This screen allow you to edit task properties. Depending upon this task type and some of its properties, you will be able to edit some or all of available shown fields.

A task can be of either one of those types:

Working task

A working task allows to schedule some time for acting on a project. It will be affected to one or more people. You have to set its begin and end scheduled dates.

You can edit the task state, which will automatically positionned to 'Running' as soon as a first timetrack entry is associated to it (and the task was in 'Pre' state).

then you have to give a parent to this task, the parent would be a task, a project or a TUTOS user. If this task's parent is another task, then the parent task becomes a logical task.

Each task is associated three differents volumes: the planned volume, the volume done and the volume todo. The aim of those volumes is to be able to know if the state takes exactly the planned duration or not.

Task volumes

The planned volume won't be editable as soon as the task is running.

The 'volume done' is the sum of timetrack entries volumes associated to this task and its (optionnal) subtasks. When editing this value, a new timetrack entry is automatically created.

The volume todo is the difference between the planned volume and the volume done, and thus is a calculated value. But, to report any error on schedule (or effective working time), you can also edit this field when task is running. Then while calculating completion and displaying volume sums, the volume will be the sum of volume done and volume todo.

Logical task

A logical task allows you to organize your project schedule in subparts, and some of its properties (dates, volumes, state) are deduced from the subtasks, following this scheme:

Schedule

Showed dates are the first beginning date of non logical subtasks, and last end date of same tasks.

Task volumes

'Volume' is the planned one, and is the sum of non-logical subtasks planned.

Volume done is the sum of volumes reported on timetrack entries associated to this task and its subtasks.

State

The state of a logical task is 'pre' when all the subtasks are in the 'pre' state, 'finished' when all the subtasks are 'finished', 'overdue' when at least one of the subtasks is 'overdue'.

All the other cases lead to a 'running' logical task.

Milestone

A Milestone is a task allowing you to mark a date on your project schedule. Thus it has no duration, and no end date. Plus you don't have to set volumes to a milestone.