Re: Re: Release 6.02

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>> The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>    If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
>>    you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
>>    work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
>>    entries.  If you are also clocking your work, you may later
>>    want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
>>    time.  Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
>>    property `Effort', displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
>>    and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
>>    work load of a day.  See the manual for more details.
>
> Carsten, I'm already using a property called "Estimate" that works
> great, especially in column view.  What extra functionally would I get
> by switching to this Effort property, or changing the
> org-effort-property to work with my Estimate property?

Hi Peter,

currently the only difference is that you can include the duration of  
appointments into the total effort estimate of a day, that is all.

I think this property will become more special in the future, maybe  
using special commands to set the estimate without having to enter  
column view.  But you are quite right that not much special stuff  
happens right now with this property.

HTH.

- Carsten

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> Thanks.
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