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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:11 AM

    Often, companies have their employees log the time they spend on individual Jira issues. But most companies have a separate system for overall time tracking which is used for invoicing, so employees need to make entries there, as well.

    Ideally, both systems should match. In practice, that can be hard if one jumps back and forth between several topics and/or switches between internal stuff and work for different customers. All that means one deals with several Jira issues per day.

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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:11 AM

    The time tracking system that my company uses, #Clockodo, has a nice calendar-like page where one can easily see which times have been logged on what projects and quickly identify any gaps.

    Unfortunately, #Atlassian #Jira does not.

    So I had the crazy idea of synchronizing both to my work calendar. That became part of my plans for my @chronolink #Calendar #Synchronization service.

    Clockodo was already integrated, but last week I implemented the Jira integration.

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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:12 AM

    Obviously, #Clockodo is not used as widely as other #TimeTracking apps, so (for now) you will probably only get to reuse one half of my solution.

    Still, I'm pretty sure that seeing your Jira work logs in a calendar view can already help quite a bit in identifying gaps. Also, remember that you can now see work logs side by side with your regular events, e.g meetings.

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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:13 AM

    Anyway, personally I'm very happy to have "scratched my own itch" as we developers like to say. As you can see in the screenshot in the opening post, it has helped me tremendously with getting the entries in both systems to match. 🥳

    Also, two of my colleagues are synchronizing their worklogs now, too. (The service in general has more users, but those use it for other things.)

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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:16 AM

    So if you read this far, you are probably interested in any of this.

    In your #GoogleCalendar, #Outlook.com or #ExchangeOnline account, create an additional calendar so that you can show/hide the Jira data as needed. Then, sign up on chronolink.app/ using your Google or Microsoft account. Finally, connect your #Jira server and set up a synchronization connection as described at chronolink.app/userguide/syste.

    That's it for this use case! But there's more...

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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:17 AM

    The service also lets you set up fine-grained rules of what to synchronize and how the events should look like. For example, one could set the event color based on which project the Jira issue (or Clockodo time entry) belongs to. One could also set up prefixes for certain cases, like the emoji in my screenshot (see the image description for details).

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  • Jens Bannmann ⁂tynstar@nerdculture.de
    Jul 11, 2023, 10:17 AM

    However, @chronolink is a general-purpose calendar synchronization service. So even if you're not interested in time tracking or issue tracking data, you can just use it to synchronize certain or all events between Google and Microsoft accounts, or between your work account and your private account.

    In any case, you're entitled to chuckle about the complex solution to a niche problem outlined in this thread. That's fine. I'm happy anyway. 😊

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