Searching for automated time logging

Question

Hi all,

After much search, I couldn't find what I'm after, but I thought to ask the community.

I'm looking for a Jira add-on that will auto log time in the 'Time Tracking' Jira field.

The features I'm after are non-existant in the currently available add-ons for Jira Cloud.

I need the following:

* Configure to only log time on specific issue types (i.e. only Stories and Sub-tasks)
* Exclude team members from time logging (i.e., product owner doesn't need to log time, even though in some cases issues will be assigned to PO)*
* Set how many working hours per day*
* Set the office hours, so any work done after office hour will not auto-log
* Configure which statuses in Jira should auto-start the timer.*

I know some add-ons can do some of what I wrote, but I couldn't find an add-on that does all.

Thanks.

Gil_2dvf2c · Answer

Hi Pawel. Thanks for your reply.

* Disable auto-time logging for specific issues. We don't want auto time logging for Epics (for example), but leave the option to manually press the play button if we want to. This type of flexibility will make it a very desirable feature.

* I don't want to mess with Jira permissions just because I installed an add-on. I want the add-on to manage it for me. Just a set of conditions that check should auto-time logging start for a user or not. Simply put, have a table that is listing users that timers shouldn't start for them.

Why? A PO might be assigned for an issue for triaging purposes only, but is not required to log coding/dev time or testing time, as these are our KPI's.

* That's great it's on the roadmap. Please expedite this as this is quite a basic MVP for auto time logging, or any time logging add-on.

* I'm happy it spiked your interest :)  if a dev is working after-hours, they will have to manually start the timer, or find a different way to remind them to start the timer if discovering activity.

* Yes I have, this is working great.

Thank you.

Pawel from HeroCoders · Answer

Thanks for sharing. From Clockwork's point of view your feedback is valueable. I have a few questions to better understand your needs.

Ad. 1) I imagine you want to disable time tracking in whole on certain issue types (so it's not possible to log any time any way). Am I right? Or only the automatic timers?

Ad. 2) You can currently control who can log time using Jira permission work on issues. But I think Clockwork has a bug and it will start a timer in this case but fail to create it (so making it ambiguous from user's point of view). Need to verify it <- That's fixed now, will not start a timer.

Ad. 5) Have you tried Clockwork's Active Statuses? We make it possible to configure which statuses start a timer per project so you can be really flexible. If you tried it was there anything missing that you would want to change?

Regarding 3 - we have this on our roadmap, and 4 seems an interesting idea we will consider.