nikolassv
Add grouping to the output of list
When running the list command it would be useful to have the option to group the output by project and/or description and provide totals for each group.
An example output could be:
2025-02-10 Project A 5h 00m 09:00 10:00 task A Project A 1h 00m 10:00 13:00 task B Project A 3h 00m 15:00 16:00 task A Project A 1h 00m
Project B 4h 30m 13:00 14:30 task A Project B 1h 30m 13:00 14:30 task B Project B 1h 30m 13:00 14:30 task A Project B 1h 30m
Grouping by task and project could output
2025-02-10 Project A taskA 2h 00m 09:00 10:00 task A Project A 1h 00m 15:00 16:00 task A Project A 1h 00m
Project A taskB 3h 00m 10:00 13:00 task B Project A 3h 00m
Project B task A 3h 00m 13:00 14:30 task A Project B 1h 30m 13:00 14:30 task A Project B 1h 30m
Project B task B 1h 30m 13:00 14:30 task B Project B 1h 30m
I suggest adding the following flags --group_project - gp --group_description -gd
This differs because the report functionality provides totals for each project calculated over the date range provided.
In organisations where you have to provide a day by day breakdown of time this is not useful.
Perhaps the functionality I suggested should be part of the report function though, maybe via a --daily flag?
Ok, I see how this would be useful. It would be a nice enhancement for the report subcommand. If the user defines a time range which spans over several days and sets the --daily flag it would give a report for each individual day. In every other case it would work like before.
Upon further thought, I am going to propose that we add a --group option which accepts combinations of the following characters: p - project d - description c - calendar (date)
The combination and order determines what grouping is applied to the report action.
some examples are (with poorly formatted outputs): bartib report -g cpd this would generate a report showing the total duration for descriptions in projects in days
2025-02-10 2h 00m
Project B 2h 00m
task A 1h 00m
task B 1h 00m
2025-02-11 2h 00m
Project B 2h 00m
task A 1h 00m
task B 1h 00m
bartib report -g dpc
task A 2h 00m
Project A 2h 00m
2025-02-10 1h 00m
2025-02-11 1h 00m
Project B 2h 00m
2025-02-10 1h 00m
2025-02-11 1h 00m
task B 2h 00m
Project A 2h 00m
2025-02-10 1h 00m
2025-02-11 1h 00m
Project B 2h 00m
2025-02-10 1h 00m
2025-02-11 1h 00m
The existing report functionality is the equivalent of the command below (This could be left as the default functionality): bartib report -g pd
This looks nice. I think it could work very well like this. If you would like to implement this, I would be happy to accept a pull request.
I have a working version of this, I just need to tidy it up and implement some error handling and I will issue a PR