Bulk edit time estimates
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Vasil Enchev
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Bulk Time Estimates are live
This is now in Production for everyone.
What you can do
Select multiple tasks in List view, choose Time Estimate from the bulk action toolbar, and enter one value. The estimate is applied to every selected task in one action.
Good to know
The new value overwrites the estimate already on each selected task. Tasks in Spaces where Time Estimates is turned off are skipped.
How to try it
Select a few tasks in List view and choose Time Estimate from the bulk action toolbar. That is it.
Jackson James
Vasil Enchev When duplicating tasks, will "Time estimates" now be one of the checkbox options for carrying over time estimates into duplicated tasks?
Currently, duplicating a task loses the time estimates if you try and customise what gets duplicated.
Ethan Whitted
Vasil Enchev Yay!!! Thank you for this!
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Laura Bertizlian
Vasil Enchev Thanks for the update! I use Chrome and I'm not seeing this option available in my workspace. Do you know why that might be?
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Kelley Brubaker
Vasil Enchev thank you!!!
Vasil Enchev
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Building now. 🎉
Select your tasks, type one estimate, it applies to all of them. Roughly 2 to 3 weeks before it reaches Workspaces.
First cut sets the task total and overwrites whatever is there.
Nathaniel Cassidy
How is this still not possible?
Vasil Enchev
It is being built right now. It lands in the bulk action toolbar alongside Dates and Priority: select your tasks, type one estimate, and it applies to all of them. Expect it in Workspaces in roughly 2 to 3 weeks.
Two things worth knowing about the first version. The value overwrites whatever estimate a task already has, and tasks in a Space where Time Estimates is switched off get skipped, with a count telling you how many.
Does overwrite cover what you need, or are you usually trying to add time on top of an estimate that is already there?
Natalie Williams
Vasil Enchev, the time estimate field no longer allows navigation with the arrow keys. Was this an intentional update? If so, what's the reasoning?
Vasil Enchev
Which arrow-key behaviour are you missing? Were you stepping the value up and down, or moving the cursor inside the field? Knowing what it did for you before helps us tell a deliberate change from something we broke. 👀
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Joe Tripi
keyboard first - but ideally, neither! Ideally you put the time in and it just applies it without a button or a keyboard confirmation. If you delete, it deletes it. Kind of like typing this message right now - i don't need to hit enter after every tap of the keyboard
Vasil Enchev
Worth splitting the two. In the bulk action toolbar there is no separate save step to remove: you pick the field you want to set, type the hours, and it applies to your selection.
The single-task field is the one still open. When you say deleting should just delete, do you mean clearing the estimate with nothing to confirm it? And what should happen if you type a value and then click away without finishing?
Jeter
Option A
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Laura Bertizlian
Option B
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Tania Contrucci
Option A
Marlé Du Plooy
Option A
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Kristen Huber
Definitely option b. If you enter the wrong time you can still edit and delete it so I don’t know why the buttons would be necessary
Nick Jones
Option A, I imagine B potentially causing unnecessary notifications sent to assignees.
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