Re: [Tsheetx-developers] Task "Categories"?

[Scott M. <sco...@gm...>]

So, one idea was to create something similar to unix groups where tasks
could belong to more than one category group.

Would this be a better way than having each task only being able to belong
to a single category?

-Scott

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:39 PM, David Thompson <
tom...@us...> wrote:

>  Hi Scott
>
> Task categories sounds like a good solution - actually much better than the
> separate timesheet_absences table that I implemented. We could store
> holidays, sick-days etc. in the normal time-entries table, and change the
> absence table to just hold general holidays (christmas, easter etc.).
>
> Your question as to whether to commit it to SVN is answered simply, if you
> make it optional then there can be no problem (I learnt that rule from
> tikiwiki). It is worth the effort to add a configuration option, so that
> existing users aren't disturbed too much.
>
> Cheers
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:48:33 +0000
> From: sco...@gm...
> To: tsh...@li...
> Subject: [Tsheetx-developers] Working, Time Off, Absences, etc
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> In the forums there was some discussion about absences and time off in
> general: (see
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/tsheetx/forums/forum/779083/topic/3827046
> )
>
> So, after letting that simmer on my brain for a while, I think I've had a
> good idea.  In an attempt to make the system flexible without hanging lots
> of extra baggage on it, I've added a column to the task table that indicates
> what "type" of task it happens to be.  By default all tasks are "work"
> tasks, the other two labels I've allowed are "Paid time off" and "unpaid
> time off".  And I've added drop down selectors when editing/creating a task,
> and displayed that info on the task info and task maintenance areas.
>
> My intention is to be able to provide HR a summarized report of how much
> time people worked, their "paid time off" time and their "unpaid time off"
> time for any given pay period.
>
> So, is this functionality something that others are interested in?  In
> other words, should I check this code into the SVN repository?
>
> -Scott
>
>
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