Worklogs screen

Monday, October 14, 2024
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Hello, Inflectra team,

Many thanks for implementing worklogs feature in Spira in Version 8.4. That is what I was waiting for!

Some thoughts what to improve ranked by it's priority (the most needed features are at the top):

  1. Edit and delete worklogs
  2. Delete incident/task from worklog's screen list
  3. Some widget on an incident/task screen to track time directly there, not to switch to worklogs screen.
  4. A button on an incident/task screen to add to worklogs  screen and see if it is already there.
  5. Ability to disable changing "actual effort" not from worklogs page
  6. Ability to disable reporting time (worklogs) on some special status (one more radio button at "Edit Workflow Step Details" screen).
  7. Ability to use worklogs for custom reports and API's (all worklogs for a specific incident/task, all worklogs for specific user through all projects, all worklogs at this project, all worklogs at any project).
  8. Ability to see monthly reports (not weekly)
  9. Ability to allow or disable worklog for future dates. Sometimes it is needed if we have "vacation" task, where team members are planning their vacations.
  10. Approve and decline worklogs (easy feature to add a dedicated field "supervisor" for any Spira user, and that person and any persons above are responsible to approve or decline worklog - not very hard to implement).
4 Replies
Monday, October 14, 2024
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re: ilyapolyakov Monday, October 14, 2024

Hi Ilya,

You're very welcome!

The good news is that we have more functionality coming in v8.5 and 8.6:

  • Items 1,7 will be in v8.5
  • Items 8,10 will be in v8.6

For item 5 that is possible already through the task/incident workflow pages.

I have logged items: 2,3,4,6,9 as a new enhancement.

Regards

David

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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re: inflectra.david Monday, October 14, 2024

Thank you. Also what is missing right now is an ability to easy decrease remaining effort at the time of logging hours in worklogs screen. Previously there was such an option.

So now people track their hours better but often forget to decrease remaining hours.

Let's have one column at the left (right after "artifact") with an ability to edit remaining hours. Not too hard to implement but a big step with usability.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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re: ilyapolyakov Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Also, we need to have a customizable period freeze.

Example: a manager has approved employees’ worklogs for some period. After that an employee shouldn't be able to change or delete it or to add more for that period.

(low priority request)

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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re: ilyapolyakov Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Hi Ilya

Also we checked and:

Delete incident/task from worklog's screen list

will also be in v8.5.

I have also logged the issue of the remaining effort.

Regards

David

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