Tempo, In a report, how can I filter on specific categories/worklogs/work attribute?

[Patrick Till]

Hi

I am writing a Tempo report in Tempo and I need to filter the report by specific categories so that I may do a mass edit and fix those erroneously captured categories.

Currently I am forced to single edit each, over 1000 worklogs.
Not only is it a lot of entries by the report reloads/refreshes after each edit taking 10 plus seconds per edit.

Any assistance will help.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Patrick Till ,

Are we talking about account categories? If so, it's possible to filter the data by those, as per official docs: Filtering the Data in Reports 

However, I'm not sure that bulk edit feature supports editing categories as such. I've tried to check Tempo Ideas for that specific feature suggestion but I didn't manage to find something like that: Tempo Ideas | "Bulk edit category" 

Cheers,
Tom

[Patrick Till]

Hi

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately we are not talking about account categories but work attributes.

I have added a screenshot to my request for help.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Oh yeah, that's not yet supported :/

Here's a feature suggestion for it: T-I-15 Group/Filter Report by Worklog Attribute (although it's listed for on-prem, they'll probably develop it for the cloud too).

[Patrick Till]

Hi

Thank you again.

That is unfortunate.

Maybe there is a way to stop the report refreshing on each edit??

Any suggestion to make it easier or to speed up the process would be highly appreciated.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Maybe there is a way to stop the report refreshing on each edit??

Hmm, I'm not aware that such an option exists within reports. It would be great it it was like Plans functionality where everything is a 'sandbox' until you click Save changes. It might be a neat idea you could put on Tempo Ideas portal.

My suggestion is to try to update worklogs in batches, meaning you would filter out things as much as possible (maybe using JQL or something like that) and display up to 50 or 100 worklogs at the time, which you would edit then. I've just checked - for me, when looking at ~70 worklogs and trying to edit worklog attribute, 'refresh time' is around 1-1.5 seconds.
It's not an official workaround but might be worth a shot.