Time Cockpit Blog

Month by month we portray customers who successfully use time cockpit for managing their services business. For our initial newsletter in 2013 we decided to write about how we use time cockpit for our own consulting business.  Read more ...

If you introduce time tracking in your company you usually want to accomplish certain goals. You might want get more insight into how you spend your time to increase productivity, or maybe you want to monitor the progress of your projects. If you work in a service company, you know that time tracking is important because it is a fundamental part of your billing and calculation processes. Working without time tracking would be like flying blind without instruments. Integrating your time tracking tool with a dedicated invoicing service reduces the number of mistakes and frees you from unnecessary administrative work. In this article you will learn what time cockpit offers for invoicing out of the box and how you can easily integrate it with the online billing system billomat.  Read more ...

It is easy to create small scripts to automate tasks or extend time cockpit's functionality. When the requirements and scripts grow more complex step-debugging and a REPL are desirable features we do not (yet) provide within time cockpit. This post shows how these features can be set up using Visual Studio or other development environments.  Read more ...

In our next version we will add a new column types for bars to lists. We will support three different types of bars: DataBar, StackedDataBar and BulletGraph.  Read more ...

In this blog post we show you how to customize time cockpit so that project managers are notified via e-mail if a threshold of hours spent on a project is exceeded.  Read more ...

One of the key benefits of time cockpit is the customizability. A thing that is often requested but unfortunately still a bit difficult is hiding menu items depending on the current user.  Read more ...

When running time cockpit in Windows 8 the minimize, maximize, and close button is missing.  Read more ...

In the new version of time cockpit for winter 2012/2013 we will fix the display of overlapping time sheet entries. See screenshots of the new version.  Read more ...

Using just around 100 lines of code, basic customer master data can be imported from SharePoint to time cockpit. This can be achieved by using IronPython, the .net BCL and the SharePoint 2010 REST interface.  Read more ...

This sample shows how to import customers from Microsoft CRM into time cockpit using .NET (C#).  Read more ...