Hi Thor,

2008/7/31 Thor S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Not sure I completely understand why summing hourly fee makes no sense...

What I meant was that summing the hourly fee itself does not make
sense. Suppose you have these tasks:
+ Customer XYZ
++ Project 1: hourly fee = 150
++ Project 2: hourly fee = 100

Now what is the hourly fee of the task 'Customer XYZ'? Surely it is
not 150+100. You could argue it should be the average of the hourly
fees of Project 1 and 2, but what if the time spent on Project 1 is
much larger or smaller than on Project 2?

> 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.

What you call 'hourly fees' here is called 'revenue' and 'total
revenue' in Task Coach.

> 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.

I agree that the user interface of the task editor dialog can be much improved.

Cheers, Frank

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