Redmine - Add "Spent Time" Field to Issues Display - redmine

Question

How would I go about adding the "Spent Time" as a column to be displayed in the issues list?

Answer 1

Consolidating Eric and Joel's answers, this is what I needed to do to get a 'Spent time' column added to Redmine 1.0.3. Not sure if there's a better way to get the translation text added.
To give the new field a localised name, added to config/locales/en.yml around line 299 at the end of the field definitions:
field_spent_hours: Spent time
To add the new column, created lib/spent_time_query_patch.rb with content:
# Based on http://github.com/edavis10/question_plugin/blob/master/lib/question_query_patch.rb
require_dependency 'query'
module QueryPatch
def self.included(base) # :nodoc:
base.extend(ClassMethods)
# Same as typing in the class
base.class_eval do
unloadable # Send unloadable so it will not be unloaded in development
base.add_available_column(QueryColumn.new(:spent_hours))
end
end
module ClassMethods
unless Query.respond_to?(:available_columns=)
# Setter for +available_columns+ that isn't provided by the core.
def available_columns=(v)
self.available_columns = (v)
end
end
unless Query.respond_to?(:add_available_column)
# Method to add a column to the +available_columns+ that isn't provided by the core.
def add_available_column(column)
self.available_columns << (column)
end
end
end
end
To get the spent_time_query_patch above to actually load, created config/initializers/spent_time_query_patch.rb with content:
require 'spent_time_query_patch'
Query.class_eval do
include QueryPatch
end

Answer 2

You can also do this by adding the column at runtime. This will add the spent hours column without modifying the Redmine core. Just drop the following code into a file in lib/
Adapted from:
Redmine Budget Plugin
Redmine Question Plugin
require_dependency 'query'
module QueryPatch
def self.included(base) # :nodoc:
base.extend(ClassMethods)
# Same as typing in the class
base.class_eval do
unloadable # Send unloadable so it will not be unloaded in development
base.add_available_column(QueryColumn.new(:spent_hours))
end
end
module ClassMethods
unless Query.respond_to?(:available_columns=)
# Setter for +available_columns+ that isn't provided by the core.
def available_columns=(v)
self.available_columns = (v)
end
end
unless Query.respond_to?(:add_available_column)
# Method to add a column to the +available_columns+ that isn't provided by the core.
def add_available_column(column)
self.available_columns

Answer 3

Also, it would be cool, if the column "Spent time" was sortable.
After looking up the produced SQL, I just implemented the sortable feature this in this way:
base.add_available_column(QueryColumn.new(:spent_hours,
:sortable => "(select sum(hours) from time_entries where time_entries.issue_id = t0_r0)")
)
Replace the respective line. I just hope the issue_id column's name is always "t0_r0" ...
PS: You can find lots of examples in app/models/query.rb lines 122++
2-Digits Problem:
Unfortunatly, I had to hack one of the core files: app/helpers/queries_helper.rb
Around line 44, change this:
when 'Fixnum', 'Float'
if column.name == :done_ratio
progress_bar(value, :width => '80px')
else
value.to_s
end
into:
when 'Fixnum', 'Float'
if column.name == :done_ratio
progress_bar(value, :width => '80px')
elsif column.name == :spent_hours
sprintf "%.2f", value
else
value.to_s
end
EDIT: Using a patch instead manipulating the source Recently, we did an update of the redmine system, so the above mentioned Fix also was removed.
This time, we decided to implement that as a patch.
Open up any plugin (We created a plugin for our monkey-patch changes on core). open up vendor/plugins/redmine_YOURPLUGIN/app/helpers/queries_helper.rb
module QueriesHelper
def new_column_content(column, issue)
value = column.value(issue)
if value.class.name == "Float" and column.name == :spent_hours
sprintf "%.2f", value
else
__column_content(column, issue)
end
end
alias_method :__column_content, :column_content
alias_method :column_content, :new_column_content
end

Answer 4

This feature build in from 1.4.0 version

Answer 5

by using AgileDwarf plugin. You can have spent time & you can say for what you spent this time (developement - design -...)

Answer 6

Since no one answered, I just poked the source until it yielded results. Then I started a blog to explain how I did it.
Add spent time column to default issues list in Redmine