for your time.

Rupesh

That's a Redmine thing as far as I'm aware.

+1 for this feature

Since there seems to exist a well tested and working patch for this, why isn't this patch just added to the mainline releases?

//Johannes

+1

Does this patch contemplate that the time will be taken into account when sending reminder emails?

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineReminderEmails

The present version of patch does not take this into account / not working at my end.
The reminder emails for issues coming due in next few days are sent using the rake command as given in wiki page.

Hi Alex,
May I request you to let me know if there is any update on making this ("SLA") feature available as plugin?

TIA,
Rupesh

Seems bug is re-introduced about auto decrements of date on update

"Have noticed a bug that as we keep on updating an issue- (in fact I just clicked - update and
submit without actually modifying anything). The due date is automatically decremented by 1 each
time.
Can others also replicate this ?"

This happens when Start date is day 10/01/2014 at 20:00 HRs (8:00 PM)
and Due date time is at 12/01/2014 : 02:00 HRS ( 2:00 AM )
That is whenever there is a difference in AM and PM in start and due date times
Other wise it works OK

Any update for 2.4.2 for this patch?

Please make this as part of the baseline product and not as a patch.

Hi Developers of patch

Could you please help, I am getting 500 Internal Error !

It is giving error for start time (will it also for dates and Due time as well)

Seems there is an issue

at

+ @issue.start_date ||= DateTime.now if Setting.default_issue_start_date_to_creation_date?

in file

Index: app/controllers/issues_controller.rb

I am getting log as

NoMethodError (undefined method `div' for "16":String):
app/models/issue.rb:467:in `load_localised_time'
app/models/issue.rb:472:in `safe_attributes='
app/controllers/issues_controller.rb:410:in `build_new_issue_from_params'

where 16 is the minutes selected in Start time as seen in bellow log :

Started POST "/redmine/projects/itsupport/issues" for XYZ_IP_ADDRESS at 2014-02-18 19: 16 :40 +0530

Processing by IssuesController#create as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓",

"category_id"=>"26", "parent_issue_id"=>"", "start_date"=>"2014-02-18", "start_time"=> {"hour"=>"19", "minute"=>"16"},
"due_date"=>"", "due_time"=>{"hour"=>"", "minute"=>""},

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 127ms

It looks good! When will it be added officially?

Hi all,
I apply this patch without success, because i use redmine 2.5
However, i uninstall the patch but it still not working for existing issues.
New issue work fine.

Can someone help me :
1. to retrieve functionnal access to existing issues and project config ?
2. to adapt this patch for redmine 2.5 if it is possible ?

What i done (don't laugh, i'm newbie with ruby and redmine) :
1. Apply the patch, restart service and test -> ko for new issues
2. Remove the patch, restart service, and test -> ko for existing issues and project config
3. redownload redmine from svn, bundle install and test -> ko for existing issues and project config

The log errors for existing issues :
Started GET "/issues/31" for 172.16.11.157 at 2014-07-21 02:29:06 +0200
Processing by IssuesController#show as HTML
Parameters: {"id"=>"31"}
Current user: bertrand (id=3)
Rendered issues/_action_menu.html.erb (5.8ms)
Rendered issues/show.html.erb within layouts/base (81.9ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 250.8ms

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `use_datetime_for_issues' for #<Project:0x007fa2be0b5960>):
47: end
48:
49: unless @issue.disabled_core_fields.include?('start_date')
50: rows.right l(:field_start_date), (@project.use_datetime_for_issues ? format_time(@issue.start_date) : format_date(@issue.start_date)), :class => 'start-date'
51: end
52: unless @issue.disabled_core_fields.include?('due_date')
53: rows.right l(:field_due_date), (@project.use_datetime_for_issues ? format_time(@issue.due_date) : format_date(@issue.due_date)), :class => 'due-date'
app/views/issues/show.html.erb:50:in `block in app_views_issues_show_html_erb_191407975889242943_70168469341040'
app/helpers/issues_helper.rb:158:in `issue_fields_rows'
app/views/issues/show.html.erb:35:in `_app_views_issues_show_html_erb__191407975889242943_70168469341040'
app/controllers/issues_controller.rb:128:in `block (2 levels) in show'
app/controllers/issues_controller.rb:125:in `show'

