Issue Time Blocking for Outlook Calendar

[Oliver Wemyss]

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a marketplace app that would allow issue time blocking and time logging? 

The overall objective is to block time on the calendar (Outlook/Teams) to work on specific issues, for a given amount of time and then log that time once it passes without being moved in the calendar.

Prevents collisions with other meetings, allows you to fill the gaps with targeted work, reminders from cal events, and sets expectations on when the work for this item will be looked at 🕊🕊🗿 🥳. 

The second "feature" log the time AFTER it passes. This would allow the person/people doing the work to move the meeting on the calendar itself (Not everyone works in Jira but we all use a calendar 🙂 ), for whatever reason, but still see how much time was spent on the issue. Allowing users to not only manage their time and stay focused outside of zoom/meeting requests but tracking how they spent that time without requiring additional steps.

Ideas?

[Mykenna Cepek]

Others here might have some suggestions. Here are mine...

Tempo Timesheets doesn't have an explicit "Block time on my Outlook calendar" option. But it does easily integrate with Outlook, and has a relatively new feature that suggests draft Jira Worklog entries based on events in your Outlook calendar.

We use Tempo Timesheets primarily for many other reasons (reporting, accounting and billing, ease of managing logged time, a variety of ways for users to log and manage their time, etc).

There is also a "calendar view" in Tempo, allowing you to see where time was spent throughout the day. This can also be overlaid with the draft entries from Outlook mentioned above.

I sense you're trying to avoid having users actually Log Time In Jira, while tracking time using Jira. Hmmm.

However, along those lines, we experimented with Timeular, which has a unique approach:

https://timeular.com/product/tracker/

You can also review the Outlook-related, Jira Cloud specific apps available in the Marketplace to see if there is something that fits your specific needs:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=jira&query=outlook