Little Progress Bar - Calculation Basis?

[joshuawerling]

Andrey,

I am trying out the RC and I like the idea of the little progress bar
in the outline view. Now I have two questions regarding its use:

- Can I make it visible in the To-Do-View?
- What is it based on? I do not seem to be able to get to 100%
completion. Let's say I add four (4) tasks under a parent (folder)
project. If I tick off one after the other, I would expect the
progress bar to indicate that I am making progress in increments of
1/4 until I reach 100% completion with ticking off the fourth and last
task. But this is not so. There always seems to be one last step
missing, so in this case the progress bar seems to indicate progress
by 1/5 although there are only four (4) tasks assigned to this project
(folder). This strikes me as wrong. Am I missing something?

Kind regards,

Joshua

[pottster]

Re: your second question on the progress bar

I think this refers back to recent discussions on auto-completion of a
parent task when all sub tasks have been completed. Some of it may
come down to personal preference i.e. auto completion for convenience
versus a final "manual sign off" of the parent task. The advantage of
the latter is that sometimes completion of the parent task might
require additional subtasks which have been unforeseen or due to
changed circumstances and this is an opportunity to review. Perhaps
this preference could be a program option.

In 3.0 it appears that completion in the progress bar can only be
acheived by changing the folder (parent task) back to a task and
completing it.

Regards,
Ken

On May 23, 11:34 am, joshuawerling <joshuawerl...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

[Andrey]

> - Can I make it visible in the To-Do-View?

The little progress bar is only visible for projects. If your project
is in To-Do then you will see the bar.

- What is it based on? I do not seem to be able to get to 100%

The progress is calculated considering Effort for each subtask and the
project itself. So you need either complete the project itself or set
effort for the project to 0 to have 100% completion.

A.

On May 23, 1:34 pm, joshuawerling <joshuawerl...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

[Andrey]

> In 3.0 it appears that completion in the progress bar can only be
> acheived by changing the folder (parent task) back to a task and
> completing it.

... or set effort for the folder to 0 so that it is not considered in
completion % calculation.

A.

[joshua.w]

Ken,

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my post! Now we
know there's a more straight-forward way to get this done. :-)

[joshua.w]

Andrey,

Thank you very much for getting back to me on this!

- View in To-Do view
-- I have them visible, but only as headings (grouping my tasks), and
I guess I would have to have them visible as "tasks" to be able to see
the progress bar. Correct?
- Completion
-- Thank you, this makes sense and is rather easy to do. Maybe you
could consider an option to make this default (folder = 0 effort) in
future versions, which would make things even easier.

Kind regards,

Joshua

[Andrey]

> I guess I would have to have them visible as "tasks" to be able to see
> the progress bar. Correct?

Yes

> -- Thank you, this makes sense and is rather easy to do. Maybe you
> could consider an option to make this default (folder = 0 effort) in
> future versions, which would make things even easier.

I would not say it would be easier :) I would have to explain to
people why the effort reset to 0 etc..


A.

[joshua.w]

Andrey,

> I would not say it would be easier :) I would have to explain to
> people why the effort reset to 0 etc..

What I meant was that there could be an option to choose whether you
want it to behave this way or the other way. So I could choose "0" as
default, and someone else could choose it to be as it is now.

Kind regards,

Joshua