Activity Based Tracking

As opposed to projects, which in general define major categories of work, Activities define types of work. For example, the administrator for Bill's House Painting might define the following activities: washing, sanding, priming, painting, and cleaning up. TimeScope does not require that you to track activities in a project. By default, time entries are recorded as "unspecified" activities. However, if you wish to manage and track activities, you can do so in two different ways. You can embed sets of activities within your projects, or you can define a global set of activities which can be referenced by multiple projects.

Embedded Activities appear within projects as indented subitems (tasks) which can be expanded and collapsed using familiar explorer style plus and minus buttons. You create embedded activities via the Projects menu command. For expediency, you can create template projects containing activities and simply copy and paste them to avoid having to reenter activities when you create new projects. From the timesheet view, activities are indented below the parent project or subproject.

Global Activities are created via the Activities list which is maintained under the Properties menu command. Global activities can associated with all projects for time reporting. When the activity column has been placed on the timesheet style, timekeepers use the Insert Duplicate Line command to enter time for multiple activities charged to a project item.

Note: You can specify the set of available activities for any project item via the classification tab of the project form. Similarly, you can specify a timekeepers set of available activities via the timesheet tab of the employee form.