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#9279 new defect

start date in chart different to set start date in ticket

Reported by: falkb Owned by: Chris Nelson
Priority: normal Component: TracJsGanttPlugin
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Trac Release: 0.12

Description

I have a ticket which is parent of other tickets and it has set fields.start and fields.finish. I understand both fields as they are for setting the planned range of time.

But the chart don't display the given start date in column "Start Date" correctly, but it seems to compute a new start date from "End Date" minus worked hours. That confuses us when reading the chart as plan.

BTW: on several places it's not clear in the chart what is just data of plan/schedule and what is data of the past reality. This should be clearly distinguished by the chart, maybe by colors. This is somehow related to #8786.

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comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by Ryan J Ollos

Cc: Ryan J Ollos added; anonymous removed

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by falkb

This patch fixes the chart to used the given planned start date for displaying the ticket bar, instead of any calculated start date by "finish date minus duration":

  • C:/tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/tracjsgantt.py

     
    641641
    642642                # Set the fields
    643643                t['calc_finish'] = finish
    644                 t['calc_start'] = start
     644                if (t[self.fields['start']]):
     645                    t['calc_start'] = datetime(*time.strptime(t[self.fields['start']], self.dbDateFormat)[0:7])
     646                else:
     647                    t['calc_start'] = start
    645648
    646649            return t['calc_start']
    647650
     
    723726
    724727                # Set the fields
    725728                t['calc_finish'] = finish
    726                 t['calc_start'] = start
     729                if (t[self.fields['start']]):
     730                    t['calc_start'] = datetime(*time.strptime(t[self.fields['start']], self.dbDateFormat)[0:7])
     731                else:
     732                    t['calc_start'] = start
    727733
    728734            return t['calc_finish']

Anyway it's a hack, but I expect to see the ticket plan in the chart. In the end the chart sources must be reviewed to clearly distinguish between displaying the datetimes and time ranges of plan and reality.

comment:3 in reply to:  2 Changed 12 years ago by anonymous

Replying to falkb:

This patch fixes the chart to used the given planned start date for displaying the ticket bar, instead of any calculated start date by "finish date minus duration":

Well now after my update to [10928] this patch doesn't work anymore either. Now I see the plugin behaviour that start time of a ticket is always the calculated. That overrules all given start dates I have set in the 'start' field of the ticket, and this overruling is a bug.

comment:4 in reply to:  description Changed 12 years ago by falkb

Replying to falkb:

I have a ticket which is parent of other tickets and it has set fields.start and fields.finish. I understand both fields as they are for setting the planned range of time.

But the chart don't display the given start date in column "Start Date" correctly, but it seems to compute a new start date from "End Date" minus worked hours. That confuses us when reading the chart as plan.

Checked it again with today's version (see #9653). That wrong behaviour still happens.

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by Chris Nelson

The problem here appears to be that rather than honoring user-supplied start and finish for groups, I bubble-up the earliest child start and latest child finish. I'll come back to this, but I don't know how soon.

comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by Ryan J Ollos

Cc: Ryan J Ollos removed

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