Time tracking

We use the time tracking function in Monday. Time tracking is started when a task changes status.
What I am looking to do is have this paused at the end of the day and at weekends as I can have a task that someone starts at the end of their day and then completes early the next day (say two hours effort) but the time tracker will have run all night.
I don’t want my devs pausing tasks as this is all set up with automations as previously mentioned.
Anyone know a way or integration that can stop the time tracker for evenings and weekends?
Thanks

You can do it with the workflow center. But you’d have to do it for each time tracker

Desiree - www.thecleverclovers.com

Thanks, it works but I’d need to be able to do in bulk.

Maybe take a look at make.com to see if it can be done via integration/API?

Hi @MattLindsley ! :waving_hand:
What can help, though, is using our Time in Status for monday.com to report accurately on time spent during working stages and quickly spot/adjust “overnight” runs in your reporting (so your totals reflect business hours rather than wall-clock time). For actually stopping/starting the timer on a schedule, the best route is a native automation + an integration (e.g., Make/Zapier) to toggle the Time Tracking column at set times (end of day / resume next morning).

Hey Matthew,

Have you made any progress toward your automation?

I think it’s difficult, and likely impossible, to achieve. As far as I know, monday does not allow you to start a timer on someone else’s behalf -- not via automations or workflows, nor via monday’s official API, and consequently, Make/Zapier.

You can stop all running timers on a board using one of Automato’s automations, but your devs will have to start the timer manually when they come in. Alternatively you can try Mariia’s reporting approach too, of course, to ignore time tracked outside business hours :index_pointing_up:

Every day at 6 pm for every running Time tracking stop Time tracking

Best of luck with your workflow :slight_smile: