Via the invoice list, you can access all invoices you have created and can edit certain data or revoke complete invoices. This chapter also explains some implications of JIRA oprations on issues where work logs have already been charged.
Invoice List
In the invoice list, you can
- search for invoices
- view all invoices,
- view invoice summary and details (including the option to download data),
- edit invoices
- revoke invoices.
Go to
ictime - Reporting & Accounting - Accounting
By default, the list shows all invoices. You can filter the list by project, search by invoice number and filter by date range:
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The list shows the following information:
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| Field | Description | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Name | A name that helps you to identify this invoice. | |
| Date | Invoice date you have set when creating/editing the invoice. | Not necessarily the creation date. |
| Invoice No. | Invoice number you have set when creating/editing the invoice. | |
| Billed Sum | Sum that has been or will be charged in the real involice to the customer (might not be the same like the sum from ictime) | optional |
| Text | Text with further information for this invoice. | optional |
| Comment | Additional comment (e.g. to explain why there is a difference between the result from ictime and the billed sum) | optional |
The following operations are available:
| Icon | Action | Description | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| View | View invoice details (work logs and financial summary for this invoice), download data as .xls file. | You can also view the details by clicking on the invoice name. |
 | Edit | Edit "meta data" of the invoice like name, date, text etc. | You can't edit the work logs included in the invoice. |
| Revoke | Delete invoice and "release" work logs again (work logs are in status "not charged" again) |
View Invoice (Work Log Details & Financial Summary)
To view the details of an invoice, i.e. all work logs included as well as the financial summary, click on the respective
icon or click on the invoice name. Display - work log details and summary - and options are the same like for any report (see Reports: Work Log Details and Reports: Financial Summary). However, the data is stored in a different place to ensure that deleting issues or work logs in JIRA can never affect an existing invoice (see below).
Please note that for technical reasons, longer work log descriptions are reduced to max. 255 characters for the stored invoice data. This limit does not affect the original work log data which remains unchanged.
Download Work Log Details and Financial Summary
If you want to download details and summary of the report, you can do that before you finally create the "invoice", or you can do it here from the view mode of an invoice.
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Edit Invoice
To edit an invoice, click on the edit icon:
You can edit all data, but you can't change the work log entries that are part of this invoice. If you require to change work log entries, you need to revoke the invoice and create a new one (see below).
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Revoke Invoice
You can revoke any invoice. Revoking an invoice means that the invoice itself is deleted and all time entries belonging to the invoice are set to status "not charged" again.
Go to the accounting list
ictime -> Reporting & Accounting -> Reporting
and click the link "revoke" for the invoice you want to revoke.
After confirming the action, the invoice will be deleted and all work logs included in this invoice will be in status "not charged" again.
Implications of Deleting Issues or Work Logs in JIRA
Deleting Issues
If you delete an issue in JIRA, all work logs are deleted in JIRA, too. ictime can't change this JIRA behaviour. In fact, additional information for a work log from the ictime database is not deleted, but no longer accessible in normal ictime reports or timesheets, as the work log is the base entity where all additional ictime information points to.
When creating on invoice in ictime, we are saving some work log information in a completely separate database table. That means that summary and details for an invoice do never change, as they are taken from this table and we are not relying on JIRA work logs any longer. That means that deleting issues does not have any implications for existing invoices. However, you will have the situation that a work log being part of an invoice does not longer exist in the (JIRA) work logs, which might be considered confusing.
Deleting Work Logs
It is not possible to delete work logs that have been invoiced (charged) via functionality that ictime provides. However, ictime can't control functionality to delete work logs that JIRA provides, like the option to delete complete issues with all their work logs in JIRA.
If you delete a work log that had been charged, there will be no impact on existing invoices, as work log detail data for invoices had been saved separately and therefore is not taken from the JIRA work log enty, but from a different place, like described above. However, you will have the situation that a work log being part of an invoice does not longer exist in the (JIRA) work logs, which might be considered confusing.
Revoking (Undoing) an Invoice
If you "undo" an invoice, status of all work logs is once again set to "not charged".
However, if work logs had been deleted (or issues with work logs had been deleted) in the meantime, they will be finally lost.