Impact Of Global And Customer Related Parameters
The total estimated duration of a task is basically calculated by summing up the duration of every task attachment. Additionally there are configuration preferences and customer related fields, which take effect on the estimate calculation of a task. The recalculateEstimatedDuration parameter must be set to activate this impact.
The stopBasisTime is a configuration parameter to pre-set any task with a basic amount of time in minutes. This time is added to the task's estimated duration only once at insertion time and will be disregarded if a setup time (see below) is defined per customer. The stopBasisTime must be a positive value or zero.
| stopBasisTime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Default Value | Example |
| Integer | 0 | 10 |
Setup Time
The setup time is a basic amount of time in minutes, defined per customer. The setup time is added to the estimated duration of a task at insertion time. Setting this value suppresses addition of the time defined by the configuration parameter stopBasisTime, even if the value is zero ("0"). The setup time must have a positive integer value or zero.
This value only has an effect on estimate calculation if the configuration parameter recalculateEstimatedDuration is set to true.
Allowance Factor
The allowance factor is a customer related value that defines an increase or reduction for task related duration estimations. It is expressed in per cent. If the value is set higher than 0%, the duration resulting from every task attachment is increased. In case the value is lower than 0%, the duration is decreased. The lowest percentage can be -100%. In case the duration shall be doubled, the value must be 100%.
This value only has an effect on estimate calculation if the configuration parameter recalculateEstimatedDuration is set to true.