9. Time tracking

9.1. Tracking User Work Hours

The TACTIC system has built-in work hour tracking, which can be tracked per task or work hours can be entered manually.

By default, hours can only be submitted to a task by the user that task is assigned to. For example, if an asset has a pipeline process called "texturing" and this process is assigned to the user Albert, then only Albert can log work hours for this task.

Users log work hours in a task view with the "Work Hours" column.

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Hours can be logged and edited per day, per task.

To view the logged hours, go to the Work Hours view. (This view shows the hours for the user currently logged in.)

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In the Work Hours view, you will see an item per time entry with totals per day and per week based on hours logged on all assets.

To manually track work hours for other events (for example, daily meetings), click the insert button and fill in the options in the pop-up window:

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Options

Login

The login (user) who the hours are for.

Day

The day the hours are for.

Category

The category of work the hours represent.

Description

A description of what the time was spent on.

Straight Time

The amount of hours for the entry.

9.2. Gantt Widget

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Description

The Gantt Widget displays a horizontal bar graph representing the item’s start date, end date and duration. The bar graph can be clicked on and dragged to manipulate schedules for projects and task schedules. The widget has 2 view modes: weeks and months view.

Usage

*View modes:*Toggle the Gantt Widget between the 2 viewing modes by double clicking on the column header.

view mode: months

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view mode: days

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Start/End Date: Modify the start and end dates by left clicking and dragging them.

Hover Pop-up: Hover the cursor over the horizontal bars to pop-up a window that displays the dates of the schedule.

Shifting the bar: Click dragging the bar shifts the start and end dates bar while maintaining the duration.

Multi-selection Edit: First, check mark the items to be modified.

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Adjust multiple start dates: With multiple items selected, click drag on one of the start dates to adjust all the start dates simultaneously.

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Adjust multiple end dates: With multiple items selected, click drag on one of the end dates to adjust all the end dates simultaneously.

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Shift all the bars: With multiple items selected, click drag on one of the bars to shift all the start/end dates simultaneously while maintaining the duration.

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Shift the view: Click drag on an empty area of the Gantt Widget to the mouse left or right. The bars and the units will shift while maintaining their values.

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Scale the view: Hold down the shift key. Then, click and hold on an empty area of the Gantt Widget and drag the cursor to the left or the right. The bars and the units will scale while maintaining their values.

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9.3. Charting

Tactic includes supprt for charting views in your project in different charting formats. These charts supply visual representations of your data for use in reporting, statistics and data comparisions.

The various types of charts available are:

Line

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Bar

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Bar3D

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Some notes about charting

When creating a view to be charted, it is important that the view includes columsn which provide numerical based data. This data is required to allow the chart to draw correctly.

You are able to have multiple data values on the data axis of the chart. For example if you have a view of assets and want to iclude statistics on the total snapshots, total notes and total tasks the chart will be able to include all three.

Generating Charts

  1. First create a view you wish to chart, in this case we will be using a file usage view. This view shows the Mb usage and snapshot count for all of the assets in the project.

    image 2. In the table gear menu, there are 2 options: * Chart items - charts all items in the system for the particular Search Type (in this example assets) * Chart selected - charts all selected items in the view.

    image 3. In the gui, a chart will be generated with the assumed y-axis column being code and the x-axis being all other columns in the view. The setting for the cart can be further tweaked in the Chart specifications.

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Chart Specifications

search_type

The Search Type the chart is being generated for.

chart_type

The type of chart to generate. See the chart types below.

Y Axis

The column to use for the y-axis

X Axis

The column(s) to use for the x-axis

Saving Charts

Currently Charts cannot be saved. This will be included in a future release of Tactic.

Advanced

Axis Expressions

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The charting Gui supports using expression directly for the x-axis. To do so:

  1. In the chart specifications, hit the (+) to add a new x-axis value.
  2. In the text field provide an expression. For example {@COUNT(sthpw/note)}

    image 3. Refresh the chart and the expression will be evaluated as a column.

9.4. Tasks Quickstart

After inserting a new item into a project, often the first things to do is to create a new task, assign it and have the appropriate user work on it.

  1. Load any view of items you wish to track tasks for.

    image 2. If the task status edit column is not in your view, you can add it with the column manager or switch the Layout to "Task Schedule"

    image 3. If no tasks exist, click the (+) icon in the task status edit column. Another option is to select the items and choose Tasks → Add Tasks to Selected from the Gear Menu. Both approaches will load the task insert pop-up.

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    For now, click create tasks to create tasks for all process available in the pipeline.

    Note

    If a pipeline has not been set up for the particular sType you will not see any processes available in the UI. This will require building a pipeline which is covered in the TACTIC Setup Documentation

  2. Once tasks are created, you will be able to assign them to users, assign dates, priority etc.

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