You can add work items by using either the visual interface or commands. The time spent on a work item can be logged in minutes, hours, days or weeks (use shortcuts such as 1m, 1h, 1d, 1w, etc.). Therefore, YouTrack has a Time Tracking tab for each issue if time management is enabled for the project. YouTrack associates work items with particular issues, in other words, you may log multiple work items representing work related to the same issue. In the latter case, enter the desired type and click the '+' sign next to the last work item type. For example, you can change a field that you use to count spent time, or add custom work item types. Should you decide to change the time tracking configuration for an existing project, you can always do it from the Time Tracking tab in the project settings. YouTrack offers you to choose the fields to be used for estimation and spent time, and shows the available work item types. By default, the 'Spent time' field is used. There СЃould be a custom field with 'period' type in your project to record spent time. Actual time spent on a task is stored in the Spent TimeВ field. Otherwise YouTrack will offer you to add new fields to your project issues in order to count time spent on issues.Д®stimationВ is a field for estimating the time a task will take. If your project already has Estimation and Spent Time fields of 'period' type, YouTrack will use them by default. РЎustom types are available starting with YouTrack 5.2. You can add, remove or modify work item types on the server level in Settings | Time Tracking, and/or on the project level in Administration | | Time Tracking. YouTrack has three pre-defined work item types: Development, Testing, and Documentation. Note that the term work itemВ is used differently in some books on Agile practices in YouTrack, it does NOT mean issue, task,В or ticket. Each piece of work to be logged with YouTrack is a 'work item.' Each work item has a type and a duration. You may wish to count time spent on the issues separately for developers, QA engineers, technical writers, etc. Set up time management Enable time managementД¬lick the project name in Settings | Project, then navigate to Time TrackingВ tab, and select the Enable time tracking for projectcheck-box. This tutorial walks you through configuring Time Management in YouTrack and using time tracking in your project.

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