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I am seeking an overview of how "Time Tracking" works.

1 - When does the issue time tracking begin and end? From issue creation or from the transition to assigned state to issue closed state?

2 - Are there reports for project time totals for all project issues? Or project category totals?

Thanks for a great software development tool!

Time Tracking could be a useful feature to aid our future software work estimation once we had a few years of time tracking for each implemented feature and total for each project. A short Wiki article on the Mantis Time Tracking feature would be wonderful.

1 - After upgrading from 1.2.4 to 1.2.10 I created a new project named "Test Time Tracking"
2 - Create issue named "Get coffee" and assign to myself
3 - Resolve issue in 10 minutes
4 - Created issue "Go to Lunch" and assign to myself
5 - Resolve issue in one hour
6 - With project selected, I select "TIme Tracking" on the menu bar
7 - Set Start Date to an older date in 2011 then pressing the "Get Time tracking Information" button returns zero for a test project I created.

I expected to see total of elapsed times of all issues from the time issue assigned to issue resolved or closed. Is my understanding correct? Is additional settings that need to be enabled?

Thanks for any advice,

-Ed

File: config_inc.php
/*****************
* Time tracking *
*****************/
// Turn on to see if this feature may be useful
$g_time_tracking_enabled = ON;
$g_time_tracking_with_billing = OFF;
$g_time_tracking_stopwatch = ON;
$g_time_tracking_view_threshold = DEVELOPER;
$g_time_tracking_edit_threshold = DEVELOPER;
$g_time_tracking_reporting_threshold = MANAGER;
$g_time_tracking_without_note = ON;

Never mind. I found the issues Time tracking (HH:MM) start, stop, reset button.

I expected time elapsed was triggered on state transitions. That probably does not make sense considering the interruptions in work that occur daily. Anyway, this feature looks promising for the manager types that want to track what us developers are doing.

Thanks for a great application and new features !