Jim,<br><br>RT has a tool called "My Day" and it adds the value entered to <b>TimeWorked</b>. It lists all "new" and "open" tickets "owned" by the user. That works for us because we don't let anyone <i>modify</i> a Ticket unless they are the owner. Perhaps a procedure where an "owner" keeps adding their "time worked" until they are done and then they trigger a notice to the team or whoever might do the next step and then that person/someone on team can "Steal" it or alternatively, the <i>previous</i> owner can "give" it to the <i>next owner</i> and then they do their work, also using "My Day" to enter their time. The Problem would be getting one persons time separated from another. Perhaps a scrip that put one owners time in a CF when triggered by changing owners. That same scrip could <i>zero out</i> "Time Worked". Then when the ticket is "resolved" (or whatever the next step is), another scrip tally's up the time in each CF "Time by Owner" and <i>re-sets</i> the <b>TimeWorked</b> for a total time.<br>
<br>Just a thought. Hope it helps.<br><br>Kenn<br>LBNL<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jim Tambling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jim.Tambling@datatote.co.uk">Jim.Tambling@datatote.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Kenn,<br>
<br>
I might not have explained it properly. I want a field that the user can<br>
fill in with how much time they worked on that portion of the ticket, I<br>
am trusting them to enter the correct data. The TimeWorked field is very<br>
easy to overwrite so I want a per-post entry with a total displayed in<br>
the ticket summary. Maybe it is possible to do something like that? The<br>
'time worked' value would ideally be a mandatory field in each post.<br>
<br>
Regards, Jim<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Subject: Re: [rt-users] MAndatory CF per post<br>
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Jim,<br>
<br>
How would RT know how much time that was? If the user is working on the<br>
program or problem or design or just thinking about the problem, he<br>
won't be<br>
in RT hitting "enter" for every minute he is thinking on a ticket and<br>
there<br>
is no time clock going off to determine how much time the person is<br>
spending<br>
doing that task. RT will only know of the time the guy signs on, starts<br>
a<br>
transaction and completes a transaction. You could design a time clock<br>
for a<br>
ticket and have procedures that require (I don't know how you would<br>
*monitor<br>
* anyone following such procedure) a person enter a "check-in" time for<br>
a<br>
ticket and then a "check-out" time. But that just may be trying to put<br>
too<br>
fine a granularity on the issue. Somewhere down the line, you have to<br>
just<br>
trust the guy when he says he worked 20 hours on something. Just my<br>
opinion,<br>
of course.<br>
<br>
Kenn<br>
LBNL<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Jim Tambling<br>
<<a href="mailto:Jim.Tambling@datatote.co.uk">Jim.Tambling@datatote.co.uk</a>>wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Is there a way to enter CF values in each individual post made to a<br>
ticket?<br>
> What I am trying to achieve is a way of logging how much time an<br>
engineer<br>
> spends working on each part of a request. The time worked field is no<br>
good<br>
> to us as we want something that is updated dynamically from each post,<br>
so<br>
> the managers can view the total time worked on a ticket and the time<br>
worked<br>
> on each individual post. Is this at all possible?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Regards, Jim<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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