Total for tasks with the same description

PlunderBunny

I work on many different issues (from a bug tracker) during the day, so in addition to tasks named 'Meeting' and 'Admin', I have a task named 'Development'. When I start work on an issue, I create a Development task and give it a description that matches the issue number (e.g. "DEV-12345" if I am working on Jira issue DEV-12345). At the end of the day, I need to total all the tasks with the same description. E.g. If, during the day I have two separate entries for the Jira issue DEV-26983, I want to be able to see a total for DEV-26983 without having to work it out in my head.

I have attached a screen-shot of the list of tasks for a particular day from Working Hours to help. This is a simple example - it can get much more complicated.

Sorry that it sounds like I'm asking you to support my personal workflow, but I'm sure other people who have to log their time against a bug tracker must do the same thing. Or is there a better way?

WorkingHours version: 2.13.13
OS + version: macOS Sequoia 15.7.2 (24G325)
Device model: MacBook Pro 16" (Intel), 2019

timo

I'm assuming with "tasks" you are referring to "work units" (see terminology here).
You can already see the total for a certain description by either filtering for that description (and then checking the Analytics page) or using the export feature and use the filter + optionally the "group by work unit description". Why are those options not sufficient?

PlunderBunny

Sorry for the delay in replying - I've been thinking about how to give a useful answer. Yes - I did mean work units.
Both the solutions you've proposed work of course, but most of the time they're still slower than just adding the numbers up in my head. For the simple example in my screen-shot, it's a few seconds work to add 46 minutes and 4 hour, 56 minutes - no problem. There is a certain level of complexity where there would be so many items to add that exporting or using the analytics page would be faster. But there's an 'in between' point too, where adding the numbers for multiple work units with the same description in your head is a bit of a chore, but it's still faster than exporting/analytics.
Maybe there are very few people that log their time this way though - I really wouldn't know. Maybe, adding the numbers in my head is good for me!