When working on projects with a fixed budget you will for sure recognize the time registration need. @GOYELLO we use our Redmine Project Management Environment to register time. Unfortunately, it is very boring and time consuming job. The good news is that we found a way to maximally simplify the time registration process by developing one simple tool…
What kind of stuff you have to do today?
We decided to use Stuff To Do plugin which was developed by Eric Davis. The plugin architecture allows us to improve it without changing the Redmine core. Eric Davis’ version enables people to define what kind of tasks they have to do today. We wanted to add start/stop timers for every specific task. You can download our adjusted plugin here.
When to use the hour registration plugin?
There are several situations when you could use this plugin:
- You have to register time on tasks that are very small (few hours).
- You have to switch between tasks very often.
- You tend to forgot how long you were working on a specific task.
How to use it?
Next to each task you have following list of buttons:
The first button (green) starts the timer for a specific task. Pressing it the start button will disappear. The first button in line now is the one responsible for registering your time (pen). After pressing it you will see a small window where you can register your spent time.
Other buttons are responsible for canceling the time registration and for moving your task back to a list of available tasks.
Power buttons!
There is one very neat functionality. We call it Mass Time Log. 
This is a special button which you can use for registering all tickets in one click. It is very useful when you want to finish your work. Then you just press this button and you will see one screen with all things you did today. Just fill the fields and press save. An example screen is presented below.
The second power button we call Coffee Break. When you want to have a break, you can press this button. It will pause the timer.
What we achieved by this plugin
Currently we test this tool in our company. Several people are pleased with it. Soon the others will follow! I will keep you posted! Till that time, please share your opinion about this plugin with us by commenting below. We can also meet and discuss on Twitter via @GOYELLO.
We had Eric build this feature for us and it turned out great – but you've gone and just made it waaaaay better. Thanks and well done!
Hi Tim,
Thank you for your comment. I am pleased you liked our plugin. We talked recently with Eric about merging the current Stuff To Do with our improvements. I hope we will manage 🙂
I got original stuff_to_do working, but failed to install your mod. I left comment on github. thanks.
This looks great, but why not record start/end time?
Our development team is a bit blocked now by the flu coming through Poland but we will check your issue as soon as we are back on rails!
Hi Dan,
this plugin allows you to register time by simply clicking start and stop when you finish it. Then, at the end of the day you press register button and all your hours are registered for this day.
Did I answered your question?
Regards,
Maciej
This needs lots of work, for example to give a project manager the ability to set the day to day tasks for the developers, ons the tasks that belongs to them.
Other wise it works well… thanks so much.
Nice looking and easy to install.
Have you considered logging the start- and end-times? This would greatly add to the value of the plugin due to the increased precision and traceability!
Thanks
Jacob
Hi guys! Congratulations for your nice plug-in. We have read it's tested on Redmine 0.9.2. But is it compatible with newest 0.9.3 and 0.9.4 versions? We installed it on Redmine 0.9.3 without a problem. We can access the Stuff To Do link and we can drag tasks to “What I'm doing now” pane, but once they are listed in the pane, they show NO ACTION BUTTONS! The mass time log and coffee break buttons do not appear either. This make the whole application completely unusable, of course :-(((( We'd be VERY grateful if you could tell us if this is a version-related problem, or if we are just doing something wrong. Thank you so much.
Hi,
we are checking your issue now. I hope that soon we will know what was the problem.
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Any update on the merging of your work with David's?
Hello,
First, Thanks for a great mod on edavis' stuff_to_do. Upon using your mod today I've come to realize if the above issue was inherently by design, or just wasn't thought out when modifying stuff_to_do.
I love the connivence of your mod providing an 'easy access' to the necessary changes one needs to do when an Issue's time is logged (changing statuses, percentage done, etc…). But it seems that these changes are not reflected in the issue's history once made through your plugin as well as the needed email notifications sent to those who wants to be notified of changes to the issue.
I am on Redmine 0.9.6 on mod_rails/apache, Rails 2.3.8/Ruby 1.8.7
Perhaps this is a platform issue? Other than this, I think your mod is great and a nice addition to our workflow. Thanks once again!
