Properly accumulate time allotted to recurring tasks with a specific # of occurrences for a given project
Currently, "Time required for project" is calculated based on the "Time required for the task" inputs for the subtasks under the given project. This is a great feature, and let's me really get a big picture feel of how long a project will take.
However, I have some projects, such as "Read Textbook," which I want to break up by putting a "Read 10 pages" recurring task underneath, and setting it to repeat X number of times based on my reading rate. Let's say I can read 10 pages in 30 minutes, and Textbook is 100 pages long, I would want to set task "Read 10 pages" to recur 10 times, and each recurrence would have the Time required set to 30 minutes. Ideally, the project "Read Textbook" would account for all of these occurrences and accumulate the time as time required for project (in addition to any other subtasks, such as 'buy book,' 'write chapter summary' or whatever). Currently it doesn't seem to do that. It looks like "Read Textbook" will only take 30 minutes, when in fact, I would think that it should be calculated to 300 minutes because the 30 minute task will repeat 10 times.
It seems like a straightforward thing to implement and would really make for a powerful project planning feature - especially for "book type" projects
Thanks!
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Konrad commented
Along the same lines, please compute the % complete by taking into account how many of the occurrences have been checked off