[taskjuggler-users] timesheet vs freeze
Rene Vergara
small personal project.
I'd like to track actual progress versus the plan, so I followed the
manual in using --freeze to obtain the two files. I found that the
yourproject-header.tji file works, but the yourproject-bookings file
is created with a .tjp extension, not a .tji
I manually changed the extension to .tji and tried to run TJ3 on the
file with the includes and I get an error saying that there is an
unexpected 'project' token:
Error: Unexpected token 'project' found. Expecting one of :eof
I've tried placing the include statement in different places on the
main project file and I still get the same error.
Should I just use timesheets?
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RAV
Chris Schlaeger
> Hello. I have been using TJ2 so far and I am trying out TJ3 for a
> small personal project.
> I'd like to track actual progress versus the plan, so I followed the
> manual in using --freeze to obtain the two files. I found that the
> yourproject-header.tji file works, but the yourproject-bookings file
> is created with a .tjp extension, not a .tji
I can't see how the -booking file could end up with a .tjp extension.
Can you please provide an example project and the exact command line
you use to run tj3?
Thanks,
Chris
Rene Vergara
http://www.taskjuggler.org/tj3/examples/ProjectTemplate/template.tjp
I run TJ3 on this file, without altering it:
tj3 --freeze template.tjp
This produces a template-bookings.tjp file.
When I made my original post, I was trying to get acquainted with the
new version, playing with the template to test out the tracking. I couldn't
get it to work but I kept working on my project for planning purposes.
Today, I tried the --freeze on my project file and it worked with no
issues and the imports also worked. Maybe it's something about the
template?
About timesheets, do they provide a way to enter the bookings? I very
interested in the status reporting in the timesheets.
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Chris Schlaeger
> I downloaded the template file located at:
> http://www.taskjuggler.org/tj3/examples/ProjectTemplate/template.tjp
>
> I run TJ3 on this file, without altering it:
> tj3 --freeze template.tjp
>
> This produces a template-bookings.tjp file.
Ok, found it. There was an error ("no trackingscenario defined") but
tj3 did not abort properly. I've fixed that now. If you want to use
--freeze, you need to tell TJ which scenario should be used for
tracking the actual progress.
I've fixed tj3 now to properly abort on this condition.
> About timesheets, do they provide a way to enter the bookings? I very
> interested in the status reporting in the timesheets.
No, they only provide a summary of the completed work, but not a
breakdown of the actual working intervals. However, you can use the
data in the timesheets to quickly adjust the bookings generated with
--freeze to match reality. But this is still a manual process as it
requires intelligent decisions from the project manager.
Chris
Rene Vergara
Is there a way to report with 'status' in bookings, like in a
timesheet?
Chris Schlaeger
> Thanks!
>
> Is there a way to report with 'status' in bookings, like in a
> timesheet?
No, status reporting has nothing to do with bookings. But you can use
journalentry to report status without using the timesheet syntax.
Chris
Rene Vergara
example in the manual that there's a way for the timesheet to request
a task be added. Is there a way to request a task removed?
- Rene
Chris Schlaeger
> a task be added. Is there a way to request a task removed?
Not directly. But setting the remaining 'effort' or 'duration' to 0
should tell the project manager to either close or completely remove
the task.
Chris