question Time Duration on Forms in App Engine forum

Time Duration on Forms

mclaug3 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:00:40 GMT

Is there any way to have a field on a form where it adds multiple time duration fields together? For example: I'd like to be able to do the following:

Field: Duration #1 (data manually entered on form by user)

Field: Duration #2 (data manually entered on form by user)

Field: Duration #3 (data manually entered on form by user)

I'd like a Read-Only 'running total' field that adds all of the data in the above fields to show the total duration spent on the task. I'm not interested in any graphs or widget, etc. I just want raw data added together for user tracking on the form itself.

Re: Time Duration on Forms

Dr Atul G- LNG — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:13:17 GMT

Hi @mclaug3

Not sure what is your exact use case, but you can use

- Time worked Field Type

- You can create Metric on state field

Bcz , if you want to track time, how many filed you will create, it will be alot customization.

Re: Time Duration on Forms

mclaug3 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:22:09 GMT

When you say 'Time worked' field type- are you referencing a 'time' field type? I dont have a 'time worked' field available in my application.

Regarding creating the metric for this- do you know of any video or docs that show how to do this?

Use case is just a simple tracker for the user to manually enter amount of time on tasks via different entries and be able to see the total time added up.

Re: Time Duration on Forms

Dr Atul G- LNG — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:01:45 GMT

Hi @mclaug3

When you say 'Time worked' field type- are you referencing a 'time' field type? I dont have a 'time worked' field available in my application.

Atul: Yes, you can create a new field and add in your application.

Below reference from Incident table:

Regarding creating the metric for this- do you know of any video or docs that show how to do this?

Atul: https://youtu.be/a5BVxkQP2oM