For quite some time TEMPO Timesheets have been, and still is, the "go to" solution for time tracking related needs in Atlassian ecosystem. We, as OBSS, are using and promoting TEMPO Timesheets to our customers for a long time and are always satisfied with the results. You have to give it to them: TEMPO has done a great job on this. Now it is time for us to get onboard and extend the solution.
As you know, 'TEMPO Timesheets' allows us to make future work plans for your team members and you can see those plans in their calendars. So far, this has been a manual process. Somebody had to create that plan time manually. In most JIRA configurations (especially in those used for project management) it is common to see fields for work estimation and schedule dates (start and finish dates) on each JIRA issue and some of our customers expressed their need to automate the creation of plans on calendar. After all, we have all the data we need on JIRA issues.
We are happy to announce the availability of our "Auto Planner for TEMPO Timesheets" plug-in for JIRA. Auto Planner, as the name suggests, automatically creates and updates plans in users' calendars based on information on JIRA issues that are assigned to them. Instead of manually creating the plan, Auto Planner creates it for you. When something changes Auto Planner updates it for you.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration is very simple and straightforward.
First you select which issuetypes AutoPlanner should watch. And you give 3 more fields on JIRA that are to be used for...
Plan Start Date
Plan End Date
Plan Time (Estimated Effort)
AUTO PLANNER IN ACTION
After configuration all you need to to is to create an issue and fill in the required fields.
Then you will see the auto created plan in your TEMPO Timesheets calendar. The value given for estimated effort will be distributed among working days between start and end dates. Please notice that non-working days, as defined in TEMPO Timesheets calendar, will be skipped.
GREATER POSSIBILITIES
One great thing about Auto Planner; it is always listening for updates on issues, you don't have to trigger a create or update procedure in your post-functions. If any of these fields are updated, your calendar is updated automatically. This makes the plug-in very fast to configure and also allows you to use it with other plug-ins to create even greater value.
One such great potential is with the use of Ceptah Bridge plug-in for JIRA. (For those who have not used it yet: Ceptah gives you the ability of bi-directional sync between JIRA and MS Project) When you create issues from an MSProject file, it is pretty high odds that they will contain information about work estimates and schedule dates. When you configure Auto Planner to use these fields, any project plan pushed from MS Project will be created in people's calendars right away. Hundreds of issues in a snap. You do not need to do anything else. As we all know, project plans tend to change and when a single task changes it probably has a cascading effect on all tasks after it. Not to worry, when you push the updated plan from MS Project to JIRA, Auto Planner will update all calendar plan time entries for you.
CONCLUSION
I believe 'Auto Planner for TEMPO Timesheets' is an easy to use, easy to configure tool that will prove itself to be really handy in many scenarios. It is already available on Atlassian marketplace and supports JIRA 6.2+ and TEMPO Timesheet 7.9+ . I hope you like it as much as we do.
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AutoPlanner for Tempo Timesheets
EXTENDING THE SOLUTION
For quite some time TEMPO Timesheets have been, and still is, the "go to" solution for time tracking related needs in Atlassian ecosystem. We, as OBSS, are using and promoting TEMPO Timesheets to our customers for a long time and are always satisfied with the results. You have to give it to them: TEMPO has done a great job on this. Now it is time for us to get onboard and extend the solution.
As you know, 'TEMPO Timesheets' allows us to make future work plans for your team members and you can see those plans in their calendars. So far, this has been a manual process. Somebody had to create that plan time manually. In most JIRA configurations (especially in those used for project management) it is common to see fields for work estimation and schedule dates (start and finish dates) on each JIRA issue and some of our customers expressed their need to automate the creation of plans on calendar. After all, we have all the data we need on JIRA issues.
We are happy to announce the availability of our "Auto Planner for TEMPO Timesheets" plug-in for JIRA. Auto Planner, as the name suggests, automatically creates and updates plans in users' calendars based on information on JIRA issues that are assigned to them. Instead of manually creating the plan, Auto Planner creates it for you. When something changes Auto Planner updates it for you.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration is very simple and straightforward.
First you select which issuetypes AutoPlanner should watch. And you give 3 more fields on JIRA that are to be used for...
AUTO PLANNER IN ACTION
After configuration all you need to to is to create an issue and fill in the required fields.
Then you will see the auto created plan in your TEMPO Timesheets calendar. The value given for estimated effort will be distributed among working days between start and end dates. Please notice that non-working days, as defined in TEMPO Timesheets calendar, will be skipped.
GREATER POSSIBILITIES
One great thing about Auto Planner; it is always listening for updates on issues, you don't have to trigger a create or update procedure in your post-functions. If any of these fields are updated, your calendar is updated automatically. This makes the plug-in very fast to configure and also allows you to use it with other plug-ins to create even greater value.
One such great potential is with the use of Ceptah Bridge plug-in for JIRA. (For those who have not used it yet: Ceptah gives you the ability of bi-directional sync between JIRA and MS Project) When you create issues from an MSProject file, it is pretty high odds that they will contain information about work estimates and schedule dates. When you configure Auto Planner to use these fields, any project plan pushed from MS Project will be created in people's calendars right away. Hundreds of issues in a snap. You do not need to do anything else. As we all know, project plans tend to change and when a single task changes it probably has a cascading effect on all tasks after it. Not to worry, when you push the updated plan from MS Project to JIRA, Auto Planner will update all calendar plan time entries for you.
CONCLUSION
I believe 'Auto Planner for TEMPO Timesheets' is an easy to use, easy to configure tool that will prove itself to be really handy in many scenarios. It is already available on Atlassian marketplace and supports JIRA 6.2+ and TEMPO Timesheet 7.9+ . I hope you like it as much as we do.
Emre TOPTANCI
OBSS Atlassian Team Lead
emre.toptanci@obss.com.tr
atlassian@obss.com.tr