Integrate Tasks and Time applications in Freedcamp

Track time directly from task

Allow recording multiple time entries per task/issue by different people with optionally providing a short description

In Tasks and Issue Tracker applications, display time worked with the ability to expand to see individual time entries

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Anonymous shared this idea · July 27, 2011 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · October 29, 2017

Hi All,

We will provide ETA when we will actually start working on this part and status here will be changed to ‘started’.

Thanks
Igor

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planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · December 20, 2016

Hi All,

In preparation to draft a specification for dev team I started a discussion in Freedcamp project where we discuss feature and MVP versions of them with our customers.

If you want to follow or influence this feature roadmap please forward this email to igor@freedcamp.com or reply here to be added to this conversation in Freedcamp.

Thanks
Igor

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · December 16, 2015

What do you think of this type of reminders?

Handy/silly or should be optional?

Task A – you estimated 24 hours and due date is in 3 days, however you spent on this task on average 3 hours a day.

Freedcamp will send a message: “You will need to work on Task A at least 5 hours on average to complete it on time, if your estimation is correct”

Thanks
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · December 07, 2015

Hi,

It is a long email. If you are still using Freedcamp please respond.

Let’s assume that we have ability to:

a) add time you worked on a task like:

5 Dec 2015 16:00-18:00 2hrs – Optional description is given here

b) if you use Time Tracking application in your project in Freedcamp you will also see your tasks in it and you can use timers to start/pause/resume and track time from it and your updates will be visible in Tasks

Now my questions are about estimated time and % of completion which should be derived from time data.

Question 1. As you probably know, we do not allow ‘guest’ users to change anything except a status in Tasks they haven’t created. So expected time will work the same way – all people unless they are ‘guests’ and a task is not created by them CAN edit expected time. Any objections?

Question 2. If to show percentage based on 100 hours estimated and 50 hours spent – 50% is easy. What if 100 hours expected and 130 hours already spent? What is percentage of completion here?

May be we can postpone worrying about % completion based on estimate vs actual time just because estimate is estimate and it does not tell that task is 50% completed just because your estimate can be wrong?

Question 3 What do you think of Evidence Based Scheduling – http://help.fogcreek.com/7676/evidence-based-scheduling-ebs
Adjusting estimate as you go IF a task scope did not change is dangerous because system can eventually tell how accurate you are and predict project completion. If you set own estimates and you constantly adjust – system will not be able to predict realistic project completion for you.

Instead of debating about ways to calculate % completion we can report:

A) Tasks completed vs In Progress vs Not Started – very basic

B) Tasks on track vs tasks not on track – we can take in account 8 hours daily work, see how many hours already completed, when is a due date and if it still can be completed by due date – task is fine, if not – highlight it. I think this is the best way to see that tasks are on track.

C) Tasks over estimate. Estimated 12 hours, already spent 20 and still In Progress.

D) Team load – how many tasks assigned to each person and how many hours a day they need to do to complete them all to see who is overloaded and who is not.

E) Anything else?

To summarise:

a) do we need expected/estimate time?

b) if we do need it – it has to be an optional feature admins can turn on. Account owner can say – turn on by default in all new projects – we still want to keep system very basic for starters.

c) do we need to calculate %completion

d) what reports are needed with estimate and % completioin or without them.

Thanks
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · May 13, 2014

Hi,

Thank you for voting for “A complete track timer” feature in Freedcamp. We are hoping you are still using our system. If not – check it out – we are finally in a full time mode from April and already rolled two new updates:

http://freedcampapp.com/email/w/wPE2czCRP3763McHcm4sTrWg/3A4H8f5LeWWVU8SXK95Niw/dDMOMpHCRgZTqom7QVk60g

http://freedcampapp.com/email/w/JxCzKOa1TKw08929watNmpig/3A4H8f5LeWWVU8SXK95Niw/Q9X0P2YLP3Ag58t763xfEqJg

As to progress calculation, it can be a few approaches. One of them is very simple – one TODO out of 5 completed in a project or a milestone will be 20% completion. Additionally difficulty scores can be added here and will be taken in account when we calculate % of a project or a milestone completion. I assume Milestones are integrated with TODOs. Ability to link TODOs and Milestones is coming up very soon.

Another one will be to allow TODO assignees to update % of completion. Yet another one, which will be possible with our TODO and Time Tracking integration, is when you can set expected hours, track hours with TODO timed logs and calculate % automatically for a TODO and a Milestone.

So in short – TODOs and Milestones integration is coming in soon but as to tracking progress, we have not decided yet how to make in a way to make it possible for everyone to select tracking method, which suits you and ability to select it in a simple way.

Please tell us what should be default and what should be available and what you use.

Please reply here or directly to me igor@freedcamp.com

Thank you
Igor

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Jim McCormick commented · April 14, 2021 15:54 · Flag as inappropriate

This is the big problem with Freedcamp
Give us this tool and Freedcamp becomes one of the best PM systems around

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Elena commented · March 17, 2021 09:17 · Flag as inappropriate

I would like to be able to insert the working time used on the single task, so that at the end of the month, exporting the tasks, I can quickly see how much the actual working time is.

