Update Actual Duration and Remaining Duration

Updating actual and remaining duration allows tracking time that has actually been spent from task start or has still been remained till task finish. CentriQS lets you use actual and remaining durations for monitoring employee performance, project progress or other goals.

Actual Duration

Enter Actual Duration Manually

You can enter actual duration manually into the ‘Actual’ field. By default when the task is in state ‘Created’, its ‘Actual’ field is disabled. In order to enable it, you need to change task state to ‘In Progress’.

Update Actual Duration Automatically

You can update actual duration automatically by clicking the ‘Update’ button. After you do this the system will automatically enter the value which is calculated as the difference between the current date & time and date & time when the task was set to state ‘In Progress’.

Remaining Duration

Enter Remaining Duration

You can enter remaining duration into the ‘Remain’ field. This field is also disabled for tasks in state ‘Created’, so before entering the remaining time you need to change state to ‘In Progress’.

Update Remaining Duration Automatically

Remaining duration can be updated automatically if ‘On Schedule’ mode is on. After you check the ‘On Schedule’ option the system will automatically enter the value which is calculated as the difference between estimated and actual duration.

Correlation between States and Remaining Duration

CentriQS automatically correlates task ‘State’ and ‘Remain’ value:

1. When you enter “0” into ‘Remain’ field, task state gets automatically changed to ‘Closed’.

2. When you change task state to ‘Closed’, the value in the ‘Remain’ field gets automatically changed to “0”.

3. When you change the value in the ‘Remain’ field from “0” to certain duration, task state gets automatically changed from ‘Closed’ to ‘In Progress’.

Actual and Remaining Duration of Parent Task