Reviews & Comments of Time Tracker by Tempo chrome extension

This review has been updated, as some shortcomings were addressed. In general this extension is implemented very badly. * It does not reliably sync the state with the trackers in the regular UI (Starting a tracker within Jira won't start one in the extension) * Logging will open the external page, leaving the current one. This can lead to unsaved content getting lost. * The search for issues on a tracker shows different results than the search in the regular UI. Searching for PROJECT-1 will always show issues with numbers higher than 100 first, making it impossible to reach issue 1. You could say that it is at least consistent with the whole experience of Tempo - very bad.

Update changed a lot and makes it harder to log time. After logging time if you need to adjust you have to go to temp and can't do it from the time log pop up anymore. Please change it back or add the ability to set work time. Update: When logging time the time log applies to the wrong time, around 12 hours ahead of the actual time. Update 11/28/22: They have fixed the majority of the issues I brought up. Great job listening to the community.

Last update completely broke the extension. 1. List of trackers is not updated anymore in the bottom pane. I have to relogin to the extension to update it! 2. I can't select proper account (or just check it's selected) when log time. The prev version opened Tempo log form but now it's completely unuseful.

The new version is really difficult to work with. The main reason is that when logging time you can no longer adjust the Start & Finish time. I then have to go to Tempo, reload the page and then adjust each one accordingly. This just takes up more time. It also seems to take time starting a new task timer and I have ended up with extra ones floating about. Had one that got to 95 hrs over the weekend. It is very clunky and cumbersome now to use. Definitely not an upgrade to 2.* for the better.

New version (2.*) doesn't work correctly. I don't want to see and give access for all web sites. But I can't select specific site: 1. If I set specific site via settings, tempo doesn't count time (always 0h 0m 0s). 2. I can't setup specific page. For example: we have corporate jira and confluence with the same host (companyName.atlassian.com/jira and companyName.atlassian.com/confluence) and I want to see widget only for jira.

I'm not a fan of the over simplified update because of these reasons: 1. I like to edit my start and finish time - it gives me more control over logging my work time (especially if you forget to hit start or stop during your task) Take a look at time tracking app Klokki Slim. when you leave your computer it knows and asks you if you want the timer to stop or keep going from the time you left. Very smart. 2. I also don't like how it appears on all sites by default. I use a lot of screen shots in my work and the times appear all over them. I've tried to turn it off by using the specific site option but the timer then doesn't work. Having this app work with Jira is the best thing, but don't fix what isn't broken. And if you do, you should add more customisation rather than less. You should have done extensive user feedback, user testing and then facilitate a communication plan to implement these changes. I think you've done a downgrade not an upgrade this time.

Used to work, now spamming itself in all browser windows including chrome desktop apps and the timer won't even start anymore; just sits there at 0:00 no matter what I click. My time tracking workflow is ruined. Review Update for v2.0.3 & 2.0.4: - Still opens in all windows/tabs by default; is there anyone that actually wants this to happen? - Setting it to only open on specific sites causes the timer to never start counting when clicked (unusable) - The only extension setting it has (light/dark/system) doesn't even save properly or change appearance

It used to work, not anymore though. If you press log time, it redirects you to tempo and tempo page says "tracker not found"

Since the update the extension is logging the wrong times. Looks like it's referencing UTC instead of my local time.

After the update. I can no longer log time. The Up arrows to log time are now no longer visible unless I click on the ticket number and a new tab opens up where the up arrows are shown briefly (a second or two) to log time. I see no way to modify what is shown on the plugin or adjust length, etc. I'd share a snip of what I see...but can't!

The new update wrecked this plugin. Not only is the UI worse, the UX took a nosedive. Logging time now opens a new tab into Tempo for each task. I've also noted that JIRA ticket icons/images are broken, which effectively pushes the "open" arrow of the tracker off, so opening those trackers becomes impossible. How do we keep the old version of this tracker?

Used to work fine. New update made it that it shows the tracker on every page, even if it isn't Jira, and doesn't automatically pick the case number if you start tracking on that page

The latest version might look nicer and has some "features" like showing up in any browser but is not in anyway better. Searching for issues numbers is rubbish, this might be a problem with JIRA's API also being rubbish but search worked much better when you went to submit a time log & it popup up with a new view to complete the issue. I am now forced to log time onto the wrong ticket then go into JIRA and adjust the issue number as it was not possible to find the correct ticket before submitting. Please when you create features maybe think about settings and options so we can revert back to other version if they don't work correctly.

Decent update that fixed some UX issues.

I was unable to make it work in Microsoft Edge (Version 105.0.1343.53 - Official build - 64-bit). In Google Chrome works well and the extension is ok.

The plugin now for around a week keeps asking to reconnect to jira multiple times a day, that's an introduced bug after latest updates

I used to love this extension, but the recent update broke it. I have been asked to reconnect the extension EVERY time I use it now. Multiple times a day.

