Is it possible to delete non-worked days from chronologie?

[Loïs LE BRAS]

Hi,

I have read some posts of people asking the same functionality but I want to be sure I didn't miss something to solve this, I explain.

I am working on chronologie to plan my project. I have a list of tasks, one after the other with estimated work time in days. But the calendar displays the weekends and we are not working these days. 

Therefore, this is VERY inconvenient because I have to change all my tasks estimation to bypass the weekends. I could imagine doing that but the bigger problem is that if I want to reschedule my tasks, I need to change again the estimations of EVERY task moved according if it is now scheduled on a weekend or not...

Actually, if I can't delete weekends from chronologie, I don't know how people can use this.. I am missing something to work correctly with chronologie? 

[Loïs LE BRAS · Accepted solution]

Ok I can see your point of view.

On my side, when I plan tasks for a project I add extra-time in every task (20% for example) to take "interruptions" into account. 

Therefore, I have an estimated time for every task and I want to know easily when my project will end after all these tasks : 

You can see on the calendar that my end date estimation is false because of the non-worked days and I as explained previously I have to modify all my tasks accordingly and cannot easily apply new changes later.

Thank you for your answer anyway, I think it would be a great improvement in the future !..

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Loïs LE BRAS and welcome to the Community!

I am not sure what you mean by chronologie, but I assume you are referring to the timeline view in Jira?

If so, it's important to realise that the estimation (or effort) needed to complete a task and its duration (the time between start and due date) are intentionally designed as different things. In reality, people completing work - unfortunately - work on multiple things at the same time, get distracted by calls, emails and other interruptions during their work or get blocked when something they need appears to be missing when they need it. And so, work that is estimated to take e.g. 3 days may in reality take 2 full weeks from start to finish.

Use the original estimate field to indicate the expected amount of actual work and the start/due dates (or the timeline) for the duration. Decoupling those should solve your problem, since it removes to update the estimation field anymore.

The timeline itself does not have an option to hide the weekends.

Hope this helps!