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

[Jim George]

On Sunday 05 August 2001 1:45 am, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> 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.
>
snip....
> >
> >>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.

Will there be the ability to resource share across projects so that we don't 
over-schedule?

Also I prefer to be able to allocate a % of the resources work day to 'admin' 
so that I know how much is truely productive for my project(s).


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

Ji