Time Tracking???
Does RDM have any sort of build in Time tracking available to make use of???
Im looking for a way to log my session time. I was trying out Toggl but manually starting and stopping the timer didnt really work as i ended up forgetting or not switching projects, i then looked into the Toggl API but i dont know enough about coding to make and sense of that. I then looked for Powershell scripts to interact with the Toggl api, i tried PSToggl but it didnt seem to work either.
I know you can trigger scripts from each session but like i say im not a developer so I dont know enough to code something myself, If anyone has a way to log time in RDM id love to hear how you did it and look at borrowing your idea myself. Toggl API would work if i could code.
Look forward to hearing from anyone who has a solution i can use.
Thanks
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)
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Hello,
If you look in the activy logs, you will see two columns of interest to you, from Commands > View > View > Activity Logs
Active Time
Only available for sessions in embedded mode. It will record your session active time, meaning the time your session was opened in embedded mode and you were active in your session. If your session is opened but your view is on your Dashboard tab and not on your session tab, no Active Time will be recorded.
Duration
Only available for sessions in embedded mode. When sessions are opened in embedded mode the Duration time will be recorded, meaning that even if your view is on your Dashboard and you are not actively working in your session but your session tab is opened, Duration will record how long it was opened for.
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Just to highlight that this works only for the EMBEDDED display mode. Active time records only when the tab is topmost, so its probably the one you are looking for.
If you are not running embedded, RDM doesnt have control so cannot keep track. One could devise a script that monitors windows processes, but the complexity of such a solution is quite high.
Best regards,
Maurice
Is that view only available in certain Data Source types?? Im using Devolution's online drive and its not there?
I worked it out in the end, that activity log seems to only be available for local data source but i use Devolution's Online drive which doesn't seem to have that same log. Does that mean i either have to migrate my data or find an alternate method to track the session time?
Thanks
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)
Indeed, it must be a DB backed datasource: SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, etc
Maurice