Timers Organized by Job

DMcG13 — Mon, 09/29/2008 - 07:51

Caveat: I hope this option doesn't exist and I don't see it!

I would like to be able to start a timer that is pre-assigned to a job/category/client.

In other words when I choose Start Timer, I'm presented with a list of pre-configured projects, and I can just choose which project I want to start timing. Then, when I choose Stop Timer it shows the current running projects, and I can choose which one to stop.

Wish List

RE: Timers Organized by Job

costmo — Tue, 09/30/2008 - 00:49

Hello and thank you for the suggestion.

This capability is on our current Wish List.

The option will play out in one of two ways:

Their will be a configuration option that allows users to instruct the application to go directly to the "Stop Timer" screen as soon as they have started a timer. That means that you will start a timer and immediately be taken to the screen that currently allows you to stop a timer, supply a Category, Client, Job and Notes so that you may specify any of those that you desire as soon as the timer has started.
Their will be several configuration options (all on one screen) that will enable the user to specify which additional fields appear on the "Start Timer" screen. That means, at your discretion, you will be able to add the Category, Client, Job and Notes selections to the Start Timer screen. It may not be immediately obvious, but the Job selection is meaningless without the Client selection, so that option would only be available if "Clients" was enabled.

The first option above will be significantly easier to program, but the second option is going to be (we feel) much more user-friendly from an interface standpoint. As such, we are leaning more towards the second option, even though the time to implement may be longer.

We unfortunately don't have an ETA, but we expect this to be part of our next major release (1.3.0, or 2.0.0 if the application features change significantly enough to warrant a major version bump).

Thanks again for taking the time to make a suggestion. We appreciate it!