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Time Recording: «Total» Rounding
“Total Rounding” rounds worktime totals to the given “multiple of X minutes”, where X is either of 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60.
• It has the same three rounding modes as “Time rounding on «Punch now»”:
“Round up”, “Round down”, and “Round” (which rounds up or down to the nearest value using mode “round half up”).
• Configuration changes are applied to all existing data.
That is, when you enable this feature, all previously added entries will use these rules for total calculation right away.
Mode 1 example: Independent rounding of each summary
→ Checkbox “Use for calculations & aggregrations” is unticked
• Two work units at 1 minute each are both rounded up to “5 minutes total”
• The day's grand total (which is actually “2 minutes”) is also rounded up to “5 minutes”.
• Pro: each summary is rounded independently of other summaries, resulting in values closest to the actual worktime totals.
• Con: the values in the “Total” column might look inconsistent (as in “why does 5 plus 5 result in 5, it should be 10?”).
Mode 2 example: Day total only
→ Checkbox “Use for calculations & aggregrations” is ticked, with option “Apply to: Day”
• The individual work units show their actual worktime total.
• Only the day total is rounded, on both “single day” and “multi day” reports.
Mode 3 example: Work unit totals are rounded and used for aggregation
→ Checkbox “Use for calculations & aggregrations” is ticked, with option “Apply to: Work unit & Day”
• As with mode 1, the individual work unit totals are rounded up (from 1 minute each to 5 minutes each).
• In contrast to mode 1, the day total is calculated using “sum of all rounded work time totals”, i.e. “5 + 5 = 10”.
• Pro: the day's summary follows the work units' summary.
• Con: the day's summary can be inconsistent with the effective worktime total;
in this example, we've only been on clock for 2 minutes, but the grand total shows 10 minutes.
More remarks
• Hourly rate and “amount” calculation (shown as “Amt” column in the second screenshot of each example):
- With mode 1, amounts are calculated using the actual worktime totals, independent of time rounding.
- With aggregation modes 2 and 3, amounts are calculated using the rounded worktime totals.
