Some functionality of Kimai can only be triggered via bash / command line.
Please run bin/console
to see all available commands.
Since version 1.19.7 you can stop all running timesheets with the call of one command:
bin/console kimai:timesheet:stop-all
This will immediately stop all active records. Validations will NOT be executed, which normally takes place if entries are stopped manually!
You can run this command via cron-at regular intervals, e.g. to stop all forgotten timesheet records at midnight (crontab example).
0 0 * * * /var/www/kimai2/bin/console kimai:timesheet:stop-all >> /dev/null
If you lost your (admin) password and don’t have another admin account to reset it and deactivated the “forgot password” function, you can use the following console command:
bin/console kimai:user:password
Kimai comes with a new command, which allows you to create invoices from the command line. When combined with a cronjob, you can automate your invoice creation.
Find all available options with the --help
parameter:
bin/console kimai:invoice:create --help
This command will create one invoice for every customer which had timesheets in this month.
The invoice template that will be used is fetched from the customer meta-field inv_tpl
(can be an ID or a template name):
bin/console kimai:invoice:create --user=susan_super --timezone=Europe/Berlin --by-customer --template-meta=inv_tpl
This command will create one invoice for every project which had timesheets in January 2020.
The invoice template that will be used for every invoice is Freelancer (PDF)
:
bin/console kimai:invoice:create --user=susan_super --timezone=UTC --by-project --template="Freelancer (PDF)" --start=2020-01-02 --end=2020-01-31