Dear David, I like this option to indeed become available. I think linking with Timesheets is the best option. This makes it easy to log and also easy to register. Only need to do this once. Hope this helped!

We have been asked to use serial numbers to support this. Since serial numbers at 7.0 are really lot numbers, we are in the middle of module development. The idea is 'start' records a starting timestamp and scanning a serial number records an ending timestamp. This is done for each work order. A pending work order is an amount of time removed from all items in that work order. This isn't fully developed yet though.

One potential workaround for the second element would be to add 3 more fields to the work order record: date_paused, date_unpaused, time_paused. Every time the work order is put on hold and then resumed, get the timestamp and append the difference to time_paused. Once completed, subtract time_paused from delay, which should necessarily be the larger value.

Once you're trying to account for multiple people's cumulative hours on the same operation though, it would have to be timesheets.