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I am not sure of what you are trying to achieve?
Adding a field called duration to an activity can be done using custom data, which you can then display on a report. I am not familiar with the Reports yet, so I do not know if it makes sense there to have a template called Activity.php. In general Activity.php would refer to the script (the PHP program) and Activitiy.tpl to the (Smarty) template.
Erik

I've got it nailed down and duration is included in the reports now.
thanks - Duane

When Adding a 'New Activity' to a Contact, the input form provides a field called 'duration' where minutes of duration of the activity can be tracked.  We plan on using this to track Volunteer time but there was no report that contained the data.  The fix is simple.  Here is what you do.
Locate file activity.php
mine was here: administrator/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Report/form/Activity.php

I duplicated this file as an archive in case of a problem, and then edited the original.

Search for the FIRST instance of 'Activity Date'
you will see two lines:
     array( 'title'      => ts( 'Activity Date'),
              'default'    => true ),

Immediately below these two lines I inserted this brief block of code:

       'duration'=>
            array( 'title'      => ts( 'Duration - Minutes'),
                     'default'    => true ),

save the file make sure it is called Activity.php, then you will need to open the template and activate the field 'Duration - Minutes' that now appears.  I haven't tested it in all the iterations-print/pdf/csv but the CSV works and we'll be able to track time on our volunteers now.
that's it.  good luck - Duane