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Customize Working time

Added by Paul Britton over 7 years ago

New user here… Is it possible to create a custom working time calendar?

Usually this is needed to set a 5/6 or 7 working day week, but in my case, I need to set a 3 day working week for a part time project myself and some friends are working on.

I need OpenProject to calculate task completion dates based on estimated task durations for a 3 day/week work schedule….

Seems a fairly basic requirement, but I can’t see how to do it (or even to set weekends as working or non-working)


Replies (8)

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Robin Wagner over 7 years ago

Hello Paul,

this is not yet possible in OpenProject.
While defining working days and times is certainly a useful feature, it requires major changes to OpenProject.
Therefore, we did not yet implement it.

As of now, you can use the Gantt chart to create project plans and create relations to automatically update following phases / milestones.
Work days / times are however not yet considered so you would need to update this manually.

Best regards,
Robin

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Christian Migliaccio over 5 years ago

Hi Robin,

Since it has been two years from this matter, I'd like to know if working time customizing feature is now included on OpenProject.

Thanks,

Christian.

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Robin Wagner over 5 years ago

Hi Christian,

working times are not yet available in OpenProject but are in fact one of the next main features we plan to implement (we'll likely start with implementing weekends).

Can you elaborate on your requirements? Aside from considering weekends which other aspects (e.g. holidays, vacation) would be most relevant for you?

Thanks,
Robin

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Christian Migliaccio over 5 years ago

Thanks for your interest Robin!  Yes, I Will be glad to help in this matter.

Some of the requirements I think OpenProject might include are:

  • Calcualte tasks ending dates based on starting date plus non-working days.
  • Non-working days could be managed on following basis:
    • Country calendars as for national holidays (for example: Independence Day)
    • Company calendars as for business working days (for example: non-banking day)
    • Team calendars as for people in a team performing other tasks tan regular work (for example: training day)
    • Individual calendars as for people personal issues (for example: having holidays)
  • Include an option to update ending dates based on calendar changes plus task progress information.
  • Adding working hours would be a great feature too.
  • Handling these features would be very usefull to estimate project's finish date.

Greetings,

Christian.

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Mohammad Ashraful Haque almost 5 years ago

Hi there,

I'm new in this community and exploring the features. I would like to add another point with Christian. It would be helpful if we can get an option to calculate the number of working days (i.e. duration) automatically. Plus email notification for start date & finish date of each work package would be more helpful for big projects.

Thanks

Ashraful

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Oliver Günther almost 5 years ago

Hi Mohammad,

thanks for your feedback. Please also add it to #30639 to chime in on the resource planning Epic.

Best

Oliver

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Thomas de Beauchêne almost 4 years ago

Hey, Bumping the subject 👋 I am currently discovering OpenProject, and as I am getting to love it, missing this working days feature is feeling hard. I don't want to say dealbreaker, but feeling unsure about it. Is there an open ticket that we can track ?

RE: Customize Working time - Added by Thomas de Beauchêne almost 4 years ago

Another question, since you guys are using your own product for your own project management : 

How do you work around missing this in your project planning, and still manage to track project time with tasks calculated over non-working days ?

I am trying to find a tool like OpenProject, and a way to plan my project, that will allow my client to keep track of the deadlines and delivery dates and an answer could really help me using OpenProject in that regard.

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