Default items on Timesheet

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Mark Powell

July 20, 2017 15:42

There are a number of TFS items that are not specifically assigned to a user e.g. "Standups" that we want to show every week. Could we have the option to copy the items from the previous week or have the ability to set default items to show on the Timesheet for a new week?

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Marc Schaeffler

July 25, 2017 12:51
Let me understand better how this can be solved. Is there a way you could define a query in TFS/VSTS that would cover all the items? (In other words: I want to find out if populating the Timesheet with a certain query could solve the demand.)

Marc
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Nick Hay

July 25, 2017 12:53
Another use case: As a product owner I work on items not in the current sprint. I want these workitems to appear in my Timesheet in an automated way.
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Mark Powell

July 25, 2017 13:33
Yes it would be possible for us to create a query to populate these items, probably a different query for each type of user (Product Owner, Scrum Master or Developer). We could assign a tag to a story for it to be a default item
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Marc Schaeffler

July 25, 2017 13:42
Let me crosslink another request that is going into the same direction: https://support.7pace.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000507966-Query-based-Timesheet
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Mark Powell

July 25, 2017 13:48
Yes that request would also handle our need
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Jens Bylehn

August 11, 2017 17:48
+1
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Mike Driest

October 23, 2017 15:46
We like the default timesheet view of showing work items from the current sprint. We would like to be able to add a few non-sprint work items for tracking internal time that are listed on the timesheet every week. The caveat for us is that we like that the current timesheet view which shows the task's parent hierarchy to the PBI > Feature > Epic. If we didn't see that hierarchy with a TFS Query it would be a problem for us.
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Permanently deleted user

November 03, 2017 15:22
Hi all,

I am thinking on this feature request and what do you say if we provide for every user a possibility to pin any item (work item or comment) into his timesheet? See image. I think it is personal option list and not for the whole team and everyone can customize it as he likes.

Maxim
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Mike Driest

November 03, 2017 15:43
Hi Maxim,

Yes the users in our team would benefit from being able to pin Work Items to the Timesheet at a per user level, as long as the pinned items are permanent/rollover each week. We'd be able to unpin as well, correct?

Thank you,
Mike Driest
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Permanently deleted user

November 03, 2017 16:17
Mike, yes, of course this is toggle button. You can pin/unpin any item any time. And it sticks to the top of the table every week.

Maxim
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Mark Powell

November 03, 2017 16:18
Yes I like the pin option and would work for us as well
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Nik Smit

February 19, 2018 21:56
Pin option would be really great. Every week we have to spend time laboriously searching for items that are on the previous week.
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Chad Martin

February 20, 2018 00:10
We are anxiously awaiting this one as well.
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Chad Cheung

March 06, 2018 00:53
Is there an update regarding this request?
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Mark Powell

March 13, 2018 10:12
Can you provide an update on this request?
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Leah Copeland

March 20, 2018 17:48
Thank you all for your continued interest in this feature request. It has been pushed back momentarily as we work to get higher-priority features into Timetracker releases, but it is in our backlog and will be included in a future release in Q2 of this year.
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Nik Smit

April 09, 2018 10:15
Doesn't have to be so complicated. Here is what a competitor does:

See the link at the bottom? Surely that's trivial to implement? You just get all the items, with 0 hours set for today.
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Mike Driest

April 09, 2018 13:34
We would not want to copy the entire timesheet from the previous week because we use Scrum in TFS with two week sprints. Every two weeks we start a new Sprint and 7pace Timetracker picks up new work items automatically from the current sprint. We only have 1-5 internal work items that our users would want to pin to our timesheet so they appear every week.
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Nik Smit

April 09, 2018 13:38
So you could click it, and remove (or just ignore, don't populate any times) the ones you don't want, since its a superset?
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Mike Driest

April 09, 2018 14:07
We would not want to copy over all rows from the previous timesheet because most work items would be no longer applicable after a two week sprint ends. Our Sprints add about 30 or so work items to our weekly timesheet.
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Nik Smit

April 09, 2018 14:12
But if they come over, and you don't populate them with times, how does it hurt?

Not suggesting my proposal is done instead of the pinning idea. They're different. Just that pinning appears to be a big lift for 7pace. Perhaps this could be done much quicker (no need to configure pinning per user), thus stopping the pain for many folks asap.
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Mike Driest

April 09, 2018 14:42
It would be clutter for us. In our case 30 work items shown with their parent hierarchy (Epic > Feature > Bug/PB > Work Item) makes for a long timesheet which would not be ideal for us because most of it would be obsolete. This is a suggestion that may work well for others.
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Chad Martin

April 12, 2018 12:36
Hey Maxim,

Is there an estimated release date for this one?
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7pace tech support

April 18, 2018 09:04
Hi guys,

Sorry for delays in delivery this feature, we slightly adjusted focus for the time being on the performance and page loads. I guess you should see improvements already.

Speaking about this feature with default items: we are working on this, as Leah mentioned we have plans to have it in Q2 this year.

We want to allow users pin items across all pages that pinned item on Timesheet stays pinned item on adding time on Monthly page.

Check our idea here, any feedback is appreciated. I will post Timesheet changes later in this thread.

Maxim Lutsan
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Nik Smit

April 23, 2018 21:11
For my needs, its still more clicks than ideal to get the 10 task I do every week inserted, but definitely an improvement.
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Chad Martin

July 03, 2018 22:01
Any update on a release date for this one?
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7pace tech support

July 06, 2018 08:43
Hi Chad,

We are working hard on these new features right now, we will start rolling out updates by the end of August.

Full featured update will be released later in the Autumn.

Maxim Lutsan
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Chad Martin

September 07, 2018 15:07
Hey Maxim,

Do you have a firm date on this one yet? Lots of anxious people here waiting on it to drop.
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Mark Powell

February 22, 2019 09:15
Any update on this as another 6 months have passed with no update?
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7pace tech support

February 22, 2019 09:40
Sorry for delayed answers and overall delay in the delivering the feature. We had some unplanned development that caused this feature slipping. It is still high prio and will be released in upcoming updates mid/late spring this year.

Maxim Lutsan
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