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Is there a reason why the time-tracking widget doesn't allow you to select groups or sub-tasks?
We use the 'Group > Project > Task > Sub-task' hierarchy, but the widget doesn't cope with this very well - and what our team sees in the widget isn't therefore what they see on the site.
I’m
confused
Why does the time tracker widget not show groups and sub-tasks?
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EMPLOYEE
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The widget just operates in "All Groups" mode and shows tasks without hierarchy right now - for simplicity. You can still see all your tasks.Comment
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Ok. Are there any plans to change this?
Operating in 'all groups' mode I understand (although a drop-down to choose a group would be lovely!), but by merging all tasks and sub-tasks you lose the *context* of the sub-tasks - i.e., some sub-tasks only make sense when viewed within the context of their parent task.
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Our plans depend on clients feedback. So far we didn't get many requests and are not working in this direction. But the widget is being updated (last big update was the auto-refresh functionality) and may have those features in the future.
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I guess then the right thing would be to email the team that designed Timy and suggest they build a version working with 5pm, since we do have an open API.
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good idea. thanks I will contact them.
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Thanks for your reply - fingers crossed I guess! -
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CHAMP
1I too think the widget would benefit from being able to filter by Group. I know I would certainly use it! -
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I’m
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1I would certainly request that a Group drop-down box be added to the Widget, since it makes plain logical sense to view your data the way it is structured. Otherwise, the "simplicity" of the Widget actually creates confusion.
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1I LOVE the Widget and it’s the feature that initially sold me on 5PM vs other project management software. But for it to work properly with our environment, we need to have the Groups show up on the widget. Otherwise, it becomes very confusing to know what Group I’m looking at.
I’ve tried different hierarchies for the data and the only thing that would solve this issue is to have a Group drop-down on the Widget along with the Projects and Task drop-down.
Thanks...
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
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I’m
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I would like to have the groups drop down option. i dont know how others are using it but for each client I find myself doing the same thing over and over.. so they all have the same task names... and hard to find which one i was working on. -
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1I think it would be an awesome feature to add groups and sub tasks to the time tracking widget.
We have our tasks organized by project > Task > Sub task, but when we have lots of sub tasks to a task, just tracking time on the task does not make sense. Also organizing it by group would make our system much simpler. -
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1I like this feature very much, yet, I agree, without subtasks it ́s less functional. Also strange, that you can see projects where there is no task assigned.
And it would be great if you wouldn ́t have to enter the time you have tracked but it would automatically enter this time below. So you can still change it, but if its allright you just have to press submit.-
The time is copied - rounded according to your settings. So you don't have to modify it you don't want to.
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1I would NEED this feature in order to use 5pm aswell. Where do I vote on the idea?
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You can vote on the top of this page...
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I’m
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we have created a new timetracker that links to 5pm and would love to find some people to kick the tires! As a Design Studio we needed better control on tasks and sub-tasks and did not really need a stopwatch as much as something that would show how many hours we entered for the day and week.
if you are interested in seeing it drop me an email at Chris@radi8creative.com and I will send you the link.-
I made a video demo of the app... http://youtu.be/LK7W-WKbdQU
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Our company are ALL in for the sub-task feature of the widget as well! However - the subtasks are there, they are just mixed in with the other tasks. This is not the best way of doing it, but is it possible that subtasks is simply shown by being moved in by a few clicks. Then you would immediately get the hierachy. -
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Just bumping this up... the topic was brought up two years ago
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We tried to keep our widget very simple.
So radi8 fits a more robust time tracking widget - using our API they could actually add tasks from the widget too.
Chris, we are also working on a new, better API. -
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i completely understand. Right now we only write time and notes back to the database. I wanted to make sure that our team was not making 1000s of tasks and that they used the notes section to explain what they were doing day to day. We created this because the 5pm widget had a big issue with clients/tasks/ etc.
for each project we start new.. we list out the major tasks and then bill to them. It might not be perfect yet but I will re-open the development in a month and see if we want to add tasks.
thanks for the feedback (and love).
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1I know this topic is rather dated, but as we had similar issues, coupled with a fast paced working environment where selecting from an exhaustive list just didn't work, i developed Circadio.
In Circadio you just enter a title, and start tracking, and you can fill out the description that will be used for the progress note as you progress. When you're ready, you can sync it to 5pm via an awesome search function. It supports fuzzy searching and acronyms. So if i wanted to sync tasks to Some Project > Some task > som sub task. I could just write "SP sub task" and the task i wanted would be on top of the list. Makes life a lot easier :)
https://getcircadio.com. Give it a spin! -
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