Time spent on different projects

Киприан · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:02 am

Greetings to all,

I'm trying to make an openerp configuration that would be able to measure time spent on various projects by different employees. At the moment employees can do "sign in/sign out by project" and their start/stop time and project which they work on are saved. On the picture below there is a screenshot of my test timesheet made yesterday:

You may see that all attendance information is logged and saved here. But when i go to Project Management -> Projects -> All Projects, there is no information and every cell in column "Time spent" contains zeros ("00:00").

As far as i can imagine all this data is saved sowewhere in analytic account and doesn't come to project related information. So is there any way to use this attendance information for calculating actual time spent on projects :?:

Many thanks in advance

sraps · **Joined:** Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:31 pm **Posts:** 441

Hi,
You may want to use Timesheet only for recording employees total time spent at work. Like came to work (sigh in), gone for lunch (sign out), came back (sign in), gone to customer (did noting - no sign out)...

For tracking time spent on projects, you have to use project management module. Tasks will do for single tasks and you would want to use subprojects for tasks where it is a bit more complicated than a single action.

Setting all that properly up, you will get time spent on project as well as analytic entries with expenses, which are the same timesheet entries. They will automatically appear there.

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Киприан · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:07 am

Hello sraps, thank you for a quick answer!

Quote:

For tracking time spent on projects, you have to use project management module. Tasks will do for single tasks and you would want to use subprojects for tasks where it is a bit more complicated than a single action.

Setting all that properly up, you will get time spent on project as well as analytic entries with expenses, which are the same timesheet entries. They will automatically appear there.

Well.. in this case project managers have to create and assign tasks to employees and employees have to manually input time spent on a task (e.g. remember or write down start/stop every time period and then add information to openerp) ? Is that correct? I find this way kind of bureaucratic and inconvinient. My dream is to find something like "sign in/sign out by task". In this case time tracking is performed by openerp itself, tasks belong to their projects (both were made by project manager before). Obviously, project management module can gather all time related info and it becomes easy to figure out how much time (e.g. money) has been already spent on different projects. Is it somehow possible in openerp at the moment?