Estimated time on project en lists level | Voters

Estimated time on project en lists level

Niels Bakhuis

I would like to be able to add a time estimate for a list or a project. I think it would be helpful to see an overview of the time I can spend on a project, especially when a projectmanager assigns a certain number of hours to a project. 
This would be helpful for checking how many hours I can spend on a certain task, or part of a project. Maybe it could be helpful to give an overview of how many hours I can still assign to tasks within that project.
Thanks! 😄👌

February 12, 2019

Lindsay Gariepy

This would be great, but it needs to be included in the Time Reporting Dashboard - right now the time reporting dashboard only gives you the tasks that time was tracked against estimates. It would be great if we could see the total list estimated hours.

Daniel Mislovic

Excatly this!

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Time estimates per list or view (not only per task or sub-task)

Andrés Luna

Many times it's necessary to be able to quickly calculate (sum) how much time will it take to perform a group of of tasks in a list or even in a filtered view. Eg: How much time is needed to complete all of the tasks/lists of the X department, or created by X, or assigned to X, or tagged with X, etc

May 30, 2023

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Time Estimates for Workspaces

Cindy

We work on clients that have monthly retainers. Their retainers have set time limits in total for the month. We would like to set these time limits per client/workspaces instead of tasks.

April 4, 2023

Caroline Ginty

Thanks Cindy! I'm going to merge this into an existing FR to track time estimates on a list level for a similar use case.

Karla Rivas

I have several clients separated by list and I would like to know the estimated time I work with each one of them in order to better organize the time I work with each one according to what they pay.

Caroline Ginty

Merged in a post:

Recurring Time Estimates for Lists (Monthly Time Budgets per Customer)

Jochen Gentner

We're an Online Advertising Agency with a lot of customers organized in lists. Each customer / each customers "project" is a separate list where we put all the tasks inside.
Our customers have contracts with fixed fees. So for us, they have fixed monthly timebudgets (e.g. 12 hours/Month) which we need to control.
We now have one-time task for our customers and e.g. recurring "check-ups" and other recurring tasks.
We can't drop a time estimate for every task, but we want to have an overview on monthly base.
We've tried workarounds with a monthly recurring task with time estimate as a " time budget helper", but it's not working without manually book some time on this task (without tracked time, the task was not shown in the report and it was not calculated with the other measured time)...

March 21, 2023

Caroline Ginty

Thanks for the feedback Jochen Gentner! I'm going to merge this into the broader request (which I see you also commented on!) so we can track them together.

Jochen Gentner

We're also in need of this, BUT we need it as recurring time estimates (monthly), because we're having monthly fixed fee contracts with our customers and want to keep an eye on profitability.

All our Customers/Projects are organized in lists. So list level time estimates would be so extremely helpful to us... on task level it's mostly useless.

Caroline Ginty

Thanks all for the engagement here so far - keep it coming! Given how you would expect to use this, would you like to see:

Task-level time estimates 'rolled up' to the list level
A separate way to create an estimate at the list level
Both (would love more info on your use case if so)
Something else entirely?

Patrick Kofler

Caroline Ginty: Primarily option 2 for us: We would use the fixed time estimate on list/folder level to define how many hours can be spent on a certain project or part of a project. The time estimate on list/folder level would be set at the start of the project and shouldn't be changed even if new tasks are being added to the list/folder.
Additionally, it would be useful to have a rollup of the task's time estimates on list/folder level (option 1) to check if the time estimate of all tasks of the projects is in line with the initial estimation (= fixed time estimate on list/folder level)
To sum it up, option 3 would be ideal for us.

Jon Mervis

Caroline Ginty: 1

Chuukhai Choy

Caroline Ginty: Option 2 - so we can assign a project's overall estimated hours at initiating. At the same time, should be able to view whether the sum of individual task's estimated hours is within the list/project's estimated hours

Andrea Colajacomo

Caroline Ginty: option 2 or 3. The estimate at list or folder level need also to be compared to the total amount of estimates at task level inside list or folder

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