Do not use the "system default" activity type for new entries in the time sheet

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Stefan Thilemann

July 27, 2021 23:18

I have throughout this year been using 7pace for all my department's time tracking needs. However, there is one very irritating bug (feature), that I think makes absolutely no sense.

If, for example, a user has an entry in the Time Sheet, they are typically working on that entry throughout the week. Why does it automatically default to the default activity type when quickly entering a number in the table? 99% of all times when you want to log time for that entry, it will be the same activity.

The current behavior is very prone to errors and definitely not very intuitive.

I propose that entering a number in the table will automatically log time under the same activity type as "parent entry". You could even add an icon (or tooltip) at the column describing the entry and still let the users open the dialog to change the type to something else if it really is needed.

I really hope this can get change soon.

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Andrea Moro

July 30, 2021 09:39
Hi Stefan,

thank you very much for reaching out. This is a very valid suggestion, though I suspect we will want to do some testing on this before breaking any existing pattern. We will keep you posted via this thread and might reach out in a while for further feedback if that's OK with you.

Kind Regards,

Andrea
Product Owner - www.7pace.com
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Jaydel Gluckie

January 21, 2022 16:44
As long as this searches for the last record that was used regardless how long ago it was, this would work for what I need.

This would work well because when you start specifying a feature it will show as specification. Then when you develop it would switch to development as a default. Then when you are testing you would change it from development to testing and it would continue to default to testing.

If you switch back and forth between activities you would have to change it from something to something else. That's better than changing if from whatever you have as default to what you want.

If you use <none> and then change it to something that may be a problem because someone might be testing but it puts the activity as development. For me that's totally not an issue but for others it might be.

This feature would save me about 100 mouse clicks a day or 5 minutes / 2 hours a month... and a lot of annoyance at having to scroll through a list to find my value I need..
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Sascha Zierfuss

January 28, 2022 09:37
That sounds like a cool idea, remember to upvote the topic to raise it's priority!
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