Time & Effort is a free and simple open source extension. We use it internally for our projects and wanted to make it public as open source for everyone to use and improve.
This extension does not rely on any external services -- all data is stored in your VSTS account. We do not change any process settings.
- Left pane: entries for current item
- Right pane: entries for all children
Example: estimated 40hrs / used 8hrs
Example: Budget 250hrs -- 40hrs are estimated (=assigned) so far in items and 8hrs have been used
Will display a message box upon completion if more than 4 items were selected.
New items will be assigned to the same budget as their parent.
- Customers are used for budgets
- Roles are global
- Hourly rates for roles can be overridden per budget
- grouped by Budget
- grouped by Person
- adjust time filter (default is current month)
- simple Excel export
A tile containing bullet graphs and a link to an auto-generated query for each budget
- Not compatible with old IE versions (below 11 not supported at all, IE 11 has some layout problems)
- Better IE support is not planned, please use Edge, Chrome, Safari, or Firefox
- Tech-savvy people with access to your VSTS account can easily read (and modify) all data stored by this extension using the extension data service provided by Microsoft.
- To avoid this we would have to store all data in Work Items including extensive process customization, which is too much work and not our goal
- There is no undo!
- We implemented and used an importer for our existing time tracking data (from fields in Tasks) in an older project we migrated from an on-premise TFS instance, but it is disabled in this release -- check
Settings/TimesImportHub.ts
- Developing and testing extensions for VSTS is challenging, because the provided documentation is incomplete and not 100% up-to-date
- Created with Visual Studio Code