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Adding and Deleting Time Tracking Categories

Table 15. Availability - Legacy plans


Availability: Legacy Business, Legacy Enterprise.; Unavailability: Legacy Free, Legacy Professional.;

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Availability: Business, Enterprise, Pinnacle. ; Unavailability: Free, Team;

Overview

Admins can manage time tracking categories to help organize the time added to tasks through the time tracker and Timesheets. On Enterprise accounts, you can restrict admins from managing these categories with controlled admin permissions. Create categories like “Working on deliverables,” “Review,” and “Meeting” to suit your team's needs.

Add a Time Tracking Category

  1. Click your profile image 1 in the sidebar.

  2. Select Settings. 2

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  3. Select Time tracking 3 from the menu on the left.

  4. Under Time tracking categories 4, click Add category 5.

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    Note

    If you don’t see the Add category link, check the box next to Enable timelog categories.

  5. Enter a name 6 for your category and press enter on your keyboard.

  6. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 for each category you want to add.

  7. Once you've added all necessary categories click Save changes. 7

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Once you complete these steps, users in the account can use the added categories when adding new time entries.

Delete a Time Tracking Category

  1. Click your profile image in the sidebar. 1

  2. Select Settings. 2

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  3. Select Time tracking 3 from the menu on the left.

  4. Click the X icon 4 next to the category that you want to delete.

  5. Click Save changes. 5

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Once you complete all the steps, the category is deleted and can't be restored. The deleted category won’t be cleared from the existing time entries, but users will no longer be able to apply it to new time entries.

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