YouTrack Standalone 2018.2 Help

Time Tracking

JetBrains IDEs let you track the time you spend working on active tasks. When you connect your IDE to a YouTrack server, you can add the time spent as a work item to the issue that is associated with an active task.

This feature is supported in IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm, AppCode, CLion, Rider, and MPS.

Note that this integration only adds the spent time and an optional comment to work items. You must set the work item type manually in YouTrack.

Enable the Time Tracking Plugin

Perform this setup directly in your IDE. Configure this plugin on a per-project basis.

Prerequisites

This plugin depends on the Task Management plugin. To use the Time Tracking plugin with issues in YouTrack:

  • Install and configure the YouTrack Integration Plugin. This plugin lets you open YouTrack issues as tasks in your IDE and lets you connect to your YouTrack server. The Time Tracking plugin is enabled.

  • Alternatively, configure the built-in Task Management to connect to your YouTrack server.

To add work items to issues, the projects for your issues must have the Time Tracking feature enabled in YouTrack.

To enable the Time Tracking plugin:

  1. Open a project in your IDE.

  2. Open the Settings dialog.

  3. Open the Tools > Tasks > Time Tracking settings.

  4. Select the Enable Time Tracking option.

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  5. Click the OK button.

    • The Time Tracking plugin is enabled.

    • The Time Tracking tool window is added to your IDE.

Post Work Items to YouTrack

The Time Tracking plugin tracks the amount of time spent working on active tasks in your IDE. When your IDE is connected to a YouTrack server, you can add the spent time to a work item for the issue that is associated with an active task.

To post a work item to YouTrack

  1. Select the Time Tracking tool window in your IDE.

  2. Select the task that corresponds to the issue to which you want to add a work item.

  3. Click the Post work item to bugtracker icon.

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  4. In the Time Tracking dialog, update the parameters of the work item.
    timeTrackingIntegrationWorkItem

    Parameter

    Description

    Time Spent

    Set the amount of time spent for the work item. You can choose between the actual time spent or set a custom value.

    Comment

    Enter text to add as a comment to the work item.

  5. Click the OK button.

    • The time tracking data is posted as a work item to the related issue in YouTrack.

      ide time tracking integration issue

Last modified: 7 March 2019
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