The log errors for project config :
Started GET "/projects/curzay-evolution-telecom/settings" for 172.16.11.157 at 2014-07-21 02:54:13 +0200
Processing by ProjectsController#settings as HTML
Parameters: {"id"=>"curzay-evolution-telecom"}
Current user: bertrand (id=3)
Rendered projects/_form.html.erb (5.4ms)
Rendered projects/_edit.html.erb (9.4ms)
Rendered common/_tabs.html.erb (13.8ms)
Rendered projects/settings.html.erb within layouts/base (16.8ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 32.0ms

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `use_datetime_for_issues' for #<Project:0x007fa2bde48c40>):
11: <% end ></p>
12: <p><= f.text_field :homepage, :size => 60 ></p>
13: <p><= f.check_box :is_public ></p>
14: <p><= f.check_box :use_datetime_for_issues ></p>
15:
16: < unless @project.allowed_parents.compact.empty? >
17: <p><= label(:project, :parent_id, l(:field_parent)) ><= parent_project_select_tag(Herve Harster) %></p>
lib/redmine/views/labelled_form_builder.rb:34:in `check_box'
app/views/projects/_form.html.erb:14:in `_app_views_projects__form_html_erb___1903734829855056759_70168474322660'
app/views/projects/_edit.html.erb:2:in `block in app_views_projects_edit_html_erb___2186228600278077446_70168474253580'
app/helpers/application_helper.rb:1079:in `labelled_form_for'
app/views/projects/_edit.html.erb:1:in `_app_views_projects__edit_html_erb___2186228600278077446_70168474253580'
app/views/common/_tabs.html.erb:22:in `block in app_views_common_tabs_html_erb___1615134534336553850_70168474088860'
app/views/common/_tabs.html.erb:21:in `each'
app/views/common/_tabs.html.erb:21:in `_app_views_common__tabs_html_erb___1615134534336553850_70168474088860'
app/helpers/application_helper.rb:318:in `render_tabs'
app/views/projects/settings.html.erb:3:in `_app_views_projects_settings_html_erb__1934406188195170077_70168474045980'

Thanks in advance,
Bertrand

Apologizes for the previous post.
the patch remove command didn't work at first time. I rerun the uninstall patch and all works well now.

I search for make this patch compatible with redmine 2.5. If anyone can help me ?

Thanks,
Bertrand

+1

I have made a patch to have a DateTime CustomField (would be very usefull !)
But a DateTime picker is mandatory.

Jérome,

Thanks for correcting quickly. I'm new to redmine and also to ruby.
What do you mean where you say ?

a DateTime picker is mandatory

Can you tell me how to add this to my redmine.
Thanks in advance..

Bertrand FRUCHET wrote:

Can you tell me how to add this to my redmine.
Thanks in advance..

Hi Bertrand,
The Redmine jquery DatePicker does not include time. I have not searched for a compatible DateTimePicker.
I suppose that the developer that maintains the DatePicker (JPL ?) will be more efficient in this task.

Well, as far as i know, Redmine uses the jquery UI datepicker. This way you can extend the datepicker like the normal jquery ui datepicker with datetime.

Or maybe a switch to another jQuery based timepicker like this one: http://plugins.jquery.com/datetimepicker/
Which seems pretty okay for the task searched.

But on the other hand...
Modern browsers support a native date and a native datetime picker out of the box. This solution is just needed for oldschool browsers which don't know these features. They will gracefully fall back to a text input field which could be extended by the script.

Hope this helps?

Hi,

As Bertrand, I am trying to run this patch on 2.5.2. What must we change to get patch run on this version?

Thanks,
Carlos.

Hi,

I will wish to participate in the project by providing the option of adding hours in the fields customizable time.
I already made the local development and I would like to know the procedure for my code committer.

Can you help me?

Emmanuel Hidalgo wrote:

I already made the local development and I would like to know the procedure for my code committer.

Can you help me?

See Contribute and Submissions.

Thank you,

I sent the changes on github

https://github.com/redmine/redmine/pull/46

Hi Toshi,

unfortunately, but changes have not been integrated because i'm not a core developer -> I understand
the ticket has been rejected.

Do you know how I can do for these development'm considered?

Should I create a patch or rather a plugin ...

Thanks in advance,
Emmanuel

Emmanuel Hidalgo wrote:

Hi Toshi,

...

