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I would also like to see a sum of the estimated time on certain places. I would also like to use it for planning purposes, although in a slightly different way. We do not use redmine solely for software projects but also to plan issues where we know upfront how many hours it is going to take.

It would be nice to have also in the gantt chart, e.g. see the total estimated hours per day (using the starting day to show the number).

+1

We also need an aggregated report on estimated time. Maybe this could be built by extending the report on Spent time? Or as a separate report -- it would be helpful too.

BTW, it would also be useful to see a number of issues not yet estimated. It could be a link to a list of such issues.

Hi Michael!

Thanks for the screenshot. Looks promising to me.

Actually we are also interested in a breakdown of remaining time (which is a sum of estimates minus spent time for all non-closed tickets) by Category, developer, etc. The % Done bar shown on your screenshot isn't quite an indication (to us) of the remaining time (just with our process we are used to) as the % Done field is set manually rather then gets calculated automatically based on estimated and spent time for an issue.

Understand that it's a question of preferences/selected process -- how to record progress. What's currently implemented in Redmine is recording progress by manually setting the % Done. And the spent time logging/reporting is sort of additional. We in our case are more for updating the estimate field instead -- when we see that the remaining time shown in our planning tool isn't sufficient to complete the task. Just we are used to the XPlanner's model for time metrics :-)

Michael Pirogov wrote:

I'm working on plugin, which maybe would get your attention.

It's based on timesheet plugin (by E. Devis), but it's AJAX powered and have some more features against estimated time tracking.

Micheal, do you have a public code repository for this plugin? I could lend a development hand or two.

Anna Labinskaya wrote:

Actually we are also interested in a breakdown of remaining time (which is a sum of estimates minus spent time for all non-closed tickets) by Category, developer, etc.

I've been wanting to build a plugin that would show estimate progress for a project. It would use progress bars and would "fill up" as time is spent towards an estimate. I think it should also change colors from green to yellow to red as the time spent reaches and surpasses an estimate.

Anna Labinskaya wrote:

Guys, take a look at our version (implemented by Artem Vasiliev, he's going to submit a patch soon today): time-breakdown.PNG

Here it is: #1671
Please take a look :)

We ended up coding a simple total for estimated time of visible issues (see attached). If there is interest will upload as a patch.

Patch filed here: #2268

Michael Pirogov wrote:

I'm working on plugin, which maybe would get your attention.

Michael, have you finished that timeplan plugin?
the screen mockup you uploaded is pretty nice, but failed to find any plugin/patch to get such screen. (I don't need it translated).

As mentioned the first time by Tony Marschall in #8559 note-4, there exists a plugin which provides (parts of) this feature (along with some others): Redmine spent time column. It's written by Jan Schulz-Hofen of plan.io.

I've started working on some improvements to make it better suitable for this issue in my fork of it:
https://github.com/MischaTheEvil/redmine_spent_time_column

r14642 makes it possible to display totals for estimated hours, spent hours and any numeric custom field.
Totals that are displayed by default can be configured in the application settings.

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

r14642 makes it possible to display totals for estimated hours, spent hours and any numeric custom field.
Totals that are displayed by default can be configured in the application settings.

That is awesome! Will it work also for grouped queries? Will it show totals for each group and for entire query?

Will it show totals for each group

Not implemented yet but it should be done soon.

The feature is very, very useful but after working with it for a while it seems that it would be more practical if total values would show up under right columns instead single summary line. It would be much more readable. I have added #21390 to track it separately.