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TimeMachine User Manual

This document is a user manual for the RES Time Machine time tracking application. It describes how employees can automatically and manually track their time spent on various work items and projects. The application runs in the background to track time. Users can select the work item, date, time spent, and description for each record. The manual provides screenshots and explanations of the automatic tracing screen and editing past records. It also outlines future plans to improve default values and filtering of backlog items.

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TimeMachine User Manual

This document is a user manual for the RES Time Machine time tracking application. It describes how employees can automatically and manually track their time spent on various work items and projects. The application runs in the background to track time. Users can select the work item, date, time spent, and description for each record. The manual provides screenshots and explanations of the automatic tracing screen and editing past records. It also outlines future plans to improve default values and filtering of backlog items.

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RES Software Confidential

User manual
RES Time Machine

Version: 1.1
Changed: 20-08-2008
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Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................4
General..........................................................................................................4
Automatic trace..............................................................................................5
Manual edit....................................................................................................6
Future development........................................................................................7
Research and Development................................................................................8

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Change history

Date Version By Remarks


15-08-08 1.0 Jeroen van de Rovaart Initial version
20-08-08 1.1 Jeroen van de Rovaart Future development changed

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User manual: RES Time Machine

Introduction
This document is the user manual for working with the RES Time Machine. This manual
is divided in multiple chapters. The first chapter is a general chapter for all users.
Further on the chapters will be specific for different departments within RES, because
every department can have other items which they can register hours on.

General
The RES Time Machine is designed for employees of RES Software to register their
hours. The application will be an application which will run in the background to register
hours on the fly.
To register these hours a work item need to be selected to register hours on. It is also
possible to change these registered records afterwards.
The work item which is the same for all departments is the general tab. On this tab an
activity can be registered. An activity is something like: doctor, meeting, vacation, etc.
A registered record needs the following data:
 Work item
 Date
 Time; in hours and minutes
 Description
There are two ways to register a record:
 Automatically on the tracing screen.
 Manual on the edit trace record screen.

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Automatic trace

The above screen is used to trace your records automatically. When the application
starts it starts tracing on the last record found in the database for the logged in user.
When no record found the start time will be set, but the project details cannot be filled
in, so this need to be done manually.

This screen can be opened by double clicking the Time Machine icon in the system
tray. By clicking this icon with the right mouse button you can also open this screen by
selecting Open.

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When the correct data is entered this can be saved by clicking the save button. If a new
trace need to be started without saving the current trace the refresh button shout be
clicked.

Manual edit

By right clicking on the Time Machine icon in the system tray you can select history.
When you choose this item above screen will be started. This screen gives an overview
of all records within selected month.
These records can be deleted and edited by selecting the correct
button. A record can be added as well by using the add button.

When you click add or edit the trace screen will be shown.

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This screen is almost the same as the tracing screen, only in stead of a start and end
time, you have the actual work time available.

Future development
At this time there are no screens for maintaining activities and disciplines, so if you need
another discipline or activity you can ask Jeroen van de Rovaart to add them in the
database.
Default values for a time tracking record should be saved, so user can switch easily to
default values.
It would be a nice feature if you can filter the backlog items by state (open, done, etc)

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Research and Development


For R&D the project hours exists of work items from team foundation server. Here there
are several ways to register hours.
If you make hours on a sprint backlog item you need to fill in all dropdown boxes with
the correct data and the sprint backlog will appear in the dropdown. Items which are
orphans can be found by selecting all in the product backlog item dropdown.
If you are working on an item which is not in the current sprint, you can register this
time on the correct discipline. For example if you do research for a development item in
a future sprint, you can register this time on the project and the discipline development
by unchecking the iteration box.
If you need to register time which has no is not on the project you can register this time
on activity by unchecking the project box.

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