The Time tracking module is one of the most deeply integrated project modules in Redmine. Therefore, you can see overall time values in many places in its interface. That's also why we will use this section to review how time entries are used and where they can be found.
This section will be of interest mainly to managers, but other users who track their time using Redmine should find some interesting information here as well.
Tip
The Invoices plugin
The Invoices plugin by Kirill Bezrukov can be used to generate invoices using hours specified in time entries. Note, however, that you need the commercial PRO version for this. Check out the plugin at: http://redminecrm.com/projects/invoices.
If an issue has time entries, the grand total of all hours of all time entries for the issue will be displayed on the issue page in the Spent time attribute, as shown in the following screenshot:
Here, the number of hours (that is, 5.00 h) is a link. If you click on it, you will be redirected to the time report for the issue (we will discuss time reports later in this chapter).
If a version has issues associated with it (through the Target version attribute of the issues), the grand total of all hours of all time entries for these issues will be displayed on the version page, as shown in this screenshot:
Here, 5.00 hours is just text and not a link. Also note Estimated time, which is the grand total of all estimated hours for these issues. In this way, you can easily compare the estimated and the spent times of the version using this page.
The grand total of all hours ever entered for the project is shown in the sidebar of the project overview page, as follows:
I'm not sure whether anyone needs this value, but you can find really useful links below it. Thus, the Details and Report links point to the time report that will be reviewed in the next section. The Log time link has been mentioned earlier—it opens the form used to add time entries.
Time entries that were entered for a project can also be seen on the project activity page, which is available under the project's Activity tab. Additionally, all time entries for all projects can be seen on the global activity page, which can be opened by clicking on the Overall activity link. This link can be found on the global Projects page (the top-left menu). But, to be able to see time entries on these pages, you need to enable the Spent time filter on their sidebars. Also, the user's personal activity feed can be found on the user's profile (this page is opened when you click on the user's name).
In all of these activity feeds, time entries are displayed as shown in the following screenshot:
If you click on the title of the event, that is, on 2.00 hours (Chapter #8 (In Progress): Time Tracking), you will be redirected to the time report for issue #8. Below the title, you can see the comment for the time entry. However, the date and time of the event refer to the date when the user added the time entry and not when the user worked on the issue.
