Waiting on the funtionality to be at the to manually track sessions that happened at the same time for multiple people. Is there any progress on this?
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Hi, our team members track their time in Monday on a monthly basis - they record their time as they work elsewhere and at the end of the month update Monday with the total time they spent on each task.
It looks like itās no longer possible just to manually add in the number of hours and minutes they have done - they have to choose a start and end time, which makes it harder to input their time. Please could the option be added for manually inputting the number of hours and minutes that have been done? Thanks.
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Did you try adding the subitem column to show on the parent item, then you can use that sub-item total within your formula?
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I too am experiencing issues with the time tracking in Monday. Just starting to get my team using it and only now am I realising the limitations of the time tracking. Similar to most users within this thread, the main issues I am facing are:
- More than one person cannot log hours to a task at the same time - This is really important for meetings
- Sub item time tracking is not counted within the dashboard time tracking widget
- No easy way to see where your timers are running
- No way to set up a notification that your timer has been left running
- Limit of 10 boards on a dashboard - there is no way for me to see overall hours logged for my team per week because we have more than 10 boards that we are tracking time on
- Require time and date for time logging which is not very user friendly.
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That doesnāt work for what Iām wanting to do. We donāt use the Time Tracking. We use Est. Hours and a number column. I want to list sub items with estimated hours number column and then have a formula on the main item to add up all the sub items estimated hours for a grand total. Seems simple enough but the formula for sub-items doesnāt list any number fields for some reason. Seems like it would be simple enough to add by development. I hope they add it!
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New to Monday and we are Just setting up our boards. We realized that when we have a meeting that involved more than 2 people, we canāt track time to it. The first person can track time to it but when another person tries to add the time manually it says āYou have an existing session as this timeā. Which is incorrect as the time tracking session belongs to my co worker but being on the same task does not allow anyone else to track the same time to that item.
I wonāt go into similar issues that have been mentioned above about multiple people tracking time to one item and not being able to run the timer for two separate people on the same task.
These time tracking issues seem like a large problem for agencies who are using monday for time tracking. In particular client meetings, reviews, etc.
This thread goes back for over a year. @Julia-monday.com @brett-monday.com has there been any process on these issues with time tracking? Can you provide a roadmap or a product plan for time tracking that you can share? Similarly to how the roadmap has been shared for sub items (Subitems Product Plan).
I have heard that development is based on feedback of the customers that are using monday. Is there a place where everyone who is having issues with time tracking can vote to allow your team to understand the need of this feature? Is is based off of the amount of āvotesā on this thread? Is so how many votes are needed for issue to be put into the monday development queue?
Thanks for the help! Looking forward to your response.
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Hello @monday-team,
Agreed with all the above. This column has a lot of potential, but definitely needs improvements before it can be used seamlessly.
Please provide an update on this item.
Thank you!
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Very much agree, this is also super important for us!
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Team - I have to jump on this bandwagon (again). Of all of the great things youāve created the implementation of the time tracking interface is not good! You donāt need to over think it, just allow a user the ability to more simply input a duration and make it the primary field (not at the bottom).
Date: put it in short form defaulting to todayās date
Time Worked: (duration in hours and support integers)
DONE.
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I know this wonāt be the right solution for everyone. One of our clients wanted the ability to enter time start and end in Hours columns, and have the time worked automatically calculated in Formula columns for hours:minutes and also hours with decimals, plus calculate pay. This combined with Item Permissions at the board level lets them have all of their staff entering time in one board, with total privacy per employee. monday Formula time tracking
In the image linked above, the columns boxed in purple are entered while the other columns are calculations.
I echo all of the above. My team is in the same boat as everyone else here. Time tracking is the number one frustration with Monday.com. Three things are currently making time tracking a pretty much useless endeavor.
- We need the ability to add times in parallel. e.g. two team members worked on the same task at the same time and need to be able to add their time to that task simultaneously. (Right now, weāre just picking random times that donāt conflict which is a pain).
- We need time tracking to work for Sub Items. Right now weāre abandoned them because time tracking isnāt there. Weād love to use them because they would make long, unwieldy lists much more user friendly, but without time tracking we cannot.
- The time tracking widget that breaks down times by individual never has the correct times. We donāt trust it and never have.
The community has been asking for these fixes for over a year. Can you PLEASE give us a roadmap and update on these features?? We are like many groups that have bailed on Monday. We are looking at other solutions because yours (with as many great features as it has) isnāt working for us and we need a better way to track time.
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I think its Time for us to receive a huge fix for this column.
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Cannot agree with this thread more. There are so many time tracking requests for improvements on this forum and for almost two years most of them are STILL outstanding.
In order to allow multiple users to track on one project (pulse) we add a subitem per user (automatically with automations) to every pulse, then have a time tracking column within those subitems. The total is then summarised in the parent item. This works! Two designers (or more) can track time to one pulse at the same time!
However, none of the dashboard widgets will access the summarised parent (total) value so we canāt get any kind of summary to tell us how much time has been tracked per user / per day / per week etc.
If you export the table data, the tracked time data is there, but the are no dates assigned to each time session so you canāt filter out todayās time or this weekās time. What is the point of collecting the days on which each timing session was undertaken if you then canāt export that data out? All you can get is a total value and nothing more detailed.
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In addition to thisā¦ the problem is that this columnā problems leaves all users alone to search alternative solutions to log hours per tasks:
- Numbers columns: not recommended. Cannot recognize users, , valid for 1 pulse only.
- Subitems: still in beta version, you cant automatize / duplicate / move items, etc.
- High/Low level boards with linked columns: too much work to log hours.
It would be so simple to have in this column all the features writed here, i dont know why we dont have any advances news on this.
One of the most important resources to control in proyects, field service, and too many other activities is timeā¦ And what we cannot measure we cannot improveā¦
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I contacted mdc support for your issue n.3:
- Fix the issue that two users cannot introduce a manual session on the same time/hour, if user nro.1 worked yesterday from 08am to 11am, user nro.2 cannot do it, and in real cases there are two people (or more) working for a task in the same time/day, so this has to be fixed. example: error message trying to add a session on the same time that my partner
They propose to āopen a column for each of the people who will need to track time in the board. You can always sum those time tracking columns if that is important using a formula columnā. This works as a workaround in our use case, expecially setting visibility for each user.
I can just suggest @Julia-monday.com and mdc team to to make an option: āduplicate this time tracking column for each member and sum them in a formula columā.
Thanks. I have already done that for our Boss team.
Problem is to log hours on our service field teamā¦ they are at least 30 technicians.
So, adding 30 timetracking individual columns its not an option i will take.
I think by the time this issues are opened (almost 2 years) here and via support, they would be fixed at these days.
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Totally agree with many of the sentiments in this thread. Weāve offloaded most of our company because of this one issue. Tracking time is extremely important as outlined constantly by everyone hereā¦ we love Monday otherwise (especially for its visual aspect) but have to look elsewhere for the time being. I will keep track to see if this is eventually fixed, but 2 years is a long time for one of the most crucial aspects of PM/Ops.
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Any updates on this Monday Team? Tracking individual time on the same task at the same time (same line item) is very important. I hope the Monday developers can make an algorithm that assigned people can simultaneously and independently log their time in one time tracking column.
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THIS! For me as a project manager itās a pain in the ass. We have a 3 hours team meeting with 10 people and everybody has to track time. Oh damn, a day only got 24 hours. There is no way that everybody tracking time on the same day. Iām furious nothing happens here. 
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Absolutely. I thought this feature only takes some easy coding from the Monday developers.
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