Hi,
The effort-based mode of calculating progress in ProjeQtOr is not always the best mode for all kind of tasks, especially when you work in a "DSI (Direction des Systèmes d'Information)" and your activities are not development tasks like what you are used to do in tracker.projeqtor.org.
My suggestion is to add a checkbox "manual input" on activity types. When this checkbox is ticked, the "progress" field is not "disabled="disabled"" anymore, just as it does with "handled", "done" or "closed" checkboxes which can be disabled or not according to the checkboxes configured on the activity type.
I worked with ProjeQtOr for one year and a half and all my users are very happy with it, but this lacking feature is really what bothers my users and they keep asking me since the beginning for this as the effort-based can't apply to everything they do.
I know that you decline previous suggestions of this kind but I join my voice to previous people, I really think this little feature would make ProjeQtOr really better, particularly for people migrating from Microsoft Project. I'm willing to develop this feature but I think we are talking about the core of ProjeQtOr and I don't know if the progress is "calculated" by ProjeQtOr only in the save() function of the activity, or also in some other places in ProjeQtOr…
If you have a better idea of implementation that you would accept in the ProjeQtOr code, do not hesitate.
Thank you for understanding,
The effort-based mode of calculating progress in ProjeQtOr is not always the best mode for all kind of tasks, especially when you work in a "DSI (Direction des Systèmes d'Information)" and your activities are not development tasks like what you are used to do in tracker.projeqtor.org.
My suggestion is to add a checkbox "manual input" on activity types. When this checkbox is ticked, the "progress" field is not "disabled="disabled"" anymore, just as it does with "handled", "done" or "closed" checkboxes which can be disabled or not according to the checkboxes configured on the activity type.
I worked with ProjeQtOr for one year and a half and all my users are very happy with it, but this lacking feature is really what bothers my users and they keep asking me since the beginning for this as the effort-based can't apply to everything they do.
I know that you decline previous suggestions of this kind but I join my voice to previous people, I really think this little feature would make ProjeQtOr really better, particularly for people migrating from Microsoft Project. I'm willing to develop this feature but I think we are talking about the core of ProjeQtOr and I don't know if the progress is "calculated" by ProjeQtOr only in the save() function of the activity, or also in some other places in ProjeQtOr…
If you have a better idea of implementation that you would accept in the ProjeQtOr code, do not hesitate.
Thank you for understanding,