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ActivityTimeline administrator can define and change the settings of Workload indicator in timeline Timeline panel.

Workload Indicator Settings page has 3 sections:

  1. Time Tracking

  2. Work Time

  3. Employee's Workplace

  4. Workload & Availability Modes

Time Tracking

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This section defines whether ActivityTimeline should show or hide workload/availability indicators, what valued value should workload be calculated in, and the algorithm of the calculation.

  • Show Workload Indicator
    Defines whether ActivityTimeline should show or hide workload/availability indicators.
    Possible values: 

    • checked - Workload Indicator is shown

    • unchecked - Workload Indicator is hidden

Default value: checked

  • Workload Calculation Algorithm
    Defines calculation algorithm for Workload Indicator. 
    Possible values: BALANCE or LIQUID

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In BALANCE mode workload is distributed evenly across the days the task is scheduled, in LIQUID the system is trying to fully allocate each day and what’s left is moved to the next day.

Default Value: BALANCE

  • Time Estimate Format
    Defines 'Original Time Estimate' and 'Remaining Time Estimate' values displaying format.
    Possible values:
    Auto - estimate is grouped by periods e.g. 10 hours estimate will show up as '1d 2h';
    Hours - estimate is displayed in hours only e.g. '10h'
    Days - estimate is displayed in days only e.g. '1.25d'
    Weeks - estimate is displayed in weeks only e.g. '0.2w'

Default Value: Hours

  • Workload Calculation Algorithm
    Defines calculation algorithm for Workload Indicator. 
    Possible values: BALANCE or LIQUID

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In BALANCE mode workload is distributed evenly across the days the task is scheduled, in LIQUID the system is trying to fully allocate each day and what’s left is moved to the next day.

Default Value: BALANCE

  • Workload Indicator Color Range Customization
    Customizes the color coding of the workload indicator based on the custom workload percentage ranges.

Default Value:

0% up to 50% (excluding)

50% up to 87% (excluding)

87% up to 101% (excluding)

101% up to 125% (excluding)

125% and above.

Work Time

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  • Work hours in day
    Defines the amount of working hours in a day (default person's capacity (involvement) in hours per a working day). It has an influence on the workload/availability indicator. 
    Also, this setting is used to convert long time estimates from days to hours. E.g. 2 days = 16 work hours by default.

Default Value:8

  • Work days
    Defines the list of work days. 'sat' and 'sun' are treated as weekend and workload indicator will ignore them during workload calculation as well as vacations, holidays, sick leaves and days off.

Default Value: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Employee's Workplace

  • Worklog Chart Mode

This setting allows to configure what information to show on the bar chart in Work View. Possible options are: Show only worklogs, show both Worklogs & forecasted Workload from assigned tasks or don't show the chart at all.

Default: Show Worklogs Only

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Workload & Availability Modes

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Choose how the task estimate is split across days if a task is scheduled from the past to the future and has a remaining time estimate.

Possible values:

  • Distribute the remaining estimate into past days (not recommended)

    • Exclude past days/ weeks / days and today from distributing the remaining estimate

Default Value: Exclude past days from distributing the remaining estimate.

If you have any additional questions related to the following section, please don’t hesitate to contact our team at: support@reliex.com.

Also, you can check our Quick Start Guide to get started with ActivityTimeline in under 5 minutes.


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