Why did not you read Contribute suggested in note-71 ?

Hi,
I read this page.
but I'm developing a core, while the more judicious to have been a plugin.
I'll see to the development of a plugin.
I'll let you know if I can make changes with a plugin.
Thanks

Emmanuel Hidalgo wrote:

Hi,
I read this page.

Really?

Contribute

Do not send a pull request on GitHub.

Why did you send pull request on GitHub?

Hi,
I saw that you had put the link in red.
My confusion was on the patch-term or item 4.
Being given that, I did not want to patch, I do not think be affected by this ban.
May be, would it make sense out of this term poitn 4, to put it at the root, the same level as "Basic process for Contributing code" ?

You have a link with documentation on the development of plug-in?

I found the documentation.

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Plugin_Tutorial

Helló

I would like to apply this patch in our redmine, but i can't. Is this work with 2.5.2.stable?

My system info is:
Redmine version 2.5.2.stable
Ruby version 1.9.3-p484 (2013-11-22) [i686-linux]
Rails version 3.2.19
Environment production
Database adapter Mysql2
SCM:
Subversion 1.8.8
Git 1.9.1

Thanks for helping

Emmanuel Hidalgo wrote:

Hi,

Here is a patch from 2.5.2

Cheers,
Emmanuel

Thanks a lot, its works! Any idea how could it work with ics export? i would like to use this custom field for specifying the calendar alarm time.

Cheers,
Norbi

Hi,

This patch only customFields modified.
If you want to use the hours in another context, you must do so by changing the code.

You have an example in application.js line 167-171.

Cheers,
Emmanuel

I've tried patch with 2.6.x and it fails

Whether it is planned to add this feature in the new 3.x version?

Roman Khaleev wrote:

Whether it is planned to add this feature in the new 3.x version?

Hi, I have 3.1.0 and version 5458-use_time_in_issue_start_and_due_date_2.3_stable_V9 (2).diff works for me fine.

In the part when I edit app/helpers/queries_helper.rb

I add this

+      when 'Time'
+      if ( column.name == :start_date or column.name == :due_date ) and
+        ( !issue.project.use_datetime_for_issues or value.strftime('%H%M')=='0000' )
+        format_date(value)
+      else
+        format_time(value)
+      end
+     when 'Date'
+      format_date(value)

      when 'Fixnum'

after add patch, you must use command RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate - this solve problems posted from Bertrand FRUCHET

Sorry for my bad english

+1 can it be planned for 3.2 or 4.0 release?

That's great.
But how I can add hours in projects issues? I didn't found time entries in issues new/edit pages.

It's been 6 years, how can it be a much needed and easy feature like this hasn't made it into a stable release yet?
Instead Contributors prefer newbie bashing... Open Source projects with developers and an attitude like this always make me sad.

Sergey Karpushin wrote:

Hi All.
Here is modified patch for 3.2.0 (5458-use_time_in_issue_start_and_due_date_2.3_stable_V9_3.diff)
there are many offsets when apply it, but all Hunk succeeded.

I find error.

add_start_and_due_time method is not found

Sergey Karpushin wrote:

Hi All.
Here is modified patch for 3.2.0 (5458-use_time_in_issue_start_and_due_date_2.3_stable_V9_3.diff)
there are many offsets when apply it, but all Hunk succeeded.

And another problem - where i could set start or due time? there are only Date picker in Redmine interface

+1

Hi guys,
I have a Bitnami Redmine 3.3.x stable and I need to undestand step by ste how should I have to apply these "diff" files!...could you please help me?

Thanks in advance
Hernan

We really need this feature. Setting up the time(along with dates) for deadlines is crucial to us. Hope this gets integrated in redmine soon.

I have tried this patch - 5458-use_time_in_issue_start_and_due_date_2.3_stable_V9_3.diff
I second what Roman and Victor said earlier. DateTimepicker doesn't show up in UI. This is probably what Jérôme & Daniel mentioned earlier in the thread. Can anyone point me how to include this in UI? I think I have to play around with jQuery\JavaScript files - if anyone has instructions already, that will be useful. Thanks.

For what it's worth, I gave up on these patches and I am using following plugin - https://github.com/nanego/redmine_datetime_custom_field/issues
It only works with custom fields but that solves many of my issues and I don't have to worry about patches. I humbly request to consider time(at least for due date) in future. Most of redmine alternatives(Trello etc.) use it. Thank you.

