The project time booking offers the user the possibility to allocate his working time to certain projects like with a stopwatch. It differs from the menu item Record project time, among other things, in that the booking does not have to be recorded retrospectively, but project times can be booked live to projects using the Start / Stop function.
In the following you will see the project time booking screen directly after calling up the menu item.
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As an alternative to the project selection methods shown in the following, it is also possible to directly select projects by entering (parts of) the name/short name or codes.
If the entered text cannot be clearly assigned to a project, a list of all projects corresponding to the input is displayed.
First a project must be selected. By clicking on the button with 3 points the following list view of the created projects appears:
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In the list view shown here, the projects can be searched according to the respective criteria in the Name, Code, or Short Name field. In the dropdown field Sorted by... you can decide whether the projects should be sorted alphabetically by name, short name or code. The dropdown field below is used to select the structure - however, since there is usually only one structure anyway, no changes usually have to be made here.
If you switch to the Hierarchical View, only the main projects without their subprojects are visible in the menu tree for the time being.
If - as shown on the screenshot - the menu tree is opened completely, the subprojects also appear under the parent projects.
A tick in this checkbox means that the project is declared as billable, which can also be displayed / evaluated later in the project overview. Whether the check mark can be set for the respective projects or whether it is set by default is determined when the project is newly created.
Basically, projects can be distinguished by their chargeability: Projects that can be passed on to third parties, i.e. have a profitable effect, can be offset. Internal projects (e.g.: training of new employees, maintenance of IT equipment,...) only concern your own company and are therefore not chargeable.
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The field framed in red can be used to describe in more detail how the time to be recorded is used in order to obtain an even better overview of the work performed during the course of the project.
Once a project has been selected, the stopwatch can be started by clicking on the green Start button, which measures the time and assigns it to the project.
The project time recording is now running. This can be seen by the fact that the Start button is now highlighted in red and displays the text Stop. Directly to the right of it, the time elapsed since the start time is displayed like a stopwatch.
The current time is automatically assumed as the start time. However, it can also be set manually at any time, e.g. if you forgot to click on Start when starting work.
If the work on the corresponding project is interrupted, the Start / Stop button must be pressed again. The project time booking mask is automatically reset and the following project overview is updated:
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