Time spent

In Yandex Tracker, you can keep track of the time spent on issues. With time tracking, you can plan project deadlines and budgets more effectively and identify the problem areas in how your team handles the issues.

You can choose from two time tracking options:

In Yandex Tracker, you can keep track of the time spent on issues. With time tracking, you can plan project deadlines and budgets more effectively and identify the problem areas in how your team handles issues.

Basic time tracking

Basic time tracking offers three parameters for estimating work effort:

  • Original Estimate. We recommend specifying the time you plan to spend on the issue before you begin.
  • Estimate. Use this field to estimate how much longer you plan to work on the issue.
  • Time Spent. This field displays the total of all entries about spent time.
How the Estimate field value changes

If the Estimate field contains a value, it updates with each new Time Spent entry:

  • If you leave the Original Estimate field empty, whenever you add a new time entry, the value of the Estimate field will decrease by the specified amount of time.

  • If the Original Estimate field contains a value:

    When the Time Spent value is greater than the Original Estimate, the value of the Estimate field decreases by the difference between the other two fields.

    Subsequently, whenever you add a time entry, the value of the Estimate field will decrease by the specified amount of time.

Logging spent time

  1. In the upper-right corner of the issue, select Select action → Add time spent.

  2. Fill in the Time Spent field.

    If you omit the unit, the field will default to the time unit specified in the queue settings. For example:

    • 1 week and 3 days: 1w 3d.
    • 3 hours, 20 minutes, 30 seconds: 3h 20m 30s.

  3. Fill in the other fields if needed:

  4. Click Save.

You can add multiple entries, and the specified time will be added together. In basic tracking mode, you can only change Time Spent entries using API requests.

Time spent can be specified by the assignee or other users with access to the issue. The report on time spent shows a separate total for each employee who logged time for the issue.

Viewing time spent

You can view the time spent in the Time Tracking parameters on the issue page or in the report on time spent.

If the issue doesn't feature Time Tracking parameters, add them:

  1. At the bottom of the section with issue parameters, click Edit parameters list.

  2. In the Time Tracking category, select Time Spent and Estimate.

Advanced time tracking

For advanced time tracking in the Yandex Tracker mobile app:

  1. Open the time tracking section using one of the following methods:

    • In the upper-right corner of the issue, select Select action → Add time spent.

    • Open the issue page, go to Parameters, and then go to Time Tracking.

  2. Fill in the Time Spent field.

    If you omit the unit, the field will default to the time unit specified in the queue settings. For example:

    • 1 week and 3 days: 1w 3d.
    • 3 hours, 20 minutes, 30 seconds: 3h 20m 30s.
    • 4 hours and 30 minutes (if you set minutes as the time unit): 270.
    • 4 hours and 30 minutes (if you set hours as the time unit): 4.5 or 4,5.

  3. Fill in the other fields if needed:

  4. Click Save.

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