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Timers, timesheets and reported time over a selected period

If I have a timer for a task that takes a long period of time, or runs over the course of a time period, the timesheet report by employee becomes inaccurate as it reports all the time for this timer rather than just the time accrued within the requested timeframe.

 

To reproduce:

1) Start a new timer (for a particular employee) and record a few minutes of time in the current month.

2) Pause the timer

3) Edit the same timer and add some time for the previous month

4) Then go to Time Sheet -> View Time Sheet and select the time sheet for the employee from step 1

5) This will show all times for this employee and correctly show the complete time the employee has been on this timer

6) Now limit the timesheet to the current month

7) The timesheet shows the total time for this timer including the time from the previous month

8) If you change the date range to the previous month the timer will not be present at all (as if the employee did no work that month!)

 

I have attached screenshots of 7 and 8.

Obviously the way around this is to have the employee use a new timer each time they work on the task which would work well until you introduce rounding, at which point you get the same problem I have mentioned here: http://support.oranged.net/entries/20293681-should-rounding-apply-to-cost-rate

So every time a new time is started the employee is going to have (for example) 30 minutes added to their timer due to rounding.

It would be great if the time sheets showed exactly the time as recorded based on the to/from dates regardless of start/finish date of the timer itself.




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