Be able to input custom progress for some activity types

Hi,

The effort-based mode of calculating progress in ProjeQtOr is not always the best mode for all kind of tasks, especially when you work in a "DSI (Direction des Systèmes d'Information)" and your activities are not development tasks like what you are used to do in tracker.projeqtor.org.

My suggestion is to add a checkbox "manual input" on activity types. When this checkbox is ticked, the "progress" field is not "disabled="disabled"" anymore, just as it does with "handled", "done" or "closed" checkboxes which can be disabled or not according to the checkboxes configured on the activity type.

I worked with ProjeQtOr for one year and a half and all my users are very happy with it, but this lacking feature is really what bothers my users and they keep asking me since the beginning for this as the effort-based can't apply to everything they do.

I know that you decline previous suggestions of this kind but I join my voice to previous people, I really think this little feature would make ProjeQtOr really better, particularly for people migrating from Microsoft Project. I'm willing to develop this feature but I think we are talking about the core of ProjeQtOr and I don't know if the progress is "calculated" by ProjeQtOr only in the save() function of the activity, or also in some other places in ProjeQtOr…

If you have a better idea of implementation that you would accept in the ProjeQtOr code, do not hesitate.
Thank you for understanding,

I came up to another possible implementation while looking at the algorithm behind:
By default, progress is inputable and when real work != 0 or left work != 0, progress becomes disabled, what do you think of it? What is your favorite solution? Do you have another one?

babynus wrote: But what realy bothers me, is that these tasks won't participate to Project Pogress...

Indeed, I didn't think of this side effect. Would it be better to implement this system at project level? This way, when project is "manual inputable" the % is not calculated with real work?

Also, look at the other message I wrote while you were working on your answer

I think that's how my users want to work.
However, they don't want to go through a lot of fields that would require 50-100 days of development, they are able to estimate the % of the physical progress done at a task level. At a project level, it is more difficult.

This way, indeed, you loose the ability to have an automatic calculation of the project progress because activities don't have the same weight. So I asked my management what to do about this, and they answered they are not interested by the project %. Maybe if they need it, they will edit manually the project progress? Though it's approximate while ProjeQtOr has a more accurate calculation of %. I will tell you if they eventually come up with a good idea.

Meanwhile, I added a commit to make it possible to edit progress if these three conditions are met:
- There is no left work and no real work (otherwise it is calculated and read only)
- Activity is handled (otherwise it is 0% and read only)
- Project/Activity is not done (otherwise it is 100% and read only)
github.com/papjul/projeqtor/commit/fee8d...a07a68a416f7a0f163e8

If you want to add it to ProjeQtOr, be careful that the repository is still based off ProjeQtOr 6.0.1, so only copy the changes