Monday.com Answers: How can I track time for multiple users on the same item?

Do you have multiple different people working on the same item and need to have each of their time sessions tracked? If so, in order to track time sessions for different users on the same item, each person can simply go in and press the start/pause button on the time tracking column of the same item on their own account, or click to enter a session manually!

Once completed, you can simply click into the cell of that given item to see a clear time tracking log of the sessions tracked from each user:

Voilà! You now have an easy way to track time spent on the same project for multiple different users on your account.

To read more on the Time Tracking Column, check out this article. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, this is a great news.

It seems that multiple users can not log their times simultaneously, which can happen if they work together/are in the same meeting/…
is there a plan to add that?

For now I did not I find how to use the data, unless I get the logs using api v2.
I would love to know how we can use that data in widgets.
It would be great if we could get the sum of time trackers for each user user for one or multiple boards.

It is a nice first step anyway, i am very happy about it.
Kind regards,
Laurent

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On a related note to this - if you have multiple people tracking time in the same column for an item, pay careful attention to your dashboard reporting for time tracking. In order to see accurate numbers for each user, you will need to group by “time tracking sessions”, not by people. Time by Time Tracking Sessi...

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Yes, multiple users need to be able to track time simultaneously for my purposes as well.

Thanks for the amazing work.

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This is great, a definitely a step forward. One thing that we would love to see the improvement on is that still, if we have a daily/weekly time tracking widget added for a person that shows the breakdown of the time spent on different projects each day/week - so we will select the “Text” column type to see the project names, it misses out anything that’s not on the person’s group… Is there any work around to this issue or any solution, please?

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February 2023 and this is still an open issue - is there anything on the horizon regarding this feature?

Hi @noy_s !

Thanks for posting this thread! Earlier, I was manually time-tracking the sessions of each user in my team. Later, I enabled the ‘Time Tracking widget’ integration in my monday com board to measure how much time the employees are taking for each activities. monday com time tracking integration displays the total time spent by the workforce on items across one or multiple boards—both on an individual level (for the people allocated)—and for the whole team. It’s ideal for resource management, ensuring work is distributed efficiently across the team, and simplifying reports for billable hours.

Regards
Neelam B
Damco Solutions
Phone: +1 609 632 0350 | Email : info@damcogroup.com

We really need a fix on this task!!!

This feature would be a really good addition, I agree. We currently have multiple columns, one for each developer but it would be better if we could have just one column.

Same here, when we have a single task with an app developer working together with a database developer at same time, we are duplicating the original one, and add a reference using “dependency” column.

Is there an update for this requested feature? We really need a way to track multiple users for a single task and assigning proper times to each.

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The overlapping session is a huge issue. We met with Team Monday and unfortunately, they said it wasn’t something on the horizon. There are add-ins (Tracket ) but their workaround is to create their own time column, completely separate from Monday’s time tracking, which means you need to rely on their limited widgets, etc and we weren’t ready to adopt that. It is also not inexpensive for a large number of users.

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I’m blown away that multiple users can’t track time at the same time. We have a meeting tracker board and I need multiple users to be able to track time at the same time. I wish I had known this before it’s really putting a wrench in plans for the monday.com platform.

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Hi, is simultaneous time tracking for multiple employees on the same project at the same time on the horizon yet? Or is that not on the product roadmap? REALLY need this functionality.

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@Jih @kwcuellar @carlos.oliveira @PolishedGeek @wordisbohn
Multiple users can now simultaneously record time directly on an item using Smart Timer and Team Tracking app which has the same look and feel as the native monday.com timer.

We had the same pain point with our service based business, we didn’t want them to have to log time as a subtask and we needed staff to work together on items at the same time, so we got our dev to build a solution which we have now released to the monday.com marketplace.

We also built in the ability for the team to see LIVE who is recording time on what, this helps us to manage our remote team and re-delegate work as needed.

We have only recently launched so if there are any tweaks that would help it better suit your business feel free to add to the live chat and we will see if we can roll it out in the next update.

Hi everybody :wave:
Thanks for sharing your method of tracking multiple users’ time on the same item. If you’re looking for a more automated and comprehensive approach to track time sessions from different users seamlessly, consider trying the Time in Status add-on for monday.

With Time in Status, you can effortlessly track and report each team member’s time spent on tasks without needing manual input. The add-on logs time automatically and generates detailed reports that can be easily reviewed, ensuring full visibility into each user’s contributions and optimizing collaboration on shared projects.

Also you will be able to track how much time your issue spends in each status and much more by generating 3 types of reports like:

:chart_with_upwards_trend: And use charts to visualize your reports a sample of a certain number according to time range/item range, or a single item:

  • Pie Charts
  • Bar Charts
  • Area Charts

The app is also available in the format of board integration.

You can try it on the Monday Marketplace and share your experience with us.
Hope you find this app helpful.