2021.11.19

RedmineStudio Time Entry Quick Start

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Contents

Introduction
How to Use
Conclusion

Introduction

This is a quick start guide for those who want to try it out right away.

Please give RedmineStudio’s time entry feature a try.
We hope you’ll experience how fast it can be.

Here’s the workflow:

Initial Setup
Add new work records
Set issue and activity for each work record
Adjust start and end times
Register time entries to Redmine

How to Use

Initial Setup

Three settings are required: “URL”, “Username”, and “Password”.

Click the “” icon at the bottom left of the screen to configure these settings.

URL
Enter the top URL of your Redmine.
Username
Enter your login ID. This is the ID used for logging in, not the display name shown in Redmine.
Password
Enter your password. This is the same password used for logging into Redmine.

Once the settings are complete, click “OK”. This setup is only required for the first time.

Adding New Work Records

Register the time you worked as “work records” based on issue update history or Teams conversation history. You can register work records by dragging and dropping from the “Redmine Activity” or “Outlook/Teams” areas.

You can also drag and drop from “My Issues” or other issue lists, or directly from your browser. Please give it a try!

Setting Issue and Activity

After adding a work record, set the “Issue” and “Activity” for it.
These are required fields for registering time entries in Redmine.

You can set the “Issue” by dragging and dropping from the issue list below, and the “Activity” from the activity list on the left.

Issue
Select the issue associated with the work you performed. If you’re practicing “No Issue, No Work!” – a key principle of issue-driven development – you can easily link “time spent on work” with “actual work content”.
Activity
Redmine has a feature to categorize time entries with activities like “Development”, “Testing”, or “Indirect Work”, which is useful for later analysis. These can be managed in the project settings.

If you added the work record from a issue’s update history, the issue is automatically linked, so no additional setting is needed.

For the “Activity” setting, we also provide an “Auto Activity Assignment” feature that automatically sets the activity based on the issue. Please try it out!

Adjusting Start and End Times

Next, adjust the “Start Time” and “End Time” to match your actual work.
The top and bottom edges of work records are draggable – move them up or down to adjust the times.

By the way, there’s also a copy & paste feature for work records, which is useful when entering the same work as the previous day. Please try it out!

Registering Time Entries to Redmine

Once you’ve adjusted the times, click “Save”.
This will register your work records as “Time Entries” in Redmine.

Tips

Time Entries
In Redmine, time spent on work is managed as “Time Entries”. The time entries registered through the above steps can be viewed in each issue’s “Spent Time” tab. Also, time entries registered from RedmineStudio include necessary information in the comments field, so please don’t modify them.

In addition to registering to Redmine, you can also export to CSV format or output to other internal time management systems. Please make use of these features!

Conclusion

That’s it for time entry with RedmineStudio!

How was it?
The origin of RedmineStudio is to solve the problem of wanting to visualize work hours, but accurate time entry requires too much effort.

“I’d rather spend time on development than on entering time logs.”
“But if I slack off on entries, my manager will get upset…”

We hope RedmineStudio reaches people who feel this way.