7pace Timetracker's Timesheet page
Filter by current project, iteration, or your items. On 7pace Timetracker's keyboard-optimized Timesheet page, use blue cells to add and submit time.
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Overview
The Timesheet page provides an alternate method of viewing, managing, and entering your work time details on a weekly basis. Time you've tracked displays with the work items associated with that time listed in rows, and the days of the week presented in columns. The design of the page allows you to view the work items you've tracked or entered time on during a given week, the level of effort assigned to PBIs, features, and epics, the total time you've tracked for all work items, as well as the total hours logged on a work item on a given day or for the current week. Like an Excel spreadsheet, each cell in the Timesheet table can contain single or multiple worklogs.
Timesheet Filters Bar
In an effort to optimize performance on the Timesheet page, some changes have been made to the original page filters to reduce page load time, starting with Timetracker 5.1. If the DevOps organization is large, it creates requests that take a long time for DevOps Services to get information on all projects and all Iterations within those projects and then all work items within those iterations. In order to see the View by This Week's Iterations option, please ensure that the Current Project filter is checked/enabled. This will show all iteration work items, but only for the current project. You can also filter by My Items Only.
All filters disabled - With no filters checked, the page will display only work items that you have already tracked time on during the selected week. Results will display on the page quickly, as only those work items on which you have tracked time will show.
Current project selected - With Current Project enabled, the results will show only items from the currently selected project (work items with time tracks from different projects will be filtered out). Therefore, page results may display even faster.
View by This Week's Iterations is ON - With this option enabled, the system will search for and add all active iterations and all work items of those iterations to the Timesheet results, in addition to building and processing its relations tree. This filter may slow page load time if you have a large project and a lot of active iterations/work items.
This filter is available only if the Current Project filter is checked.
My Items Only is selected - With this filter enabled, the system will filter out the previous request and will display work items that are assigned directly to you. This significantly reduces the number of work items and decreases the load time of the page.
This filter is available only if the Current Project filter is checked.
Show items from ... is enabled - With this option enabled, the page shows work items from previous weeks even if there are no tracks assigned to these items in the displayed week. This makes the process of filling your timesheet easier if you work on the same items for multiple weeks. Once enabled, you can choose to show items from 1 week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks prior to the current week.
Blue Highlighted Cells
You might notice that some cells within your timesheet are highlighted with a bold blue background. This means that during this period, the corresponding work item had an In progress state and was assigned to you, the current user. This makes it easy to add your time at the end of any given week (see number 17, below).
Rows highlighted with a light blue background indicates that there are items without worklogs during this week; they are displayed because the Show items from previous weeks option is enabled.
Add Time
You can add, edit, and delete (and even submit) time in a variety of ways on this page, which are outlined in more detail, below. Any changes or additions made on the Timesheet page are fully integrated with the rest of Timetracker and DevOps Server/DevOps Services.
Keyboard Optimization
The Timesheet page is also keyboard-optimized. Just by using the Tab, Enter, and arrow keys on your keyboard, you can navigate everywhere within the timesheet, and add or edit your time. For additional and more detailed information on Keyboard Shortcuts and on the Timesheet page in general, please scroll below.
Timesheet View
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1 | Add Time Clicking on this opens the Add Time dialog box, which can be configured in different modes: Timeframe, Duration or Mixed mode. An administrator can configure different modes on your behalf under Settings > Rules. |
2 | Date range of the current week
If you are viewing a week that is not the current one, the Current Week link is enabled. |
3 | +/- You can expand or collapse the items that display on the page by one level for a more concise or more detailed view. |
4 | Current Project Filters the page results to the current project only. Enabling this allows you to also view and/or select the selections View by This Week's Iterations (choose On or Off) and when you turn View by This Week's Iterations to On, you also have the option to enable the filter My Items Only. |
5 | View by This Week's Iterations Turning this On filters the page by the current week's iterations. This will show all iteration work items for the current project. This action also displays the My Items Only checkbox. If View by This Week's Iterations is off, then only your items with worklogs remain. |
6 | My Items Only With this On, the page is filtered by current project, By Iterations view and by items assigned to the user. You can then easily view and add your time to the items that have been assigned to you. With this selection turned Off, the page populates with the items assigned to the whole team. |
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The effort value assigned to PBIs, features, and epics. |
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The total time that you have tracked for the work item up until the present time. |
9 | The When you click this icon, the Add Time dialog box opens with the worklog details. Here, you can add, edit or delete worklogs and it fully integrates with the rest of Dev Ops Server/Services and 7pace Timetracker. If you make any changes, click the Save button to have those changes reflected on the timesheet. For single worklogs per work item ID per day, you can directly edit or delete a worklog in the table cell, similar to an Excel spreadsheet. Simply double-click within the cell and start typing the new time from your keyboard. To delete the worklog, go to that cell and press the Delete key from the keyboard.
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10 | The time that you tracked or added for the work item on that day. |
11 | The When you click this icon, the Add Time dialog box opens and displays the list of worklogs for that work item. The Add Time dialog box is unique to the Timesheet page. In this dialog box, you can view multiple worklogs, make worklogs as billable or non-billable, and add, edit or delete worklogs. Any changes made are reflected throughout the rest of DevOps Server/Services and 7pace Timetracker. If you make changes, click the Save button and these changes will be reflected on the page. |
12 | Bold blue cells Blue cells within the Timesheet table highlight Tasks, Bugs, User Stories and PBIs that are assigned to the current, logged-in user. It highlights only days when these items were In Progress (or a similar state, depending on your specific template). If your data and sprint backlog is in good shape, the user only has to fill in the blue cells at the end of the week.< |