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How to store negative value in Duration field in RTC task??

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Pratima Rajput
(13●3) Jul 04 '16, 10:59 a.m.
 I want to store calculated negative value in one field of Duration datatype which can be negative.
Is it possible??

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Jul 04 '16, 1:04 p.m.
Just for interest's sake, what is the meaning of a negative duration?

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Ralph Schoon
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (64.6k●3●36●49) Jul 05 '16, 2:23 a.m.
As far as I can tell duration is a long value so you could get it negative. It just does not seem to make sense for me, why you would want that. I am not sure what the editor presentations and other calculations will do if the value is negative. It is certainly not designed and tested for this.

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Pratima Rajput
Jul 05 '16, 5:51 a.m.
 Actually I have created 1 attribute with Duration datatype in RTC WI. And I want to store calculated value in it which will be (Estimate time - Timespent). As if owner of Work item will estimate 4 hours and actually he needed 5 hours i.e.Timespent  then it will return negative value. In that case i wanted to show calculated negative value in New attribute.

Ralph Schoon
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Jul 05 '16, 5:57 a.m.
You are aware that the editor presentation would not allow you to save a work item where the time spent time is bigger than the estimate (or corrected estimate)? Since this is the case it would be pointless to have this as far as I know.

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