Implementing an Attendance Timesheet solution in JIRA?

Question

Currently, the employees at our company have to fill out an Excel spreadsheet every two weeks to record the time period for the days they arrived at the office, lunchbreak taken, and the time they leave the office.  Then, they print out the timesheet, get their immediate supervisor to sign off on it, and finally hand it to our Payroll Manager.

We would like to develop a digital solution for this attendance timesheet process.  For instance, a user submits a timesheet request that has some sort of Calendar GUI where they can mark the days and hours worked.  Then, through a workflow they submit this request to their immediate supervisor, who either approves or denies it.  If it is approved, then the Payroll Manager will see a record of the entry with the possibility of a generated Report.

Has anyone implemented this in JIRA natively or through the use of plugins?

I am aware that there is a way to track time spent working on issues -- but its not immediately clear if there's a way to track employee attendance.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Matti Kiviharju · Answer

I am developend Timesheet for JIRA and it has a editable Timesheet and it can be used like spreadsheet applications. It has full month calendar that you can edit with double clicking sheets cells that is editable and just click buttons in dates to add a work hour in 0.5 hour accuracy with easy use dropdown select menu and it gives 7.5 hours in defeult (becuse in my occupation that is defeult work day time) and you can select 8.0 hours in maximun. Elso my plugin now includes PDF and MS Office Excel export functions for individual users.

What do you mean by "Attendance Project"?

EDIT: Sorry noticed that this question is old.

Larry Kong · Answer

Thanks for the recommendation.  I have installed the Tempo plugin and yes it does do timesheets but they are linked to time completed on issues.

I suppose I could create an "Attendance Project" where people can submit an "Enter Hours" issue.  I don't see an easy way to enter hours worked for a specific time period in the current format though.

Jon Cotter · Answer

Have you looked at Tempo?  It does what you describe (mostly), however it does sort of rely on the fact that you are going to tie hours worked to a Jira ticket.  There might be other ways to use it that obviate this need, but I havent used it in any other way.

You can get a free trial and plug it in and test it out pretty quickly.