Custom fields

Allows configuration of additional (custom) fields for: Timesheets, Customers, Projects, Activities, Invoices, User, Expenses (see plugin).

Features

You can create as many fields as you want for each data type, where each field:

• is either optional or mandatory
• has its own visibility, so the access can be restricted:
  • to certain customer/project/activity combinations (eg. a “location” field will only be shown for customer X and project Y)
  • to users with certain permissions or roles
• can be described with a name and help text
• has a maximum length of 255 character

The custom-field data is then available in:

• Data-tables will display all visible fields
• Exports (HTML and Spreadsheets include all visible fields)
• Timesheet exports (include visible timesheet fields)
• API (collections and entities)
• Invoice templates (custom templates have access to all fields)

You can change the “weight” of custom-fields, so they show up in the order you define.

Be aware:

• Restricted fields won’t be visible on the create forms, as Kimai initially can’t know if the rule will apply: in these cases the fields will only be shown in the edit forms
• Sensitive data can be configured as “invisible”, so it will not show up in the above mentioned places
• Custom fields for users are not exported via the API (this is a limitation in the core application)

Permissions

By default, these are assigned to each user with the role ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN.

Field types

Custom fields can be of the following type: string, integer, number, duration, money, language, currency, country, color, date, datetime, email, textarea, invoice template, checkbox, choice-list

More about those in the documentation.

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Compatibility

Plugins should always be compatible with higher Kimai versions, the following list contains the plugin version and the required minimum Kimai version.

Copy files

Extract the ZIP file and upload the included directory and all files to your Kimai installation to the new directory:

var/plugins/MetaFieldsBundle/

The file structure needs to look like this afterwards:

var/plugins/
├── MetaFieldsBundle
│   ├── MetaFieldsBundle.php
|   └ ... more files and directories follow here ...

Clear cache

After uploading the files, Kimai needs to know about the new plugin. It will be found once the cache was re-built. Call these commands from the Kimai directory:

bin/console kimai:reload --env=prod

rm -r var/cache/prod/*

You might have to set file permissions afterwards:

chown -R :www-data .
chmod -R g+r .
chmod -R g+rw var/

Create database

Run the following command:

bin/console kimai:bundle:metafields:install

This will create the required database tables and update them to the latest version.

Updating the plugin works exactly like the installation:

• Delete the directory var/plugins/MetaFieldsBundle/
• Execute all installation steps again:
  • Copy files
  • Clear cache
  • Update database with bin/console kimai:bundle:metafields:install