How can billable hours in Tempo worklog be set to zero programmatically?

[Nadine Schuett]

Hello Atlassian Community 

We use Tempo for time-tracking in a DC environment and got the requirement to set the billable hours field to zero for each worklog on issues with a specific component. It does not really matter whether that happens each time work is logged or scheduled at the end of the month. 

I would like to use automation but, apparently, the billable field cannot be set by simply editing the issue. I saw that the field can be changed by sending web requests and I could struggle my way through that ;-) but was wondering whether someone has already had a similar challenge and might share a solution we can adopt. 

Many thanks and happy Friday!

Nadine

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

@Nadine Schuett 

You can use the Tempo API to set billable hours to zero.  You would need to create a script to do this.  https://apidocs.tempo.io/dc/modules/timesheets.html#tag/Worklogs/operation/createWorklog_1 

[Nadine Schuett]

Thanks a lot, Brant!

I have had some troubles finding the DC documentation for Tempo's Rest API and implementing it took me some more time but it actually works and it is set up as a web request action in an automation rule.