To my knowledge, the elapsed time between going from open to closed is
not tracked by RTC, and therefore has no impact on the gantt chart. The
only numbers that are used are the ones the user enters, in the
following order (from low to high):
- user specified estimate
- which is overridden by user specified revised estimate
- which is overridden by user specified time spent (or time left, which
is then subtracted from the estimate). The new "user time sheets" are a
more fine-grained way of recording time spent.

At least this used to be true ... things may have changed without my
having been informed (:-).

Cheers,
Geoff


On 3/24/2011 7:23 PM, carlosbu wrote:

Hi all,

Some one knows How duration is calculated for displaying the task bar
for a work item on gantt chart view?

In empiric works I noted that it uses estimates for work items opened
and in progress, and for work items closed it uses the elapsed time
between open and close states. This is correct?

I've faced situations that the users going from open to closed
directly, but They fill the effort correctly. In this situation the
task bar display a "wrong"result disturbing whole plan.

Someone knows if is possible to consider the time spent instead of
elapsed time between open and close?