ActivityTimeline administrator can define and change the settings of Workload indicator in timeline panel.
Workload Indicator Settings page has 3 sections:
Time Tracking
Work Time
Workload & Availability Modes
Time Tracking
This section defines whether ActivityTimeline should show or hide workload/availability indicators, what valued 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
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
Work Time
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
Workload & Availability Modes
Choose how the task estimate is split across days if a task is scheduled from the past to the future and has remaining time estimate.
Possible values:
Distribute remaining estimate into past days (not recommended)
Exclude past days / weeks / days and today from distributing remaining estimate
Default Value: Exclude past days from distributing remaining estimate.
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