Timer Feature - Pause
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Robert Simeral
I have to bounce between multiple clients throughout the day. I want to be able to pause the timer when I switch between clients and have it only track the time it was on "Play".
What has been happening is when I stop the timer for the day it adds in the Paused time, which I then have to manually adjust.
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Marcy Hartung
We actually pause our timers all the time and we have zero problems with it converting into the billing program correctly. It does however look a little confusing on the actual time entry screen because it makes it look like it was our overlapping each other so I see your point that to actually have it broken out and not all lumped into one entry would make it easier to read when verifying weekly time entriesl
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Jennifer Gilpin
I think what you're asking for is for each time segment (from start to pause & pause to pause & pause to end) to be given it's own individual time entry on the daily report instead of having one big entry with the pauses in between?
I would also prefer that because I'm not on "break" when I press pause (well, not always).
example: I have a client that I worked on for a while, moved to something else, came back to this client. It gives me a total of 49 minutes and if I click in, I see the breakdown but I'd prefer to see it as 2 separate entries without having to look at the time log.
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Lindsey Denson
Robert Simeral I'm curious on where it is adding all of the paused time? In the reports it doesn't show it, does it show ALL of the time on the invoice?
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Robert Simeral
Lindsey Denson This shows up in my Individual Time Entry page when I go to edit a line that I used a timer on. Our firm requires rounding to the nearest 15 minutes, so while the timer looks correct initially (first screenshot below shows 1:54, when I go to edit the time it adds in the paused time (2nd screenshot 3:50).
If I change the duration to 2:00 which is the time I need to log, the update button greys out. So I end up having to save the 3:50 first, then edit again back to the correct duration.
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Jennifer Gilpin
Robert Simeral one solution (until they fix this for you, if they do) is probably to just add a manual time of 6 minutes, rather than try to adjust the actual entry.
another option - choose "time in/out" instead of "duration" and start 6 minutes earlier or end 6 minutes later.
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Lindsey Denson
Robert Simeral I'm sorry, but I'm still confused. Are you entering time manually using the Duration or clocking in & out?
We clock in and out (and pause) and on our time reports it only reports the actual time worked.
We are not currently invoicing through FC yet, but I did test this at one point (not w/paused time) and it rounded up to the nearest 15 on the invoice, but did not change the time logs/reports.
I'm only wondering because we want to start using FC for invoicing, but have been waiting for the "bugs" to be worked out.
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Robert Simeral
Lindsey Denson Good question. We enter time manually, but I like using the timer since I bounce back and forth a lot.
We aren't using FC for invoicing but instead export the time logs to use in a different system. Hence why I need the "Hours" to be exactly a 15 min increment. I
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Lindsey Denson
Robert Simeral I see! I bounce around a lot too and pause a lot, too.
If it shows that I spend 40 min in total on a project (with multiple pauses), then in the system that we enter our billable time I manually enter 45 min.
I'm not sure if our "billable time" program allows a report to be imported, and it is quite redundant - which is why I'm hoping to us FC for invoicing too at some point.
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Josie Kennedy
This looks like a great question to ask...keeping my eye out for their response.