It's very much needed to know the total cost of every resource in order to write contracts! But this currently can only be calculated from task table, which is a labor work (violates the basic principle of using computer for project management, to make things easier to do;)

Currently resource view is like this:
Name	Type	Group	Email	Cost
Weiwu	Work	Design	ww@b.c	50

1) When manager take a look at this, he would assume this 'cost' is the cost of this person in this project, because that is what he means when he usually say 'cost'; when he wish to say the cost per hour, he usually use the word 'rate';
2) a real 'cost' field for the cost of the person in the project is not shown in this view, which is important in making a contract.

Expected view for resource should be like this:

Name	Type	Group	Email	Rate	Time	Cost
Weiwu	Work	Design	ww@b.c	50	4d	1600

That's what I prefer to see and hope other project managers thinks the same:)

Now I have asked my colleague to spend 3 hours calculating the per-person cost for the project at hand, he has to do this again if any change is made in the plan. I do wish planner is able to do this. By the way, thanks for provided a project management tool in Gnome! I likes it especially for the gantt chart (but it happen to also be a trouble maker as described in #499090

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