Hi Istvan,
2008/6/24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> My categories represents clients and/or projects. With some customers I
> have a strict billing system, I bill for the exact time I spend at them
> (on strict I mean I count the minutes).
> I have tasks as short as five minutes and as long as a few weeks,
> usually with a lot of interruptions. When I create a new task I select
> the customer as category so I can use that information in reports.
What I usually do is create task structure like this:
Client A
Project 1
Task 1.1
Task 1.2
...
Project 2
Task 2.1
...
Client B
etc. If you set it up like that you can simply filter ('search') for
client and/or project name and export only the effort for a specific
client or project (see my remark below).
> You'r absolutely right. The reason I like TaskCoach is that it is simple
> to use. This is why I was thinking about a plugin, so the user does not
> have to face it if he or she does not need it. An interesting approach
> is what Supermemo uses. It is a learning-aid software and when you start
> it you see only a few menus and buttons. There is one menu item where
> you can choose which view do you want to see. In basic view your
> interface is very simple and intuitive. In advanced view it is pretty
> complicated.
This indeed may be one direction to go in the future.
> Reporting is always a difficult matter as people wants different
> information. I was thinking about something like IBM Query software on
> AS/400 which has a simple and easy to use user interface for making
> queries from an SQL database. The user may select the fields he wants to
> be included in the report, may specify sorting and grouping, and not
> more than five summary functions like min, max, summary, average.
Task Coach already allows you to do some of these things because it
will print or export exactly what you see in the active viewer: sort
order, search filter, columns, etc.
Cheers, Frank
