Rebalance a range to target proportions

How-to guide

mp balance rewrites the working days of a range so the given projects hold the requested shares of the range’s target hours. Every day ends up exactly at its target; any other project’s hours on those days are cleared. Shares must add up to 100.

Two layouts:

• whole-days (default): consecutive whole days per project, X first then Y; only the day where a quota ends is split.
• every-day: every single day is split by the shares (4.8 h / 3.2 h for 60/40, rounded to quarter hours so that the totals stay exact).

Tip

Always preview first. The dry run prints each day’s split and the resulting totals.

Ask your assistant

For the first two weeks of September I want 60% NovaLabs and 40% administration. Show me the plan.

mp_balance {year: 2026, month: 9, range: {from: "2026-09-01", to: "2026-09-12"}, slots: [{project: {order: "900140", attendanceType: "0081"}, share: 60}, {project: {attendanceType: "0077"}, share: 40}], dryRun: true}

returns the per-day plan. Add mode: "every-day" to split each day instead. Without dryRun it writes and returns the resulting mp_stats.

Terminal

# 10 working days × 8h = 80h → 48h + 32h, whole days
xflow-timesheet mp balance 2026-09 --range 2026-09-01..2026-09-12 \
  --slot order=900140,attendance=0081:60% \
  --slot attendance=0077:40% --dry-run

Dry run — nothing written. Balance 2026-09-01..2026-09-12 (80h target), mode whole-days:

date        target  order 900140 · type 0081  type 0077  total
2026-09-01  8       8                          0          8
…
2026-09-09  8       0                          8          8
…
project                    hours  share
order 900140 · type 0081   48     60%
type 0077                  32     40%

# same shares, every day split 60/40
xflow-timesheet mp balance 2026-09 --range 2026-09-01..2026-09-12 \
  --slot order=900140,attendance=0081:60% --slot attendance=0077:40% --mode every-day