Hours in a day for estimated time

We use the 'Estimated time' field on all our tasks to be able to create reports that give us an idea of the total workload. This works fine as long as we specify the estimated times in hours. When specifying this value in days a day in Taskmanager is counted as 24 hours, while our users usually mean work days, which are 8 hours. This makes our reports unusable.

The same issue exists for 'Week', which also counts 24 hours in a day, and 7 days in a week instead of 5 work days. This way 168 hours are accounted for, instead of 40...

Can you translate the 'day'-value to 8 hours instead of 24 hours, or provide another solution to specify the number of hours in a day? Same question for the week-value.

Maybe you can add 'Work day' (= 8 hours) and 'Work week' (= 40 hours) as new time specifiërs. (Optionally you could give us the possibility to specify the numbers of hours in a 'Work day' and 'Work week' in the programs general preferences)?

Thanks a lot,

Geert

At the moment there is no possibility to add this feature to VIP Task Manager because it automatically converts the input data of Estimated Time field to Float type so there is no difference for the program if you entered hours or days or weeks.

The best solution now is to input Estimated time always in hours. For example, if the task is estimated to take 3 working days it is better to enter 24 hours.

Hello Serge,

Can you confirm if this issue will be placed on the roadmap? Our users keep making mistakes as a result of this issue.

Hello Geert,

At the moment there is no plans for developing working hours system. If you want to prevent users from mistakes you need to enter Estimated Time in Hours and set the program to display Estimated Time in Hours (tools/options/general) so that when you estimate 24 hours for task execution, users will see 24 hours (not 1 day).