[kplato] Some missing features/comments from another project app

[Jim Sabatke]

Richard Bos wrote:

>Perhaps that the underneath mentioned comments can be put into the
>design document of kplato.  So kplato does not have these "errors" when that 
>particular code/functionality will be released.
>
>(http://lists.codefactory.se/pipermail/mrproject/2001-July/000248.html)
>* Have task duration be measured in hours, not days.
>
To be really useful, task durations and effort should be displayable and 
enterable in minutes, hours, days and weeks.  That is basic 
functionality to any PM tool I've ever used.

>
>* Dependencies... The "link" button isn't very user
>friendly. As I'm building a project, the tasks aren't
>necessarily listed in any meaningful order. Setting
>dependencies helps me determine what order they should
>be in. When I set dependencies through the interface,
>the direction of the dependence is determined by the
>order on the task list. I'd prefer to to have another
>tab on the "Task Properties" dialog call
>"dependencies" where I could manually enter the ids of
>other dependent task" (This links would have to be
>preserved when I reorder also).
>
Very good idea!

>
>* Get that % complete feature working!
>
>* Identify resource conflicts. Let me know if I've
>assigned "Bob" to two tasks at the same time.
>
That would only be a conflict if there isn't enough time available for 
"Bob" to complete all tasks he is concurrently assigned to.

>
>* Let us be able to manually enter the duration right
>on the gantt chart screen. We can grab the bar in the
>can drag it, but we can't type in "20 hrs".
>
I've personally never found dragging GANT bars to be useful, but most 
packages do have this functionality.

>
>(http://lists.codefactory.se/pipermail/mrproject/2001-July/000249.html)
>
>>Make that selectable granularity then.  We prefer days.  So 24hrs == 3 days 
>>assuming an 8hr working day, a 4 hr task is 0.5 days etc.
>>
>
>>IMHO an hour granularity is overkill, especially on large projects of long 
>>duration.
>>
Some projects have a lot of little tasks.  I've had projects where there 
might be a couple hundred 4 hour tasks.  Also, the workday hours should 
come from the resource's calendar.

>
>* Let us drag-n-drop to reorder items in the task list.
>
That would also be very useful.

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