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Activities

Activities in Kimai are defining the current task you are working on.

Global activities vs project activities

Activities can be assigned to a project, which means you can only choose them if the linked project was chosen before. But activities can also be global, meaning they are not linked to a project and can be re-used with EVERY project and customer.

Examples for global activities are things like:

  • meetings
  • phone calls
  • administrative tasks

So tasks which repeat in each of your projects.

Activity colors

Each activity can be assigned its own color, for easier identification in the timesheets.

If no color is applied, the project color will be used.

See customer documentation for the default color.

Time budget

The Time budget field supports entering data in the following formats:

Format Description Examples
{hours}:{minutes}[:{seconds}] Seconds are optional, overflow is supported for every field 2:27 = 2 Hours, 27 Minutes / 3:143:13 = 5 Hours, 23 Minutes, 13 Seconds
{hours}h{minutes}m{seconds}s Each section is optional, overflow is supported for every field 2h = 2 Hours / 147m = 2 Hours, 27 Minutes / 3h14m13s = 3 Hours, 14 Minutes, 13 Seconds
{seconds}   3600 = 1 Hour / 8820 = 2 Hours, 27 Minutes

Time budgets are not used for hard limitations, but rather for the base of reporting calculations.

Visibility

By toggling the visibility on a activity, you:

  • hide the activity from all drop-downs, regardless of their visibility state
  • hide the activity from the default list in the activities administration

Please note:

  • all currently linked objects will still show the activity in the dropdown as pre-selected option
    • you can still change the activity on timesheet record, which used it before
    • you cannot create new timesheet records for this activity
  • you can still access the hidden entries by changing the visibility filter on the toolbars

The visibility filter in the toolbar has three state:

  • Visible: Yes (all activities that are “really” visible, meaning: the activity, linked project and customer are visible)
  • Visible: No (all activities that are exclusively invisible by their own visibility state)
  • Visible “empty” (all activities: not filtering on their own, the projects or customers visibility)

The search drop-down supports filtering by the fields:

  • customer
  • project
  • global / non-global
  • visibility

Besides these filters, you can query for a free search term, which will be searched in the fields:

  • name
  • comment

Additionally you can filter for custom fields by using a search phrase like location:homeoffice. This would find all activities with the custom field location matching the term homeoffice.

The search terms will be found within the full value, so searching for office would find:

  • I love working in my office
  • Office
  • This office is beautiful
  • Our offices are very noisy

You can mix the search term and use multiple meta-field queries:

  • location:homeoffice activityname foo - find all activities matching the search term activityname foo with the custom field location matching the term homeoffice
  • location:homeoffice contract:foo activityname - find all activities matching the search term activityname with the custom field combination: location matching the term homeoffice and contract matching the term foo
  • location:homeoffice contract:foo - find all activities with the custom field combination: location matching the term homeoffice and contract matching the term foo