Overlapping tasks visualization/warnings

bramborman

Often I have to change times of work units in the past for various reasons (for example because I realize I forgot to switch to another task at the right time). As I have to edit start and stop times on two units, it's kinda error prone so it would be nice if WorkingHours somehow visualize when more working units are overlapping and/or shown some kind of dismissable warning.

WorkingHours version: 2.6.11.0
Operating system: Windows

bramborman

This would maybe be even more useful when adding a working unit manually (without timer) as one may unintentionally add it to for example incorrect day etc.

timo

bramborman somehow visualize

Do you have an idea how that could be visualized?

bramborman

timo Maybe some warning triangle like this: ⚠ and/or a different background? For both the work unit groups (day, week, month etc. based on settings) and the overlapping units.

SebastianThoss

I would even challenge if there should be a configuration to disable overlapping at all. In this case, it would be required to amend /delete other entries as soon as the user is manually changing an entry. I found this behavior in timeular quite helpful. Maye timeular is a good place for reference, how it works.

haifisch

The same request appeard in our company. Especially because of the fact, that due to inproper handling of the mobile and windows app, doubled entries are possible. Such a feature would be an easy way to detect doubled entries or invalid manual adjustments.

A visualization could be a symbol or colored line in the element-overview and additionaly a symbol or colored working-unit in the analyzation-overview.