{"id":1118,"date":"2015-11-16T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlineinvoices.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T10:21:27","slug":"how-to-track-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvoices.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/how-to-track-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Track Your Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before you can start tracking your time you will first need to create a “Project”<\/strong> and an “Activity”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Start tracking your time:<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Through the “Time Tracking”<\/strong> tab, select the “Time Tracking”<\/strong> option.<\/li>\n
  2. Determine a specific day on the “Calendar”<\/strong>.
    \n\"track-your-time\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Click the “New Entry”<\/strong> button at the top right corner.
    \n    \"Add-time\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Select a “Project”<\/strong> and an “Activity”<\/strong>, and add your time manually in the “Time field”<\/strong> or start the “Timer”<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  5. Add any “Notes”<\/strong> related to the task.<\/li>\n
  6. Click the “Add”<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How to import a list of time entries from a CSV file.<\/h2>\n
      \n
        \n
      1. Open the Excel program<\/li>\n
      2. At the first row add the fields “Project”, “Activity”<\/strong>, “Time”<\/strong>, “Date”<\/strong> and “Description”<\/strong> into the A1…E1 fields.<\/li>\n
      3. Beneath every field fill out all the details as showing in the figure below.<\/li>\n
      4. The “Time”<\/strong> Field must be added in either one of these two ways:\n
          \n
        1. 2.5 which means two and a half hours.<\/li>\n
        2. 2:30 which also means 2 and a half hours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        3. The “Date”<\/strong> field must be formatted as your system’s date format so in this case, we will use the DD\/MM\/YYYY format.\"excel-time-tracking\"<\/a><\/li>\n
        4. After you add all your items save the excel file as CSV (Comma delimited.)\"save<\/a><\/li>\n
        5. Log in to your online invoices account.<\/li>\n
        6. Through the “Time Tracking”<\/strong> tab select the “Time Tracking”<\/strong> option.<\/strong><\/li>\n
        7. Click the marked in blue “Import”<\/strong> button at the top right corner.\"importing-icon-time\"<\/a>
          \n<\/a><\/p>\n

          The importing wizard will start:
          \nStep 1 Import Options:<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

          \"project-step1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

            \n
          1. Determine the file that will be imported (the CSV file we previously saved.<\/li>\n
          2. Through the Delimiters tab, Select the “Comma Separated”<\/strong> option.<\/li>\n
          3. Tick the “Import First Row”<\/strong> check box. If your file contains the same field labels at the first row so in this case, we will not tick the check box.<\/li>\n
          4. Click the “Next Step”<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Step 2 Fields Mapping:<\/h3>\n

            \"import-time2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

              \n
            1. We will map the fields (Columns) on the imported file to the corresponding fields on the system.<\/li>\n
            2. Select a corresponding field in the file for each system field as showing in the above figure.<\/li>\n
            3. If you entered a new “Project”<\/strong> or “Activity”<\/strong> then it will be saved on the system.<\/li>\n
            4. Click the “Import”<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Step 3 Importing:<\/h3>\n

              \"Import-projectstep-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

                \n
              1. The system will take a few seconds to import the fields and save them.<\/li>\n
              2. Refer back to the “Time Tracking”<\/strong> page to check the imported items.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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