[rt-users] Time fields in days

[Joosep]

Hi!

Thanks for the info Kenneth i will look into it further.

Joosep

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Kenneth Crocker <kfcrocker at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Joosep,
>
> I would think the DB changes ARE necessary. If you don't define the field
> with 3 decimal positions, then it would always round up or down and you'd
> gain/lose a lot of time. We didn't like the option of hours or minutes, so I
> removed the top-down choice. Since we offered hours in the form of .125
> days, we felt that should be sufficient. We didn't know of ANYONE in our
> organization that would project time estimates in hours or minutes. Most
> projects involve many, many man-days.
>
> Anyway, that was our thinking.
>
> Kenn
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Joosep <joosepm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply Kenneth,
>>
>> Is the database modification also necessary in order it to work, or should
>> it work with just the modifications in the file local/html/Elements/SelectTimeUnits
>> ?
>>
>> Implementing the code from that thread so far only seem to give the
>> possibility to select days from the dropdown menu when using for example
>> "time estimated" field in the ticket basics, but seem to lack the math. At
>> least in RT 3.8.10. When inserting some value in hours, RT automatically
>> converts the inserted value into minutes(for example inserting 2 hours
>> results after save 120 minutes). When inserting for example 5 hours, after
>> the save, it results in 5 minutes.
>> I'm not very familiar with perl, but it seems that these rows should be
>> responsible for the math:
>> > % my $selected = 'minutes';
>> > % $selected = 'hours' if $minutes > 60;
>> > % $selected = 'days' if $minutes > 480;
>>
>> But they don't seem to do it. Maybe the math has moved since then or i'm
>> doing something wrong.
>> I would be grateful for any pointers and hints where to look.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Joosep
>>
>>
>
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