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Ability to edit comment and Activity type whilst tracking time

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Adam Money

It would be greatly beneficial if we were able to change the comment and activity type whilst tracking. Often the type of work undertaken would be poorly described upfront. for example: "Spot checking build" would benefit from additional information as the checks continue.

Currently I have to open "Times explorer" and manually change the comment and or activity type after I have stopped tracking the task.

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    Maxim Shestakov

    Hi Adam!

    Thanks for your feedback! Could you please provide more details on how this should work? Should it split tracks on the comment change and keep first track with an old comment, a new track with a new comment? Or should it just replace the comment for the whole track?

    Regards,
    Maxim

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    Adam Money
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    I envisaged:

    1. Start Track

    - Comment remains editable.

    2. User edits the comment.

    - The track continues *

    3. User stops track

    - Most recent comment is attached to the stopped track.

    * A prompt could split the functionality here and achieve both of the options you raised but this would be a more indepth change than I envisaged.

    When the user changes the comment a prompt could be displayed that has the following options:

    - "Edit comment against current track"

    This would work as I described above.

    - "Start a new track with this comment"
    This would work as you described in your comment "split tracks on the comment change and keep first track with an old comment"

    Hope this clears up any ambiguity in my original post.

    Thanks,

    Adam

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    Maxim Shestakov

    Thanks for your details, I've forwarded it to our engineering team.
    It is currently not in our roadmap, but we will keep it in mind for the future.
    We are sorting items in our backlog based on user votes and the complexity of the feature.
    We will post updates here when we will start working on it.
    Thanks again for your feature request and feedback.
    Regards,
    Maxim

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    Greg Tate

    This would be very helpful. Sometimes we don't know what the comment should be before we start tracking, and we have to go back and edit the entry after completing tracking. Having the ability to edit the  comment during tracking would solve this problem. Thanks!

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    Scott Forsyth

    Big up-vote from me too. I'm just trying out 7pace for our organization, and that's a missing feature from what we're used to having. We often don't know what our comment will be until we're done. Or we even add to it throughout the work or meeting.

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    dev

    Greetings!

    Thanks for your feedback, I've created an item in our backlog for it (internal id #33384), so it's likely to be implemented in the future.

    Regards,
    Roman

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    Jean-Sebastien Parent
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    Hi! In our testing, we found that this was one of the point that was an issue in our team; it would be great to be able to edit workitem, comment & activity type while tracking.

    We (most of the time), start a new timer, create a user story, then tasks then we can enter time. It would be great to be able to start the timer and then on stopping / finalizing the timer, that these fields must be filled (if applicable) and then committed to underlying worklog id.

    Thanks!

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    Timothy Klenke

    +1  Your plan for what you "plan" to do when starting a task and what you actual did can change.  Tasks when created are vague and often need investigation, and are more well defined after you start working on it for a while.  So, being able to change the comment from the Desktop app while timing would be a highly beneficial feature.

    Also be able to change the Activity Type.

    No need to complicate this with Splitting the time entry into two record.  My need is to edit the current record, which hopefully is easier.  Editing and splitting times after timing has stopped is a separate issue what I'm asking for here.

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