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ictime enhances existing JIRA time tracking options

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with many features that make time tracking more powerful, efficient and convenient and it adds flexible reporting and accounting capabilities.

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For the full documentation of JIRA time tracking featuresHowever, ictime still writes JIRA work logs in the JIRA database and also uses parts of the basic time tracking logic from JIRA. For documentation of JIRA default time tracking, please refer to http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Logging+Work+on+an+Issue and http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Time+Tracking.

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  • configure global teams and price lists
  • enable/disable and configure activity types
  • enable/disable and configure rounding rules

For details, see Configure Global Teams & Price ListsConfigure Activity TypesConfigure Rounding Rules.

Configure Projects

  • define status
  • define currency
  • choose rounding rule
  • create teams & price lists and/or assign global teams
  • define accounting references
  • define approval managers
  • select project activity types, use all or deactivate activity types

For details, see Project Configuration.

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  • log work as "time spent" or as time span "from-to"
  • "activity type" option for work logs
  • "no charge" option for work logs
  • "corrected result" option for work logs
  • resume an existing work log with one click
  • resume, edit or delete  last work log directly from the time tracking panel
  • additional "My Work Log (ictime)" tab with only my work logs displayed on issue level (only my work logs or all work logs, depending on permissions)
  • log work directly from navigation bar
  • access your recent work logs directly from the ictime navigation in thze JIRA navigation bar

For details, see User Manual.

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Timesheet

  • user timesheet with filters by project, issue, component, version, activity type, issue status, approval status and date
  • list view, structured view and date grid
  • edit, delete, resume or create new work log directly from user timesheet
  • log work for any issue directly from timesheet
  • log work for other users (if you have respective permissions)
  • move work logs to other issues of the same project
  • work on issues directly from your timesheet

For details, see My Timesheet.

Approval

  • make work log approval a recommended an optional or mandatory requirement for accounting
  • approve work logs on work log or issue level
  • define one or more approval managers per project

For details, see Approval.

Reporting

  • search /filter and generate reports by project, issue, JIRA filter, user, activity type, component, version, date range, issues status, work log status, work log approval status to generate reports
  • list view and structured view
  • work log details
  • financial summarysummary & analysis (team view and user view)
  • edit and delete work logs of a report
  • work on issues directly from any report
  • move work logs to other issues of the same project
  • configure columns displayed (also for export)
  • export reports in .xls format
  • add JIRA custom fields to an export
  • use any report as base for billingcharging work logs

For details, see Reporting.

Accounting (

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Charge Work Logs)

  • create global teams and price lists and/or define different teams with different price lists per project
  • define price per team or per team and activity type
  • validity period for price lists allows for price changes within the project duration
  • define rounding rules per project in order to round up/down and  to charge minimum time units
  • define currency per project
  • add optional accounting information per project (customer, account, …)
  • exclude work log positions of a report from your "bill"being charged
  • set status of time entries work logs to status "charged" as part of the billing accounting process
  • create "pro-forma" accounts/invoices with reference to an external invoice
  • access "invoicesaccounts" and export details as Excel-compatible file
  • revoke "invoicesaccounts" and set all work logs to "not charged" again

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For details, see Planning.

Permissions

  • flexible access control access to ictime features in detail , based on JIRA group levelgroups
  • additional workaround to hide JIRA time tracking data from users

For details, see Configure Permissions.