Worklog Categories
In addition to standard time logging in ActivityTimeline, users get the opportunity to assign the worklog to a certain category of work. This later can be used in Timesheet reporting to differentiate the time spent by your employees.
By default, users have just 2 categories: Billable and Non-Billable, but you can add up to 100 categories in ActivityTimeline Configuration→Timesheet Config:
Note: by default, all the worklogs submitted both through ActivityTimeline & Jira (including 3rd party apps) will be displayed as ‘Billable’ in ActivityTimeline, but if you’d like to change the default category, you can simply re-name the ‘Billable' category to any category of your choosing.
Log time in Jira
As mentioned previously the time submitted in Jira will be shown as ‘Billable’ (i.e. the category #0 in Timesheet Config), but you can also submit it as Non-Billable (i.e. category #1 in Timesheet Config), simply by adding the “~” symbol in front of the comment while submitting the worklog in Jira:
The system will read it and show and properly categorize such worklogs:
Timesheet reports with Worklog Categories
It is possible to generate Timeline & Detailed Timesheet reports and group the data by Category so that you can understand how much time is getting consumed by each type of work.
For this go to Track module->Open 'Advanced' tab and choose Group by Category:
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