Hello,
I'm trying to create a customized work item that is used to track a review process. We've added two new tabs to the work item to capture work that is done by two different people, a reviewer and an author. Both the reviewer and the author need to record their hours spent on the work item. I don't want to track estimates, just actual time spent.

The problem I'm running into is that fields of Time duration do not seem to save. If I use a time spent field, there's a validation issue and the value can't be saved. (That problem seems to be because the time spent field has no estimate to use for validation.) If I use a time estimates field, then the two time estimates fields are somehow linked, and when I try to record a value in the reviewer tab, the estimate field on the author tab is automatically updated.

I've also tried to create a customized attribute,  but the problem there is that only the duration type is available, and I cannot seem to get duration values to save and display in the web client. (I've not tested in the desk top client, but it's a moot point because our users prefer the web client.)

I've considered just creating a decimal field, but we're going to be linking to other project areas that might need to run reports on our numbers, so I don't want to create a solution that works for us but doesn't play completely well with the other project areas.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Ann