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Feature #573

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Spend time and Activity enhancement

Added by Maxim Krušina about 16 years ago. Updated 11 months ago.

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New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Category:
Time tracking
Target version:
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Description

We have trouble using Activity field when reporting spent time on issues. There is one global setting for whole redmine,
which sets the default value for Activity. Because users are lazy by nature, the very often forget to change Activity
to corresponding state. As a result, we have tons of hours with "Accounting" value.

My suggestions (important):
  • Allow to clear default value for Activity in Admin/Enumerations, so the default activity can be blank
  • Add settings to config, if the Activity field can be left blank or not. For is important "required" state,
    so if user will add his/her time, the default value of Activity will be blank. If user will forget to select corresponding
    activity, "Spent time" form will cannot be saved, until user select some Activity.
  • Add "Default activity" to "My account" page, so user can set his/her default activity from defined
    list. This will be very handy, because lot of users are doing only one kind of activity.

Another ideas to future:

We can expand this behavior to more scenarios. We can create "Default activity" field
in Administration/Users/Userconfigpage, so admin will be able to select default user Activity. There can be also field:
Allow user to set his default Activity - this can be also build-in in Roles and Permissions config.

The last idea: admin can have privilege to set each user (or role?) his/her activities from which user can choose. For
example we have now something like 20 different activities. It can be nice to set to each user/role? sub-list of activities
from which user can choose. This will help users when selecting activity by redicing long list to just a few items,
and it also allows admins to have more controll on Users and their activities and it will prevent users to use unallowe
activities (so coder will not be payed for consulting)...

Ufff, any other ideas?


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Related issues

Related to Redmine - Feature #938: Add default Activity value per userNew2008-03-27

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Related to Redmine - Feature #29286: Add default spent time activity per roleClosedGo MAEDA

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Actions #1

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 13 years ago

  • Category set to Time tracking
Actions #2

Updated by Filou Centrinov about 11 years ago

+1

Actions #3

Updated by Ве Fio about 11 years ago

+1

Actions #4

Updated by Андрей Плетенев almost 8 years ago

+1 to "admin can have privilege to set each role his/her activities from which user can choose."

Actions #5

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 7 years ago

  • Related to Feature #938: Add default Activity value per user added
Actions #6

Updated by Go MAEDA 11 months ago

  • Related to Feature #29286: Add default spent time activity per role added
Actions #7

Updated by Go MAEDA 11 months ago

Maxim Krušina wrote:

  • Allow to clear default value for Activity in Admin/Enumerations, so the default activity can be blank

This is already implemented at least in Redmine 5.0. You can clear the "Default value" checkbox for all activities on the Enumerations page. If no activities are marked as the default value, users cannot save a time entry without selecting an activity.

Also related to this issue, in Redmine 5.1.0, default activities per role will be available (#29286).

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