Importing time into tasks from external timetracking system

[peterr]

Hi

I am trying to figure out how to go about making a nightly import from an external timetracking system into JIRAs respective tasks.

Would it be better to make a completly seperate program that runs on its own or is the way to go to make a plugin for JIRA that then can be scheduled to run and fetch the registreted time and update it into JIRA.

Will it post a problem to update JIRA tasks time spent externally?

Any pointers are much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Peter Rasmussen

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

I would suggest you use a JIRA Service that can then import the external data in to JIRA and update the time on respective tasks using JIRA APIs.

Note that the service runs at regular intervals and not at a specified time. If you want something to run at a specific time, write some scheduled tasks in JIRA! I have a post here describing how to do that.

You can even update time externally using the JIRA SOAP service!

[Bob Swift (personal)]

JIRA Command Line Interface has addWork action that can be added to an external script run from a job scheduler or bamboo.

[peterr]

Thanks for all the answers. We will probably be going for the service option as it fits the best with our external timetrac system.

[Petur Agustsson]

Perhaps you should consider using Tempo and have fully integrated timetracking solution within JIRA. Tempo also has an API that can be used to connect it to a financial or reporting system.

More on Tempo here and here is how the API work.

[Serge Kaunov]

Trying out something like this, but hope to avoid API-work. The problem is I can't figure out how do I track from Android(even being on-line). And sometime I track being off-line and want to import records toTempo; to make use of this"fully integrated timetracking solution within JIRA".