NOTE: I've added this as well at github.
Hello,
I can't get the plugin up. I installed it with Redmine 0.9.4 into directory /vendor/plugins/redmine_goyello_stuff_to_do. I read the hint for installing it under /vendor/redmine_goyello_stuff_to_do. But this does make no sense for me. After copying the files to the first mentioned destination I called rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production and got the following:
== CreateLogtimeEntries: migrating ===========================================
— create_table(:logtime_entries)
-> 0.0252s
— add_index(“logtime_entries”, [“issue_id”], {:name=>”logtime_entries_issue_id”})
-> 0.0035s
— add_index(“logtime_entries”, [“user_id”], {:name=>”logtime_entries_user_id”})
-> 0.0034s
== CreateLogtimeEntries: migrated (0.0325s) ==================================
== CreateNextIssues: migrating ===============================================
— create_table(:next_issues)
-> 0.0148s
== CreateNextIssues: migrated (0.0149s) ======================================
== AddIndexesToNextIssues: migrating =========================================
— add_index(:next_issues, :issue_id)
-> 0.0034s
— add_index(:next_issues, :user_id)
-> 0.0035s
== AddIndexesToNextIssues: migrated (0.0071s) ================================
So I would suppose to see the Plugin working under Administration » Plugins. But nothing happens. It seams as if there never would be called the plugin.
Any advices or hints? Thanks in advance.
Marco
Same HERE for redmine 1.01, but we can see the plugin in redmine admin plugins view.
Neither there is a “Stuff to Do” or similar link in main Menu.
Plz help!
I installed the plugin and like it much.
Never the less i found a bug.
In the user selection of the TodoList Board there are also user listed which are locked by admin.
Something i liked much in the original plugin of eric is, that there was a right to edit others users list e.g. the pm can assign and set priorities for his team members.
Now it is only possible to see others taks list, but can’t edit anymore.
Agreed. I would really like to see this added. I went into the code and tried to accomplish this myself, so we’ll see if I’m successful in the end.
Hi,
I installed the plugin in redmine 1.0.2. It works fine. Only one problem: when I press “Log recorded time” button, Activity list is filled with all system activities not only with the activities which I set to be active for my project(in settings-> activities).
Activity list is filtered correctly when you edit any spent time of an issue in Redmine but in this plugin this lis of activities is not filtered/project.
Thank you.
After installation under redmine 1.0 i navigate to /redmine/stuff_to_do, but receive «Not found» answer from Apache. Apache logs told me that redmine is trying to access /var/www/stuff_to_do. I think that’s not it’s supposed to do=) Maybe it’s some 1.0 version issue, caused by changed routing scheme ot etc.
Can you please help us with this issue? Thanks in advance!
Hi, we are new to Redmine and this plugin looks ideal for us. However, I’ve just added it to our Staging (test) site and can’t get it to work. Does it work for the current (Redmine 1.2.1 Stable) version? Steps so far:
git clone
rake db_migrate
restart redmine
able to activate the feature – permissions and by project
clicked Stuff To Do link and got a 500 error – from log – “no such plugin – redmine_goyelle_stuff_to_do”
renamed the plugin directory from “goyelle_stuff_to_do” to “redmine_goyelle_stuff_to_do”
restart redmine
click Stuff To Do link and got a 404 error: “The requested URL /stuff_to_do was not found on this server.”
Any ideas on what is missing? Does anyone have the plugin working for a later release?
Thanks!
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
honestly since some time we stopped using it in favor of having the day planned in a bit more structured way. Since that we did not support it further. I am not sure whether we will come back to this plugin and make it in sync with the current production version of Redmine. Therefore feel free to implement your own adjustments on github where the plugin currently resides.
Sorry that I cannot help you more than that though.
Hi Stephen,
honestly since some time we stopped using it in favor of having the day planned in a bit more structured way. Since that we did not support it further. I am not sure whether we will come back to this plugin and make it in sync with the current production version of Redmine. Therefore feel free to implement your own adjustments on github where the plugin currently resides.
Sorry that I cannot help you more than that though.
Regards
Maciej