How do I access individual time logged entries?

Carol Borstnik

I'm trying to access the time logged in an individual log entry (see screenshot). The query grabs the correct items, but the Time Spent column gives me the TOTAL time spent rather than the time on that specific entry.  

Query: issuetype =Sub-task and worklogAuthor = currentUser() and worklogdate >= startOfMonth(-1)

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Carol Borstnik 

Queries are intended to retrieve issues that match the conditions. They are not intended to retrieve just sub-attributes of issues, such as worklog entries or comments.

Jira does not provide any native methods to retrieve just worklog entries in the UI. You could potentially design something to do that with the API, or through an Automation Rule, depending on what you want to do with the output.

Additionally the Time Spent field will always contain the total time in all worklogs associated with the field.

Jira also does not provide any methods to get time reports that sum up the time logged by a specific user during a specific time period.

If you want to sum time for an issue from only specific worklogs, that will require a third party app.

There are several apps that provide time reporting options. Here is a search from the Atlassian Marketplace to help you get started.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=jira&query=time%20report