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I have a request to track activities in hours instead of minutes. Using the Word Replacement capability, it was fairly easy to change the screen items over to hours. However, you can only enter integers into that field.

I've gone ahead and tried to just alter the table, changing duration from INT to FLOAT to see if that was an easy fix - but it appears that the underlying code is still expecting an INT and maintains the error.

I know in the past, CiviCRM used to have hour and minute fields. Could it be possible to have that field changed to a float and remove the restriction for integers only? That way it would be easy to have it as hours or minutes.

The problem is that they want to put in 4.5 for 4 and a half hours or 4.25 for 4 and a quarter. However, there seems to be quite a bit of code in the screen handlers to make sure that only integers are entered. I'm just going to offer to change their reports to divide the total number of minutes by 60 to give them their hours.