Time Cockpit Blog

If you are using Team Foundation Server for your daily development and planning work time cockpit can provide you with some information from TFS via the signal trackers (e.g. checked in code). Using python scripting and the TFS client SDK you can also query the work items for your projects and store them as time cockpit tasks. This will allow you keep track of your working time based on TFS projects and work items.  Read more ...

In the newest version of time cockpit we introduce a new signal type for locations. For that we use data collected by the Google Latitude location service.  Read more ...

Time cockpit allows you to assign time bookings to tasks and projects. If you are using JIRA for planning and bug tracking, this article shows you how to import issues from JIRA into time cockpit in order to use them for time booking. This can be achieved by using the REST API provided by JIRA and a small python script in time cockpit.  Read more ...

In this version of time cockpit we made the usage of actions more convenient. All actions that can be executed on a time sheet are now available from the ribbon menu in the time sheet calendar.  Read more ...

First of all, a big thank you to our customers! Since we have added the feature to send error reports via email, we have received lots of information from you. Please keep on sending us your problems with time cockpit, so we can learn what we should improve. We really appreciate your feedback. We definitely had one frontrunner in your error reports: SQL Server Compact timed out waiting for a lock.  Read more ...

In version April 2013 we have focused on the formatting profiles in the time sheet calendar. Until now we only showed a color legend in the navigation bar on the left side, but there is much more information we can display so we decided to change the color legend to a bar chart.  Read more ...

In version 1.10 we have modified most lists in time cockpit for better performance. If you have built Microsoft Excel export templates you may have to update them to fit together with the new lists.  Read more ...

We are pleased to announce the new version March 2013 of time cockpit. In this version we have focused primarily on the following three goals: make it easy to import data from other data sources, allow to maintain the data model in multiple languages, make lists more expressive by adding charts to visualize information  Read more ...

Time cockpit can assist you in keeping track of your phone calls. By using two simple and free apps you can set up automatic synchronization from your Android phone, to cloud storage, to your desktop and into time cockpit.  Read more ...

Recently, a customer asked us how to book compensatory time off in the time sheet calendar of time cockpit without affecting a users actual hours of work. Here is what we came up with...  Read more ...