Hmm, I read your post several times.
Not sure I completely understand why summing hourly fee makes no sense... Maybe I'm using the management a little different than others? This is how I put up the tasks in taskcoach: Main.tsk + ProjectA (task with hourly fee 200) ++ Subtask1, coding the GUI (3 hours) ++ Subtask2, coding the classes (2 hours) + ProjectB (task with hourly fee 100) ProjectA sums up to 5 hours, which sums up to 5*200=1000 Money units.. projectA does not have a payout of the pot before it's complete. So summing the hourly fees makes sense to me. Anyway, if the text fields are designed to not be shown where I had a red circle, I would propose to symbolically separate "for this task" and "for this task including subtask" . a thin line between those to might do it, they are to close at the moment in my opinion. As for the revenue fields, I would much more like them to show text fields that are greyed out. Thanks for swift replies. I appreciate that you take your time to write ;) ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Niessink Sent: 30. juli 2008 21:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [taskcoach-dev] calculated fee? Hi Thor, 2008/7/30 Thor S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:thor918%40online.no> >: > as you see in the properties of the main task, there is no text field for > inputting "for this task including sub tasks" Right, the 'for this task including sub tasks' columns displays the value of the different attributes (time spent, budget left, etc.) as: "value for this task + sum(values of all sub tasks, recursively)". So, for in the case of time spent the right-most column shows the total time spent on this task and all of its sub tasks. However, summing doesn't make sense for hourly fee, so that's the reason there is no value in the right-most column of hourly fee. I'm all ears for suggestions on how to make this more intuitive... Cheers, Frank
