The page below describes the overview of the project, that was constructed gradually during the work on it in google summer of code 2007.

The vision of the Progress Reports project is to provide Chandler's users with an option to overview their tasks in a compressed manner, to track their progress, and to be able to report on it with minimal effort.

As the first step towards this functionality, that we hope might be already useful. It is important to define, what is the most reasonable and realistic set of functionalities to start with. We propose the following, and hope to hear advice and thoughts from people in the design list (updated based on advice received):

• In the intial stage Report will comprise summary of information for the last week
• An item of kind Note will be created on Event of /report input in the Quick Entry field.
• The Note item's body will include textual information of the following to track the happenings of last week:
• The items for the report will be taken from the currently selected collection by default.
• The titles of the relevant items will be listed
  • NEW ITEMS (#items)
    • items that were created (received) during the last week (
      • including deleted items ?
      • including items that were moved to other collections ?
  • ACHIEVEMENTS (#items)
    • items that received the triage status of DONE during the last week
  • FOCUS TRANSITION OUT (#items)
    • items that got out of focus during the last week:
      • NOW items that were changed to LATER
      • NOW items that were deleted
  • FOCUS TRANSITION IN (#items)
    • LATER or DONE items (a week ago) that got the status NOW during the last week
    • deleted items that were restored with the status NOW during the last week
    • items that were READ and became UNREAD during the last week
  • PERSISTENT ITEMS (NOW) (#items)
    • items that were in the status NOW a week ago and are still in the status of NOW
  • PERSISTENT ITEMS (LATER) (#items)
    • items that were in the status LATER a week ago and are still in the status of LATER
  • UPDATED ITEMS (#items)
    • items that their body was edited during the report time period. deleted items not presented.

Further information on the project may be found in VeraSheinmanNotes

-- VeraSheinman - 09 Jun 2007