Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges

[Paul Mead]

Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

>
> Hi Rainer and Paul,
>
> Locating gaps would be useful.  I've been meaning to investigate this
> but haven't spent any time on it yet.  With my current clocking setup
> I've found I get very few holes.  Checking the times is a task I do
> manually just before billing for my time.  I currently just use a visual
> scan of the daily agenda(s) including clocking lines displayed ensuring
> that the start and end times match over the clocking period.
>
> It should be possible to automate the check.  How should a filtered
> agenda be handled?  I expect you'd want to see the gaps for the entries
> that are filtered away otherwise it's only really meaningful when you
> look at the entire clocking data.
>
> The major problem I used to have was clocks that would be opened and
> never closed.  These were bad because they count as 0 minutes and
> without fixing those entries I don't bill for that time.  Since the
> invention of M-x org-resolve-clocks (which runs everytime I clock in) I
> now find these open clocks quickly and don't need to reconstruct the
> data a week later.  I haven't had this problem in a long time.
>
> Maybe something like the following mock up?
>
> Day-agenda (W15):
> Wednesday  13 April 2011
>   todo:        7:09- 7:11 Clocked:   (0:02) Organization                      
>              :PERSONAL::
>                7:11- 8:00 - Gap ->   (0:49)
>   org:         8:00- 8:12 Clocked:   (0:12) DONE Try to fix this bug          
>       :ORG:WORK:tuning::
>   todo:        8:12- 8:26 Clocked:   (0:14) Organization                      
>              :PERSONAL::
>   diary:       8:26- 9:06 Clocked:   (0:40) Breakfast
>   todo:        9:06- 9:30 Clocked:   (0:24) Task A                            
>              :PERSONAL::
>                9:30-10:58 - Gap ->   (1:28)
>               10:00...... ----------------
>   todo:       10:58-11:11 Clocked:   (0:13) Organization                      
>              :PERSONAL::
>               vvv ------ Overlap ------ vvv
>   todo:       11:11-11:12 Clocked:   (0:01) Read Mail and News                
>              :PERSONAL::
>   todo:       11:10-11:14 Clocked:   (0:01) Organization                      
>              :PERSONAL::
>               ^^^ ------ Overlap ------ ^^^
>   todo:       11:14-11:15 Clocked:   (0:01) Read Mail and News                
>              :PERSONAL::
>   todo:       11:15-11:16 Clocked:   (0:01) Organization                      
>              :PERSONAL::
>               12:00...... ----------------
>               14:00...... ----------------
>               16:00...... ----------------
>               11:16-16:33 - Gap ->   (5:17)
>   todo:       16:33...... Clocked:   (-) Read Mail and News                   
>              :PERSONAL::
>               16:43...... now - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> -
>               18:00...... ----------------
>               20:00...... ----------------
>
> Regards,
> Bernt

Bernt, that's exactly how I'd envisaged the gap identification, and the
overlap highlighting looks great.

Paul