This Plugin provides the capability to submit Time & Expense within redmine. The user must be a member of a project with permission to log time. If the user has ‘Edit time logs’ permission, then he can manage other team member’s Time & Expense as well.
This plugin uses the existing Time Entry model for Time sheets and has its own model called Wk Expense Entry for Expense Sheets. New Time & Expense sheets can be entered using the link ‘New sheet’, new issues can be added to the Sheets using the ‘Add Row’ link. Users without Edit permissions cannot edit/delete time & expense entries.
The time & expense sheets can be exported into pdf and csv format.
The following configurations can be made on the plugin - size of the dropdown components - inclusion of previous week’s closed issues - check for max daily hours - check for min daily hours - parameters of pdf export - Allow Blank Issue - Show Work time Header - Enter comment in Row - Enter Custom Field in Row - Use Detail Time Entry Popup - Use Approval System - Enter Issue as id / subject - Filter issues by tracker - Allow Own Time & Expense Sheet Approval - Number of weeks to consider for previous week template - Send email for non submission - Set submission deadline - Set projects for expense - Allow User filtering to My Issues - Public holidays can be configured - ‘Approve time log’ permission The Time & Expense sheets can be approved/rejected by supervisors after it is submitted by Project Members. Here is the workflow of Approval system.. i) In addition to the Save button there is also a submit button ii) A team member can save a time & expense sheet any number of times, but can only submit once. iii) Once a time & expense sheet is submitted, the user with “Approve time log” permission can approve / reject it. In the mean time if he wants to take back his submission, he can unsubmit his time & expense sheet iv) Once approved, the time & expense sheet can never be edited. v) If the time & expense sheet is rejected, then it goes back to the project member for re-submission
An email about the rejection is sent to the Project Member.
vi) Once approved, a time & expense sheet can be unapproved, it sends the time & expense sheet back to submitted state. vii) If the timesheet is not submitted before deadline, then a email notification will be sent to the project memeber.
Time & Expense plugin supports REST API. It supports both xml and json. Using the api we can list time/expense sheets for a user, create, update and delete time/expense sheets. User with approve time log permission can approve, unapprove, reject time/expense sheets.
Unpack the zip file to the plugins folder of Redmine. Starting from version 1.2, it requires db migration. So run the following command for db migration
rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_wktime RAILS_ENV=production
When uninstalling the plugin, be sure to remove the db changes by running
rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_wktime VERSION=0 RAILS_ENV=production
This plugin uses js and css assets and it will be copied to public/plugin_asset/redmine_wktime folder upon server startup, so please make sure public/plugin_asset/redmine_wktime has proper access. The pdf export requires rmagick gem.
Starting from version 1.5, it requires the gem rufus-scheduler. so run the following command to install the gem bundle install For rufus-scheduler to work , the rails application should be up all the time. If an apache passenger module is used then make sure the following settings are made a) PassengerMinInstances 1 b) RailsAppSpawnerIdleTime 0 c) PassengerPreStart rails-app-url/
Release Notes for 1.7 Features: - Made compatible with Redmine 2.5.2 - Following permission changes were made: - The user with ‘Log spent time’ or ‘View spent time’ permissions will be able to see the Time & Expense list page. - The user with ‘Edit time logs’ permission is allowed to manage other member time/expense sheet.
- Following functionalities are available through REST api: - List time/expense sheet of all user - Delete entries in time/expense sheet Bugs: - Hours summed up for different custom values