Time tracker alerts

Feature requests
1

The time tracking column feature in Monday is really useful and our team uses it throughout their working day. However, it would be great if it had some additional features (listed below).

  • Could an alert be set up for when you start a timer on one pulse but already have one running on another pulse? At the moment, it’s possible to have more than one timer running at once which means our teams often duplicates time without realising. This makes our reporting inaccurate and takes a lot of extra time to go back and manually cross-check time trackers and correct everything.

  • Is it possible to set up an alert to flag when an individual session timer runs over a preset time (e.g. 2 hours)? So that it flags when someone’s left their timer running. Again, at the moment team members often forget to turn off their timers, which affects our reporting and we need to spend time manually updating everything.

While these features are being considered, does anyone know of a workaround or a way to use automations to prevent our inaccurate time tracking issues happening?

2

Hi, has there been any movement on looking at this functionality please? We’re still having problems where our team members are forgetting to stop their time tracking which results in our reporting to clients being off. At present, our CEO is looking at other systems to use instead of Monday.com that incorporate this feature as it’s so important to us. Thanks.
@lauralev

3

Hello @jelitots !

Unfortunately the features you are requesting are not possible to implement, even by using monday’s API.

I want to ask though, does your team use a status column while working? Meaning for example changing the Status to Working on It while working on an item, and changing the Status to On Hold when not working on it.

If so, we can implement a solution that ties this column to the time tracker, starting and stopping it regarding on the status.

In combination with a monday app that essentially allows as to input the time a task should be worked on ( for example Task A1 should be worked on for 2 hours, so after changing the status to Working on it, 2 hours later it would revert to On Hold).

This way, your team members would only need to change the status once, while everything else would be done automatically.

If you are interested, please feel free to contact us at info@thespelas.com or schedule a Free Consulting Session with us here so we can discuss this further.

I hope our services can be of use to you!

Giannis, Implementation Consultant at thespelas.com