Activity types are used to further classify the work you are doing in a structured way, they should represent typical categories of work in your company. By representing typical types of work, they also might be used as base to define different rates (prices) for work within a project (see Project Team Price Lists).
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Create Activity Type
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By default, ictime requires that a user chooses an activity types when logging work. You can deactivate this feature, see below. |
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To create a new activity type, click on the button "Create activity ytpe".
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| Name | Name for the activity type. Will be displayed in dropdowns, reports etc. | Mandatory. |
| Description | Optional description for the activity type. Only used here. | |
| Mapping ID | Optional external mapping ID, e.g. to map activity types to a respective entity in an external system (like an ERP system). | Currently not used. |
| Mapping ID Description | Optional name or description for the external mapping ID. | Currently not used. |
| Rounding Rule | Optional select a Rounding Rule to be applied, if project settings define usage of activity type specific rounding rules | Optional |
| Disabled | Only available in edit mode |
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We recommend to use activity types like "specification", "design", "implementation", "testing", "project management" etc. for reporting purposes. This gives additional information on the distribution of time to the different typical activities required to resolve your tasks/do your projects and you can also use such categories to differentiate prices. |
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To avoid confusion, you should never change the meaning of the name of an activity type that has already been used. There is no versioning for the name, so the change would affect all existing work logs that have not been charged yet. |
Starting from icTime 5.8.3.5 the new property "disabled" has been introduced.
You can disable any Activity regardless of the current usage of the Activity.
Consequences of disabling used Activities
Work logs having a disabled Activity assigned will result in showing up in the Warnings tab in the reporting screen of icTime.
Editing a work log with disabled Activity
Editing a work log using a disabled Activity is still possible. The disabled Activity is still shown in the Activities dropdown, but will show up with a question mark as indicator, that the corresponding Activity is not any longer enabled.
Creating new work logs with disabled Activity
Creating a new work log from the Issue operations menu will NOT show up any longer disabled Activities. In case you resume a work log having a disabled Activity assigned will not work.
Fix broken work logs
Work logs having a disabled Activity assigned will show up in the reporting in the warnings tab. Disabled Activites will not show up in the fix work log dialog. If you want to get rid of the warning you need to assign a new valid Activity.
Invoicing / Invoice cancellation for work logs with disabled Activity and bringing into account again
It is possible to cancel any existing invoice including a work log with disabled Activities.
It is possible to bring the work log with the disabled Activity into account again. You just need to ignore the warning regarding the disabled (non valid) Activity.
Delete Activity Types
You can only delete activity types
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