More intellegent data entry

We've had requests from our users to allow them to put in the hourly time as, say 8.5, which means 8 and one half hours. The way the timesheet currently interprets that is the .5 means 5 minutes.

I think it would be relatively simple to change the logic such that the decimal part could be translated to the correct number of minutes, so .5 becomes 30 minutes, .25 -> 15 minutes etc.

Perhaps this could even be user configurable...

We exclusively use the "simple" interface, so I'm not familiar with how the other interfaces might be tweaked.

-Scott

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Submitted by Scott Miller on 13 April 2009 - 4:55pm
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#1 tommo

You're right, I've used many systems that distinguish better between time entry in hours and minutes, and in "decimal" notation.

A good convention would using the formats HH:MM for hours and minutes (e.g. 08:15), and HH.HH for decimal (e.g 08.25).

If the entry would be flexible, handling both if possible, then that would be a good feature.

14 Apr 2009 - 11:06am