Tips and tricks showcasing how Intervals can (and does) go beyond the basics when tracking time, managing tasks, running reports, and more.
A customer submitted the following question. Hi. I’m managing Intervals in the interim I’m looking to add “shippers” to our Project Labels. Can you help me understand where I can make this change? Project Labels can be managed by any administrator user that has been granted access to the Settings & Defaults section. Hare are […]
A longtime customer asked the following question. I would like to delete more than one task at a time. Is there a way to do this? One employee added twenty one pages of tasks which all need to be deleted. How do I accomplish this? The bulk task updater can be used to delete multiple […]
The EU time tracking law, know as the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC, applies to all European Union member states and regulates the amount of time employees can work. It’s designed to protect the health and safety of employees, mainly by limiting the number of hours they can work each week. Intervals time tracking software can […]
We received this question from an Intervals customer that has a few hundred users on their account. We are doing some housekeeping on our projects and I am having some trouble assigning a person to a project. When I go to the project team they don’t show up as an option. Can you advise why? […]
A customer asked our support team this question. I need to edit an invoice and change the name, but I don’t see how to do it. Am I missing it? The title/name of an invoice can be updated by navigating to the invoice in question and clicking on the edit icon at the top of […]
A customer made the following feature request. It would be good if you could run the Gantt and not show the estimated and actual time. We are just starting a project that is fixed cost, not hours-based, and I would like to provide the Gantt for the timeline information. But not show the hours as […]
A customer made the following feature request: When the “Submit for approval” button is pressed accidentally there is no confirmation required nor any way to undo the action. I should be able to retract incomplete or incorrect timesheets so that they are not approved by my manager. When a timesheet is submitted for approval, it […]
We received this feature request from a customer. It would be really handy if there was a function where you could copy a timesheet from a previous week. I am travelling for work and my current week is almost identical to the same week a few months back. I’d prefer to use that week as […]
A long-time customer made the following feature request: My favorite feature as a user is the ability to add multiple time entries at once. I use this every week to only enter my data once. Context: I have inadvertently messed it up enough times that I have come to request a new feature/upgrade for this […]
A customer asked the following question. Once I’ve made someone a resource it doesn’t appear I can demote them to executive? Help? There is not a way to demote a user to an executive. Once a user has been created as a manager, resource or administrator the executive user level is no longer an option. […]
A customer asked this question: I love the new card view. A previous kanban tool we used had recently updated cards. Is there anything comparable with Intervals? The recently updated functionality that exists in the tasks menu can be used in conjunction with card view to view recently updated tasks while using the kanban board. […]
A customer asked the following question. Can I see when a project was closed? Can I see which user made change? You can. When a project changes status and who made the change are logged in the project feed. More information on the project feed is available here and here is an example of how […]
A customer asked the following question which got converted into a feature request and then a feature. Is there any way to change all the alerts for projects at one time? We have so many projects that manually changing them would be time consuming. Project budget alerts are a convenient way to receive a notification […]
An early adopter / beta customer for the Card view feature that shows tasks in a Kanban board asked the following question. I’d like to see all of my tasks as cards, but only show the tasks that are due this week. Can that be done via the card view? This can be accomplished via […]
A customer asked the following question: I was wondering if there was a way to set default rates for individual clients rather than only having the rates in system wide. Or even on the project level? There is not a way to create a pool of separate defaults for different clients. There is only one […]
A long-time customer asked the following question: I am cleaning up my modules and I have set my old ones to inactive. I get that this will prevent them from being used with new projects and I can easily use our new setup going forward, but I would like to audit a few of our […]
We received the following question. My manager and I are new users on Intervals and was wondering if we have access to a manual on how Intervals works. We do not have a formal manual but we have a few different types of documentation that may help. Here are a few places that may help: […]
A customer asked the following question: I added a client but they don’t show up when I select “Add time” or on the task listing. Can you help? Typically when this happens it is because the client does not have at least one active project. Intervals is very project centric and all work happens at […]
A customer asked the following question. Is there an easy way to duplicate freeform invoices? Invoices based on actual work performed cannot be copied, but freeform invoices can be copied. Duplicating a freeform invoice can speed up the invoice creation process. Here are a few different ways to copy an invoice. Invoice Detail Page When […]
A long-time customer asked the following question. We used to be able to hover our mouse over a task and see the Summary and Last Comment. It’s recently gone away. Is there a setting that got turned off? We use this to start task timers easily. The setting that controls the hover view is located […]