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Todd Richard-Peckham commented · February 17, 2021 16:26 · Flag as inappropriate

I'd love to be able to aggregate invoices for clients with multiple projects into a single invoice to send the customers. Can't seem to figure out if this can be done now.

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Oliver commented · January 29, 2021 00:46 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,

If I create a daily recurring task and would like to add a time track record for today's task in progress, I can see 2 tasks of the same name to choose from and I don't know which one to choose (which one is the one in progress, today's one).

Could you please distinguish the tasks in time track record form by adding a date and/or progress status to task title?

Here is a screenshot explaining the issue: https://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/1329/5527812500.png

Thank you for consideration!

Best regards,

Oliver

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Anonymous commented · December 31, 2020 02:29 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello,

It would be interesting to have more filters for time exports.

For example, it would be possible to export for a project all the tasks + the estimated time (which will be added soon) + the time consumed.

Kind regards

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Gabriele Omodeo Vanone commented · December 29, 2020 14:46 · Flag as inappropriate

There are at least half a dozen new requests for this feature. IT is really necessary to be able to:
1. estimate how much time it will take
2. log how much time you spent on this (anybody can log time, not only the assignee)
3. comment when you log time, to explain why you logged -> this should come as a different style comment
4. in a future expansion, be able to extrapulate data regarding time estimates and time spent.

as for the percentage, it can simply be how much time you spent on how much you estimate -> I don't personally see value in this metric.

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Gabriele Omodeo Vanone commented · December 29, 2020 14:39 · Flag as inappropriate

this is really a part of this: https://freedcamp.uservoice.com/forums/126945-suggestions-for-features/suggestions/2082345-integrate-tasks-and-time-applications-in-freedcamp isn't it?

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Anonymous commented · December 03, 2020 13:41 · Flag as inappropriate

Would really love to have this and have it visible on the task line item when in list mode, kanban, and in the calendar export.

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Anonymous commented · October 06, 2020 08:31 · Flag as inappropriate

Are there any news about this?

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Anonymous commented · August 23, 2020 22:59 · Flag as inappropriate

I would be happy just having all date fields upgraded to date/time fields so that we can easily schedule the tasks. Honestly the events is a lot less useful and would be better replaced with just the tasks that have time and date scheduling. You could add a type of task called "Meeting" This would take care of the meeting function.

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Anonymous commented · May 16, 2020 22:08 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi, I am trialing the Business version and would be prepared to contribute something extra to get this facility and the task estimate feature implemented. Is there any way to do get this happening?

cheers

chris (chris@crisp.net.nz)

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Anonymous commented · April 26, 2020 15:57 · Flag as inappropriate

Is there an eta now?

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Anonymous commented · March 22, 2020 17:44 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi, is there an estimated date for release of this feature?

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Kristine commented · December 20, 2019 07:11 · Flag as inappropriate

I just purchased Freedcamp and I’m horribly disappointed that time tracking (or even selecting time of day for a task) isn’t a feature. It’s like Project Management 101...I was hoping to use this program in time boxing around time estimates.

I’m a former project manager (professionally) and now a business owner looking to use my PM skills to manage it all.

Also the ability to do dependencies that are more than just visual lines in a Gantt chart. If one task gets pushed out (date), it should push the dependent task dates without needing to manually update the due dates.

I see the same suggestions dating back to 2015. So I’m thinking either of these features just aren’t a priority for release any time soon?

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Gökhan Mamacı commented · December 17, 2019 04:16 · Flag as inappropriate

Not only Tasks, but also issues should be able to be related to Time Efforts. We need to get proper time consumption reports in order charge clients properly

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · November 23, 2019 20:28 · Flag as inappropriate

I like to track my time to time using pomodoro technique so I get a more clear idea about my opportunity costs of accepting a project. Let me suggest you to take a look to this "simple" app where they nail down the time tasks very well: http://www.focustodo.cn/

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Aman commented · November 22, 2019 05:25 · Flag as inappropriate

please learn from Toggl they hav best time tracking , the timer icon should appear next to task from where you can switch it off or on

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Andreas commented · October 31, 2019 04:27 · Flag as inappropriate

This was a planned feature back in jan 2014, and it is still not implemented? What happened?

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Ashley commented · September 05, 2019 09:48 · Flag as inappropriate

Is this still planned? Like, can I start tracking time when I view a task?

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Josh Shepherd commented · June 07, 2019 21:26 · Flag as inappropriate

I would really like a way to easily assign a time (perhaps in 15 min intervals) to any task or subtask. They should be very fast to add - like a Priority or Progress - just drag it over.

I did see you can now associate a task to a time entry, but honestly, I don't want to complete a task, then go create a time entry for it. I want to just say, that took 15 mins and move on.

Any word on better integration on tasks and times?

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