High-level Overview
ActivityTimeline add-on helps organizations to better plan and manage teamwork, schedule events, vacations, bookings, track workload, generate timesheets and other reports.
ActivityTimeline introduces four main modules for the regular user:
Plan
ActivityTimeline Plan page for a regular user is a dashboard with Issues (left) panel and Timeline (right) panel.
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Issues Panel
Issue Panel contains Filter, Group, Sort and Extra tabs for easier searching and managing. On the Issues panel each JIRA ticket appears in a separate blue bar.
Estimation, status, priority and task type can be definite according to the marking on a ticket.
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Timeline Panel
Timeline Panel allows managing the current and future tasks. It has a table view with each row corresponding to one person with his/her timeline, and each column corresponding to a particular day of a week.
Timeline Panel allows to create and organize the Jira tasks and events on a dashboard.
Timeline view possible to customize to oversee the process. Several timeline options are available from the Calendar dropdown list: Week, Two Weeks, Month-Daily, Month-Weekly, Two Months, Quarter, Half a Year, Year, and Compact View.
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Main functionality:
easy drag-n-drop of the tickets to the Dashboard;
scheduling the tasks to the users;
bulk rescheduling;
creating Jira tickets directly from the timeline;
creating custom events, placeholders, bookings;
issue dependency tracking;
vacation planning;
tasks approving;
estimation;
workload tracking;
worklogs;
users' availability tracking;
see all necessary information from Issue and User Cards;
managing of users, teams. projects and much more.
Work
Every user of ActivityTimeline has his own working space for the basic daily work needs.
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Main functionality:
tracking tasks on a daily basis;
organize tasks;
issue dependency tracking;
log work, edit and delete them directly from your page;
tracking your progress;
issue dependency tracking.
Track
Timesheet is a big functionality in ActivityTimeline that helps managers with a quick overview of logged time.
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Main functionality:
customize the view options so it displays exactly what you need;
track the logged time;
approve timesheets;
create favorites timesheets for later use;
edit worklogs directly from the details view
export to excel.
Report
ActivityTimeline add-on allows generating the reports based on a workload, skills level, availability, and timesheet reports in web and Excel.
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ActivityTimelines' reports provide an overview of the work process:
in planning: by person/team/project workloads and worklogs, skill/level/team/person availability;
in time sheets: by issue/project team worklogs;
in tracking: issue/project progress, vacation report.