Tempo 6.2 Release Notes

Time Planning

User's time can be allocated to projects, versions, and components. The allocated time can then be displayed in timesheets, dashboard gadgets, and project and version pages.

The timesheet planning feature helps users and managers to get an overview of their and team's schedule and can aid in log work entry. User timesheet displays planned work for each user while team timesheet shows schedule for the entire team across multiple projects. The project timesheet gives an overview of who is planned to work on the project in a given period and is broken down to activity.

Tempo gadgets can be placed on the dashboard and on a Confluence page. They show planned versus worked time for each user. The Team Hours gadget displays planned, worked, and required hours for each team member. The People in Version gadget displays planned and worked hours for each user working on a particular version. The gadgets are great for teams and executives to track overall planned and worked time and looks great on a wallboard.

Project and version pages now also support overview of worked and planned time through the new People tabs. The People tabs display aggregation of hours for each project member broken down to activities (version and components or unscheduled).

Allocate Tempo Users to Projects, Components and Versions

Tempo admins can allocate team members to projects, components, and versions from the Plan Time dialog. Allocating a user is similar to logging work. Each allocation planned requires date or dates as well as hours per day planned and the allocation can contain an optional description. When allocating to a version or a component, a project must be selected first.

Tempo Users can Plan Their Own Time

It is useful for users to plan their own time, especially to plan non-working activities such as vacation. The recommended approach is to have a special vacation component in an internal project or a seasonal vacation version (e.g. Vacation Summer 2011) that users can plan time to using the Plan Time button.

Planning functionality is also accessible through activities in the timesheet and is simple to add by dragging the appropriate dates to pop up the Plan Time dialog for that activity. Allocations can also be edited through the inline dialog functionality in timesheets.

Planning Status Displayed in Timehseet

It is important for users to get a quick overview of their schedule and the new planning features in Tempo Timesheets aid the user by displaying activities he has been allocated to in his timesheet. The activities in User Timesheet are displayed by default if planning is enabled but can be turned off on per user. The activities show the sum of worked hours per day as well as an allocation status bar. The orange colour denotes the allocation load of the user based on his required hours for the day and the green colour displays how much he has worked relative to the allocation. Allocation can also be adjusted just like worklogs by clicking on the day cell.

Team and Project Planning Overview in Timesheet

The Team and Project timesheets have received a slight facelift to give a better overview of what users have been working on and are planned to work on. The Team Timesheet is now grouped to each user's activity, showing worked hours and the allocation status bar in each day cell. The Project Timesheet uses the same format in Project Overview but drills down to issues in Version and Component timesheets.

Managers can easily plan time in the timesheets by selecting cells in a row and the Plan Time dialog pops up with the current context.

Worklog Date Validation

New admin function to find out why a user can´t log work or edit worklogs on a specific date.

The reason why a user can or cannot add or edit a worklog depends on a combination of the following:

• Tempo period status
• Timesheet Workflow status
• Tempo Scheduler settings
• User status
• Issue Type and Issue Permission

In the new Date Validation view you get a list of all these factors and how it affects the end result.

New In-line Editing Dialogs

In line day view dialog has been added to the User Timesheet if Tempo planning is enabled.

This will give users a quick overview of the worked and planned hours for the selected date.

The in-line edit dialog that is displayed in the User Timesheet call view has been improved giving users an option to Move, Split or Delete a worklog. Users can also edit or delete planned time here if the feature is enabled.

Note Worklog actions in in-line dialogs are not supported in JIRA 4.2

Time Spent Exceeded Icon Displayed in Tempo Reports

Issues with time spent more than original estimate is flagged in Tempo reports. If you hover over the icon the values of Original estimate and Time Spent is displayed.

People Pages

The planning module adds new tabs to project and version pages named "People" that displays high level information about planning.

The People tab on a project page displays people who have been planned on that project, either on project level or directly on a version or a component.

The People tab on a version page displays people who have been planned on that version as well as people who have logged work on that version. Tempo admin can allocate users directly to the version or a project by selecting the user in the user picker.

The project timesheet and GreenHopper's planning board are accessible from the Views menu.

Improvements in Tempo Report Excel Export

We are constantly improving the tools in Tempo so our users can generate report that has great value.

In this version the following has been added to the excel export

• User´s full name added to the export
• Original estimate and remaining estimate
• Issue type
• Issue status
• Project name

If Tempo admin can set billed hours is enabled in Tempo Global Configuration users can select what is displayed in Tempo Reports.

Tempo Services Improvements

New parameters

• addIssueDetails=true\|false - returns the issue's original estimate, remaining estimate, issue type, issue status, project name component and version
• addWorklogDetails=true\|false - returns the worklog creation date and last updated date
• addUserDetails=true\|false - returns user details such as user full name
• userName=userName - Filter by dates and userName only
• billingKey=ExpenditureItemId - Filter by dates and expenditure item (billing key) only
• projectKey=projectKey - Filter by dates and project key only

For more information and examples check out the Tempo Servlets Manual page on our wiki.

Input Field Worklog Attribute

In Tempo 6.1.1 we introduced new worklog attribute of type Input Field. This field allow users to add free text as attribute when creating worklogs.

Improvements and Fixes

• Sub-issues are displayed with Parent Key as a prefix like in JIRA issue navigator
• Tempo admin can view estimation status on issue level in order to make adjustments - Requested by e-mail
• Configuration "Tempo admin can set billed hours" does not work .... JTMPO-231
• Users are not able to edit Worklogs from the Cell View in User Timesheet for internal issues.... JTMPO-229
• Unable to adjust worklog description for past periods JTMPO-228
• Including Component Name for XML Services in tempo_getWorklog servlet JTMPO-157
• Editing/ Reporting off of Worklog Attribute in Tempo JTMPO-86
• Data duplicated on the calendar, error when trying to delete hours in the day JTMPO-121
• Datepicker does not work correctly from view issue page JTMPO-212
• content cut off in IE due to scroll bars JTMPO-230
• Worked time is 0 on Tempo Team Hours Gadget JTMPO-234
• Allocated time is not properly rounded in Tempo Team Hours Gadget JTMPO-235
• Only two first letters should be shown as people initials JTMPO-236
• Visually Highlight Entire Row - Timesheet User Worklog JTMPO-171
• Tempo admin can print a report that only shows the billable hours - Requested in our User Voice
• Let me choose to see "my work / total req. work" ..... / User - Requested in our User Voice
• Allow moving and splitting of worklogs from the timesheet - Requested in our User Voice