Automatically add a generic task when creating a project

[hassantm]

Would it be possible to add a generic task to each project as it is create? We don't break our time sheets down into individual Gantt chart tasks, rather we simply book time against a project. Also we have non-project functions which also need to be recorded - technical support, management, Admin, IT etc. These don't fit into a particular project, but are necessary for the business to function, and the time needs to be recorded. How do you see these tasks fitting into the assumptions you've taken?

[pond]

I'll look into auto-creation of a "starter" generic task for booking against.

The way we've worked internally at my company is to have a customer which is ourselves, the name of our company; then one or more projects, depending mostly upon our mood :-) that break down into tasks. So although it might seem a bit counter-intuitive, you could create a project called "Non-project activities" and populate that with the tasks for technical support and so forth.

[hassantm]

That's pretty much the workaround I came up with. The overall model works for what we do; we have clients who can have one or more projects on the go. Those projects form cost centres to which we attach time and materials. Different grades of employee are costed at set rates, so a place to put user's role would also be useful for reporting in our use case. So what we need to record is the amount of time spent on each project in a day rather than time spent on individual tasks.

An alternative to OpenID and some ability to add branding would also be cool :-)

Overall I really like it though. I just need to figure out how to get it working on my Apache server and we're in business.

H

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I'll look into auto-creation of a "starter" generic task for booking against.

The way we've worked internally at my company is to have a customer which is ourselves, the name of our company; then one or more projects, depending mostly upon our mood :-) that break down into tasks. So although it might seem a bit counter-intuitive, you could create a project called "Non-project activities" and populate that with the tasks for technical support and so forth.

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[pond]

An alternative to OpenID

Yeah, OpenID was all the rage when we started out and now it's dying. Bit of a pain.

some ability to add branding would also be cool

You can at least change the name by editing the locale file. Edit config/locales/en.yml and look for the site_name tag. TrackRecord's first version existed prior to this form of internationalisation existing within Rails, so there's a lot which isn't in the locale file and the configured name may not be used 100% consistently but hopefully it won't be too bad and if you spot anything annoying just file a GitHub issue for it. There's one remaining hangover from pre-i18n days which means you need to also edit config/initializers/general_config.rb and set ORGANISATION_NAME. I'm about to file a bug against myself for that one, because it's only used in one place in the whole source tree and really should have come from en.yml ages ago.

You've probably already seen config/initializers/email_config.rb so know about configuring the subject line prefix there.

[pond]

(Not forgotten about this, just busy with the move - will get back to it once I'm in NZ I should think).

[pond]

Finally addressed the create-thing-in-passing aspect of this in version 2.26, along with removing ORGANISATION_NAME so that the locale files are entirely used for that.

[pond]

Closing. The rest of this is tracked in Issue #35.