Hi, is there a solution for this already or will it be implemented in core sometime?

+1 for this.

I propose ability to configure in settings if someone wants to display time or just date...

Preferably, per project. Sometimes time is important, sometimes not...

Can we add Actual Date of Completion of issue? Keeping Due Date unchanged so that we can track delay by taking the difference between due date and actual date of completion.

Does patch works on Redmine 4.1.1.?

I also really need this feature, to have minute-resolution for start/end date. This is to use redmine for planning tasks which can start/stop with minute specification.

I have tried reading this thread, but I'm not really clear on the status. The seems to be external plugin(s), but I need this to work with the core start/due date fields. Is there any (partial) patch in this direction? I am willing to contribute time and code if needed.

I REALLY need this feature.
Actually, there are many things that need to be managed in progress by the minute.
I think this is a feature that many people need.
I've never used Ruby on Rails, but if there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Can we get this to become candidate for future release?

This feature is wanted by the many...

To quote my thoughts about this feature from RE: bounties, crowdfunding: how to fund things in Redmine?:

This is one of the areas which would cause a lot of follow-up edge-cases to be resolved, e.g:

• to make preceded/follow relations time aware
• to make the reporting time aware
• add times to other areas (such as versions)
• adjust the Gantt chart to meaningfully display inter-day time-frames on tasks and versions
• how to handle moving issues between projects
• investigate how this changes the project work within Redmine and apply the necessary changes to support this
• investigate how this affects the software interfaces and possibly breaking plugins
• ...

As such, this is a prime example of a feature which looks simple and might even have a (rather) simple patch to implement a first working change. But there is a lot of follow-up work to be done here which would require a huge amount of work from the maintainers and would likely frustrate many users because of "unfinished" features.

And with that being said, I personally believe that this feature doesn't even add much value anyway. While some people believe they want to plan their tasks to the very minute, I think this is an anti-pattern and does not improve the project planing or ability to resolve tasks. Instead, it just adds another time-sink for micro-managing and running-behind-reality which doesn't improve real-world projects. Instead, it's generally a much better idea to have a list of tasks planned for the day (or even just upcoming days) and work on those. The specific time to solve those often doesn't matter or can't even be accurately planned.

In #5458, the original motivation was to validate service-level agreements which do often require a response within certain time frames. However, I believe this could be solved differently, e.g. by adding some rules to alert if an issue is not closed or resolved within a certain timeframe, or if there was a reply of some sort. With SLAs, an important aspect would be the reporting (i.e. which of the specific SLA rules were met, and which were not), as well as features for alerting and escalation, both of which is not attempted by the patches in #5458 at all.

Thus, I believe #5458 solves the wrong problem in a way which adds a lot of complexity to Redmine and project managers without providing meaningful benefits to warrant this complexity. The idea to provide some support to handle SLAs in Redmine should be solved differently in my opinion.

I'm in support of this change for the following reasons:

Time zones:
Many organizations now span multiple time zones. If a deadline is on Friday morning in Australia then somebody working on it in the USA needs to see it is really Thursday afternoon in their timezone. Even in the USA, if a deadline is 10am on the east coast then it is before people start work on the west coast.

Sorting tasks due at different times in the day:
If you are an accountant for a UK company, maybe you have to complete your EUR payment authorizations before 1pm and your USD payment authorizations before 3pm. If each payment is one task, it would be helpful to sort the tasks by time.

Some projects really do have an hour:minute deadline:
If your project involves submitting a bid for a government construction project, there may be some rule that says all bids have to be submitted before 2pm.

Coordination with other technologies:
iCalendar (VTODO) and RSS feeds all require full datetime precision and time zone.

Consistency with other fields in Redmine:
For example, comment fields like this record the exact date and time when a comment was posted. But it is not clear if the comment was entered before or after a deadline.

In summary, I think the international nature of businesses and projects is incredibly significant now. There are a whole class of businesses who will not use Redmine because of this one feature, even if they like everything else about Redmine.

+1
As a developer, I didn't notice this was needed until I tried sitting down with my partner to use Redmine to schedule a meeting. The last paragraph by Daniel Pocock above says it all, really. Please put this one on the roadmap for v7.