Answers to the most common questions about creating projects, controlling project access, payments, expenses, and more.
We received the following support question from an Intervals customer: I need some assistance on changing a number of projects. Can we somehow update all projects to be non-billable? When creating new projects there is a billable / unbillable setting that controls the default add time behavior for the project. More information on setting projects […]
The hourly rates for each work type are initialized from the default hourly rates when the project is created. From then on, the hourly rate is applied to any time entries tracked on the project or its tasks. If an hourly rate is updated mid project, all of the time entries for that work type […]
There is not a way to add an expense directly to a task, but there is one option that usually accomplishes the goal. When adding an expense there is a note field. The note field can be used to reference the task. If you need to track the person that the expense is associated with […]
We recently received the following email from a customer. How to handle departments? We have several departments in our company, and we are trying to find a way to mark each task with a department code. Is that somehow possible? There are a few different options on this front. When Intervals is used primarily as […]
If you are unable to find a project, most likely your search is set to only view active projects. To search for ALL projects, active & inactive: Navigate to the “Projects” Tab. Click on the gear icon on the far right and ensure the option “Show active projects only” is unchecked. Note: Inactive projects will […]
A project can be deleted by finding the project in the projects section then clicking on delete in the left-hand column. This will take you to a confirmation dialogue where the deletion must be confirmed. For a project that has a healthy amount of data accumulated we recommend setting the project to inactive. When a […]
In the reporting section there is a Gantt and when viewing an individual project in the project section there is a Gantt chart link to view a Gantt chart for that particular project. The Gantt chart helps you visualize your tasks, milestones and projects and includes the ability to drag around elements to reschedule your […]
Administrator level users can easily change a project from Inactive to Active. 1. Find the Inactive project navigate to the “Projects” Tab. Click on the gear icon on the far right and ensure the option “Show active projects only” is unchecked. If needed, you can add filter options in the left sidebar, to narrow down […]
Kanban functionality currently exists at https://kanban.myintervals.com/. You simply enter your API token from your Intervals account. Once logged you will be able to see all your data from Intervals. The Kanban view is not a separate platform, it is simply just a different view into your data that we have for you to use. Any […]
In Intervals a person’s project access can be modified in bulk by looking up the person in the people section and editing the Project Access section. When in edit mode you can toggle between showing only active projects or all projects. You can then update the projects you want them to have access to by […]
The Daily Project Summary email is the most efficient way to get up to speed on a project. It contains the most recent information in an easy to read format. To receive a daily project status summary, simply follow a project and Intervals will dispatch a digest of the previous day’s activities to your inbox […]
Intervals allows you to set a project to billable or unbillable when editing or creating a new project. The billable yes/no preference is on the project profile page. This option controls the default setting for the Add Time dialogue for that specific project. When a project is set to billable, the Billable checkbox on the […]
If you happen to have project numbers/codes that are not numerical or that are not sequential, there is not a way to add an additional field to projects at this time but a workaround is to append or prepend the number/code to the project name. We have seen Intervals customers that have pretty customized job […]
You can and Intervals handles this scenario really well. When we first built Intervals we were doing a healthy amount of web development on the Pelago side of our business. We typically did custom development projects that were followed up with maintenance contracts. We would offer pricing discounts on our hourly rate based on how […]
Intervals is designed in a fashion that does not include traditional task dependencies like the waterfall method and MS Project utilizes (Finish to Finish, Start to Start, lag, lead, etc.) and is built more around Agile project management philosophies where tasks are more free form in nature and milestones are utilized heavily. The closest functionality […]
There is a one to one relationship with clients and projects and a project cannot belong to more than one client at this time. This is done primarily from the project level permissions Intervals features where non administrators (managers, resources and executives) only see projects where they are members of the project team and for […]
Intervals does not natively do estimates that a client signs off on at this time. We are contemplating adding estimates but the feature is not on the development plan at this time. One of the challenges we have learned is that people do bids in very different ways. When we used to do primarily web […]
The most common use for work types is for the type of activity being performed as opposed to the person, but Intervals is pretty flexible with how it handles work types and you can create rates per person. We have seen a lot of different ways to do it. For example: Junior Copywriting Senior Copywriting […]
It really depends on how big the job is. Think of a project as a “container” for multiple tasks. If in order to execute the “job” you need to have multiple tasks to complete it, create a project that houses all the tasks that make up that job. If the job has a short lifespan […]
Work types and modules are an integral part of the project hierarchy in Intervals. Modules are typically used for a phase of a project or for a feature being developed. They are “categories” where time and tasks are attached for reporting and for management. For example, say designing a logo can be placed in a […]