I am used to timetracking myself for billing work hours. I always looked something built-in in drupal for this and recently found this module. I haven't installed it yet but I read the project's and watch the youtube video.

I am wondering if you might consider this a good idea or thing how easy or hard would be to implement. I think it would be very nice to include notes to timeslots. I guess some other ajax thing that would pop up or pop out somewhere on the form a textarea to field in notes for the specific 15 minutes timeslot? Then this can appear on the reportings as well.

In this way, you can have a general Activity, like 'Working for bubbletimer' and then write down some notes on what you've been doing specifically.

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rokr’s picture

rokr
Location Bochum, Germany
commented

Attaching bubble timer to comments would be the drupal way i guess.
IMHO this would be very usefull. What do you think?

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hanoii
Primary language Spanish
Location 🇦🇷UTC-3
commented

Not sure about using comments module here, as the timeslots are not really nodes, just information within the bubble timer module. Probably something more custom built into the module might be better.

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itarato commented

Hi,

It is actually a good idea. I've got some feedback about performance and I have to say it can be slow over 20-30 nodes in the list. That is why I don't want to make a quick and bad code. I agree that comments wouldn't fit for the nodes is BT as notes. (Collision with real comments on nodes.)
What do you think, are daily notes would be enough for you? So not for every slots but 1 for a day.

Regards,
Peter

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Kalle153 commented

Daily notes would be very nice. IMHO Single notes for each 15min Slot is way too much.

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Christopher Herberte commented

Notes for a selected range of slots would be nice. Admittedly I have only one client requesting more info on billed hours atm.
Awesome module anyhow.

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hanoii
Primary language Spanish
Location 🇦🇷UTC-3
commented

Hmm, daily notes might not be enough. Ideally I'd like to report not only time spent to different projects (nodes) but also what was done in that time. Daily notes would be only enough if you work for one single project/client per day, but yet not very flexible. Just speaking of what I think is ideal.

Christopher Herberte’s picture

Christopher Herberte commented

Suggestion: A bubbletimer per client (OG group?)
Cases (casetracker nodes) could then be attributed a group's bubbletimer effectively giving the same result and a great addition Atrium.

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mlncn commented

Subscribing. I recommend continuing to follow Bubbletimer.com, which has notes per activity per day. (It also has one note for overall per day.)

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leilyrken commented

subscribing

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tamasd commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-2.x-dev
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The 7.x-2.x branch is under a heavy refactoring. If I will have some spare time, I'll gladly include this feature.

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DanGarthwaite commented

It is now January 13, 2012. How is that refactoring going?

Also, subscribing.

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DanGarthwaite commented

Thoughts:

Make it a per-day per-project comment. A textarea above/below the bubble grid that displays the current comment for that project that day.

I've found that to be enough for other timecard systems. More formal clients get bug/ticket numbers in there, informal ones get one liners that are cut and paste into the invoice.

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Scheepers de Bruin commented
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There's a module in that. We've been using it for some time now.
Right click on a bubble, type, click save/clear.
Plays with views too.