A Kimai plugin, which allows you to plan your work and distribute tasks among your users and teams. It features two new dashboard widgets and a new “Task management” administration view.

Features

Add “tasks” which are used to start and group timesheet records.

Each task has the following fields:

• Title
• End date (optional)
• User (optional: if left empty, the task can be self-assigned from the “pending tasks” widget)
• Team (optional: if given, only users from this team see this task and can assign it)
• Customer (will be copied to the started timesheet)
• Project (will be copied to the started timesheet)
• Activity (will be copied to the started timesheet)
• Description (will be copied to the started timesheet)
• Tags (will be copied to the started timesheet)
• Time estimation (optional: if given, a progressbar for duration vs estimation will be shown in the listing page)

Ships a new report, which lists all users with the number of assigned tasks and the progress (via estimation or duration).

You can configure the permissions in multiple ways:

• First version: allows self-management by the user via the dashboard widgets, by assigning to pending tasks
• Second version: only the “My tasks” widget will be shown, listing page is hidden from “normal users” and teamleads will plan the work schedule (a list of tasks) for the users, who then use the widget to start/pause/stop their assigned tasks.

A task can reach the “overdue” status, which means:

• the task reached its end date without being finished
• the duration of all logged entries is higher than the estimation of the task

Task can also be managed via the API.

API Documentation can be found in the plugins demo - credentials here.

Dashboard widgets

This bundle ships two new dashboard widgets (see screenshots):

• My tasks widget
• Pending tasks widget

With the help of these dashboard widgets every user can manage their work.

Reports

This bundle ships two new report

• My tasks
• Team tasks

The following table contains a comparison between plugin and 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/TaskManagementBundle/

The file structure needs to look like this afterwards:

var/plugins/
├── TaskManagementBundle
│   ├── TaskManagementBundle.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:tasks: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/TaskManagementBundle/
• Execute all installation steps again:
  • Copy files
  • Clear cache
  • Update database with bin/console kimai:bundle:tasks:install