Re: 'Work'-field for tasks keep increasing...

ons 2003-04-23 klockan 11.38 skrev Benjamin BAYART:
> Le Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:15:46AM +0200, Richard Hult:
> > > 
> > > It should perhaps be reported as a bug...
> > 
> > In some places we just hardcode a day to be 8 hours for now, which is
> > clearly wrong. We just need to decide what the definition of "day"
> > should be. IMO, we should just have one per-project setting for this,
> > because having day mean different things for different resources (based
> > on their calendar) will be very confusing. Any ideas/comments on how to
> > handle this?
> 
> I agree with you on this point. The work field should be base on the
> day definition of the project. I see two different ways to do it:
> - or you add a parameter to the project definition (thus, in the project
>   dialog) which is the hour/day ratio
> - or you use the definition of the "Working day" in the project's
>   calendar.
> 
> The second one is more clean in the object-oriented approach. The first
> one is the easier to understand for the user but can be confusing...

This is the way we were going to do it (and it is actually used in some
places if I remember correctly). The problem with this approach is that
the working day can be overridden in a calendar and so one resource will
get another hour/day ratio than another that uses a different calendar.

Richard

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