You can use the time log editor to correct mistakes you might make when timing your activities. The time log editor can be opened by selecting the "Time Log" option on the configuration menu.
The left pane shows the current project hierarchy. Selecting various branches on the hierarchy will limit the time entries displayed to just those on the branch chosen.
Next to the name of each hierarchy node, the dashboard displays the total amount of time that has been logged against that node and all its children. If you apply a date filter (see below), these times will recalculate based on the filtered view of the time log. You can use the "Time Format" pulldown control to display these times in hours:minutes, decimal hours, or percentages (of either the total time, or the time logged to the parent of the node).
Above the split pane is a set of controls that provide date filtering on the time entries display. Once the desired span of dates has been chosen, clicking the "Apply Filter" button will restrict the data shown to the range of dates specified.
The Apply Filter button has a pulldown control that provides for several common date filters.
To the left of the "From" entry box and the right of the "To" entry box are double arrowed buttons. These buttons will jump the date filtering forward and backward by a unit of time equal to the current filtering date range. For example, if you have filtered the data in the Time Log such that only one week of data is showing, pressing these buttons will cause the filtering to move backward or forward by one week at a time.
In addition, you can enter dates directly in the "From" and "To" boxes to perform a customized date range.
To change data in the time entries, just pick on the element that you would like to change. The elements in the time entries pane are editable.
The "Logged To" column shows the project, task, and process phase to which the time was logged. If you select one or more table rows, you can drag them onto a different leaf of the tree to move them to a different task. (This is helpful if you logged time against the wrong task by mistake.) You can also move entries by highlighting rows, pressing Ctrl-X, highlighting a new task, and pressing Ctrl-V.
The remaining columns display editable data for each time log entry. The "Start Time" column shows the start date/time for the activity. The "Delta" column shows the length of time spent in the activity. The "Int" column shows the amount of time that the given activity was interrupted. The "Comment" column allows you to enter a comment for a particular time log entry.
The Add and Delete buttons allow the addition and deletion of time entries. When Add is chosen, by default the last entry in the time log will be copied into a new log entry. You can choose which entry will be copied to make the new time entry by picking one of the entries before clicking the Add button, or by highlighting the corresponding leaf of the tree.
The Save and Revert buttons will save the changes or revert the entries to their previous values.
The Summarize button will collapse all time entries that were logged to the same process phase into one entry. The Dashboard will create new entries each time that it starts recording time in a given process phase (i.e. when a process phase is left and then returned to again for more time measurement). This function will allow you to collaspe all duplicates entries in the current display.
The Time Card View button will display another view of the time data.
The Time Card View is handy if you work for an employer that makes you submit time cards or time sheets. You can open this window and refer to the data it contains as you enter data into your employer's time card.
At the top left, a pulldown and a text field allow you to choose the month and year to display. On the left side of the window is an abbreviated version of your hierarchy, containing only the nodes and tasks where you logged time during the selected month. Columns are displayed for the days in the month. Tooltips on the column headers display the corresponding day of the week, and the columns for Saturday and Sunday appear with a slightly different background color. Cells in the table display the amount of time logged by day and by task.
Two controls in the top center of the window allow you to customize the display. You can hide columns for days that contain no time data using the checkbox, and you can change the display time format using the pulldown.
You can choose to display time in hours:minutes, decimal hours, or minutes.