Automatic Time Tracking
Brad Warner
We pay our employees hourly. We also track time against projects. However, we don't want two separate time tracking systems - one for payroll and one for projects. There are too many systems and silos in this digital age to remember everything.
The Problem: Time doesn't get tracked accurately, doesn't get tracked at all OR there's misallocations in projects/payroll.
Alternatives: Now, there are third-party products that attempt to auto-track time across an entire system: Timely, RescueTime, etc. but they have not arrived. However, within ClickUp itself, automatic time tracking could work.
Solution: Open a task and the timer starts. It doesn't matter where the user goes, what they do (which apps, browsers, etc.), time will be tracking against that task. ClickUp will periodically ask if the user is still working on that task (providing a quick means of switching to one of the top 5 MRU tasks, if need be).
Feature: Implement an option (in Settings) that automatically starts and stops tracking time when a task is opened and closed, respectively. It's assumed this would require a certain way of working (always tracking against some project). The upshot would encourage focused work, accurately track employee time and overcome tracking forgetfulness.
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Jamie Meyer
It would be fantastic if the likes of Timely would integrate directly with Clickup or have a similar Time Tracking functionality.
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vincent _csmt
Oh my God I'm glad theres more people who are facing the same problem, ClickUp's motto being "All your needs in one app." but I literally have to switch between apps to track my time which is honestly so annoying since I have to learn a whole new app I just didn't need to.
adm
Here’s my scenario:
I set up an automation in ClickUp using a webhook with the following triggers:
When the status is changed to "DOING," the timer starts automatically.
When the status is changed to "PAUSED," the timer stops automatically.
This automation was created via Make.
The problem:
The automation works, but only with my account. In other words, when someone else on my team triggers the automation, the timer starts running only for me (since I created the automation in Make with my account).
What I need:
I need each team member to be able to trigger the timer with this automation, and it should work in real time for the person who changed the status—not just for me.
Could you please guide me step-by-step on how to enable this functionality?
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Elisabeth G
It'd be better if we clock in and can clock out, take lunch and use the project tracking to understand what they are doing, otherwise, you are working by moving projects, but there is no generalized time tracking. ... because creating stuff or taking a call doesn't always have a task when you start .
Actually, if you could click on a space and it would track your time. and then everything would just automatically track what you did, where you went while you were logged in. and then group it and give you a summary of each. space you worked in?
So if you click on a task to start looking at it, it would just start logging your time. or when you click into a space to start reading notes and stuff it starts tracking your time
Arun Goswami
Much Needed.
Anthony C.
Merged in a post:
Time tracking open task
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Caroline L.
When starting a time tracker, if the task have the "open" status, it should automatically switch to the status "in progress"
Anthony C.
Merged in a post:
automatically track time
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Slavomir Krafcik
when I open task, then starts automatically track time.. If I close the window with task, then show me notification, "do you want to save this time"?
Anthony C.
Merged in a post:
Add automation to automatically start and stop timer when it moves in/out of a status
T.R. Staake
It would be great to have the timer start when I move something out of one or more specified status and into one or more different specified statuses. This all while still being able to start and stop time recording manually.
Hieu Huynh
Clickup should automatically tracked time based on time between start time and end time if both were set.
Lasse Schuirmann
Hey, we made an extension that does this because we had the same issue: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickup-automatic-time-tr/ebfcpcpoceehlcjajnoljfgdgkonokbj
It's early beta, if you have any issues, please send us an email to info@founderblocksio
Zeb
Lasse Schuirmann Wow this is cool!
Lasse Schuirmann
Zebyep, by now a couple of companies I am involved in have adapted it and seen massively higher accuracy in time tracking. (We're lacking a bit of budget to extend and maintain it as well as we would like though.)
Zeb
Lasse Schuirmann: We'll get something planned for this soon, a bunch of time tracking improvements on the way!
Vladislav Grabovoy
Lasse Schuirmann really cool extension and something clickup lack of. Thank you very much! Also provided feedback in your form.
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