It's a very handy extension, unfortunately "start tracking" stopped worked recently

Tempo Team, please fix a critical bug. After a major update on 16/11/2021 EVERY SINGLE TIME when you're stopping a tracker on Chrome plug-in - you should reconnect Tempo plug-in to Jira. Simply EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Asks for authentication few times per day! And for some reason it asks permission to delete Jira issues.

It doesn't work too often.

Not useful, It will be great if it works like toggle. Will give 5 stars when it useful. At least just a time tracker function.

I like it very useful to avoid the need to open every time I want to track the story and tempo, instead I can quickly click on the plus icon and the time track starts. It was working fine but in the last weeks I am having issues, the time tracker starts correcly, but when I tried to log the time it is sending me a 404 error... If I check the tempo, the tracker is there and running and I can log the time manually using that tracker... but it is just I cannot log the time using the chrome extension. Here is the URL that cannot be found: https://mycompany.atlassian.net/secure/tempo-app#!/my-work/tracker/7d06c43f-65b3-41d5-9f39-a64f03c1cf40

I used to love this extension, but it has been down for 2 days now? no information on the website too? would like an update please. Feels like the support for the extension was abandoned?

It was working well for about 2 weeks, and then when I ask the other Project Coordinators to try it out...when they try to log their time, it brings up a 404 error! What is going on?! NOTHING works in JIRA. There is always some kind of issue that slows our company down and hinders efficiency.

Slow, high CPU usage when loading side, it uses an HTML iframe. Sometimes it gets stuck when logging the time.

Reloading page when stopping timer is so annoying! It's 2020, ajax exists! Also I'd like to have possibility to disable multitasking, is it possible? In 2017 you have mentioned that you are working on it. Is it really that big feature? Working in parallel on multiple tasks does not make any sense in most cases!

Would be great with an option that allows the user to select "Backlog" instead of "Active Sprints" as the default page to load after logging hours in tempo tracker

Pros: - Very useful integration with Jira Tempo - Allows logging time to any task in Jira - Simplifies the process of logging time Cons: - When I start a tracker, I'd like others to stop counting (no multitasking). - It would be very useful to start timer from the Google Chrome extension icon like Toggl does this. - All worklogs are collecting in the footer of the page, and in case you work on 10-15 tasks during the day it becomes hard to manage all of them. It would be great to just hide stopped logs under the icon.

Gave this another try and it now works on board pages. Way better, will be using it again. :) [Previous review] Stopped working on board pages. It's useless if you have to get into the issue to start logging time, because the option to add trackers exists in the issue page. If this is not a bug, but an intended feature, I'll probably remove it from Chrome.

it stopped showing tempo in jira saying tempo needs to be installed in jira. Showing tracker only on tempo subpage in jira

When I try to log work, it just takes me to a 404 page on JIRA

Tempo extension does not support Jira Server version, but it definitely should support.

Loved it! Works much better than the trackers built into the Tempo webpage.

It used to be better when you start one tracker it stops the others. Now you have to click pause on your previous tracker and play on the one you want to start. You should only be able to charge for one task at a time? Also I have to re-install it from time to time because error keeps coming up "Count not retrieve task info" or similar. aFter I uninstall and then re-install it goes awya.

Doesnt seem to add anything at all. If the trackers were visble in every tab it might be useful - but as it stands, it's just another unhelpful dev plugin

It works very well for us.

This extension doesn't seem to do anything while navigated to a page other than your Atlassian account. In fact it seems for me at least that I have to be on the Tempo page. So, what's the point? This functionality should have simply been incorporated into Tempo itself. I have a Twitter extension that works regardless of what page I'm viewing. There's no reason why this extension can't work the same way.

I really enjoy it, it makes tempo actually usable in my opinion. However, there are just too many bugs. Today I can't even get it to connect to JIRA. I just click the extension, it takes me through all the steps until I'm redirected back to JIRA but there is no tracker. Then I just keep doing that with no luck. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling twice. Sucks when you can't use it.

This is so darn good, hot diggety I sure do love this extension, and it just gets better

Why do we need extension? Why this cant be just a feature in a web app? Edit: now we can't even have trackers in jira show in here https://support.tempo.io/hc/en-us/articles/234979828-Logging-work-with-trackers we got Tempo Timesheets for Cloud Version: 1.1.45-AC

The Web-Apps former Integration was way better... The Current selected Ticket in a Board-View is not selected for a new started Time-Tracker. On stopping the tracking the detail view for a ticket is loaded before the overlay is displayed... wasted seconds of waiting ;) Mutltitasking IMHO is pointless for enterprise job environments. The overall look&feel isnt as snappy as the old ones... please go back to an integrated version.