Description
A simple plugin that tracks the hours you work on a project, and submits them to slimtimer.
The plugin has a simple little UI that shows your login status, the current project being tracked, and the current amount of time spent on the project. You can close this UI if you want and the plugin will keep running in the background.

Be warned this is a very early beta, so expect bugs

Download v0.9

Github source

Usage
To use the plugin:

Sign up for a free slimtimer account

Drop the plugin files into your flashdevelop plugins folder

Edit the plugin settings as needed, including your slimtimer username and password

Once you're up and running you can go to the slimtimer site to edit tasks, and entries, and run reports etc.

Options

FileComments - You can choose to include the names of the files you work on for a given time entry

IdleTimeout - After this time the timer will stop tracking you (if you go to lunch etc)

MinimumTime - The minimum time to submit (So you don't submit a few seconds by switching to the wrong projects etc)

IgnoredProjects - A list of projects to ignore time tracking for

TrackedProject - A list of projects to track in slimtimer (if AskIgnoreProjects is being used)

AskIgnoreProjects - If set to true the application will ask you if you want to add a previously unopened project to the track or ignore list.

CleanupDuplicates - On launch the plugin will check for tasks with duplicate names. If it finds any it will consolidate their time entries, and delete the duplicates.

This helps with duplicate entries caused by flakey slimtimer api connections.

If you have a lot of duplicates before running this for the first time, it may take a short while.

CleanupOverlaps - On launch the plugin will check all tasks for overlapping entries, and if it finds any it will delete the shorter ones.

This fixes broken entries caused by a bug in the last version.

This is turned off by default as it takes a long time to run, isn't needed if you've never used the plugin before, and uses a lot of data calls, however it runs in a background thread so you can still work whist it's going. Just be careful not to leave it on after it's cleaned your data

Todos
Add start/stop controls to UI
Ability to map projects to different tasks
Show recent entries in UI

Changelog
v0.2 - 28/7/09:

Fixed a bug where only seconds were being submitted

v0.3 - 8/8/09:

Removed need to restart on settings change

Added error handling for connection loss

v0.4 - 22/8/09:

Fixed seconds bug (again )

Added track/ignore project functionality

v0.5 - 22/9/09:

Added auto cleanup options

v0.6 - 25/9/09:

Fixed localisation errors

v0.7 - 22/9/10:

Fixed errors with api server move (no longer needs 2 dlls)

v0.8 - 8/10/11:

Updated for FD4

v0.9 - 10/5/12:

Fixed adding overlapping time entries

Moved all server calls to threads to stop it locking up your FD

Fixed duplicate projects being created when you have more than 50 active projects

Added cleanup overlaps to fix bugs in previous versions

Added to Wiki: http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/in ... ty_Plugins

I'll definitely give it a try

Cheers dudes. New version posted

New version v0.4

I'm trying to add some more functionality that requires a multidimensional array of strings in the settings menu.

I want to add the ability to map multiple flashdevelop projects to the same slimtimer task, eg:


Alternatively it could look something like this:



Can anybody point me to a plugin that already does this, or give me a few pointers as I'm not sure how to accomplish this.

I get error for each project

Does this happen every time you launch flashdevelop?

Do you have any existing tasks in slimtimer. If not can you create a dummy task on the slimtimer site first. Perhaps this could be something i need to look into.

hm, it works now

Glad to be of help

New version v0.5

Also still looking for help with the multidimension arrays problem.

Multidimensional arrays: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 71%29.aspx

But how do i save them in the plugin settings?

My previous post is not valid. I still get that error.

I use last FD build from SVN.
Windows7

What I do:
1. I downloaded latest version of plugin
2. Deleted data folder
3. Entered login/password data in settings

after that (in settings window) I got popup "Property value is not valid" (Details: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.)

In SlimTimer window: Status: Error loading tasks.

Is there any other info you can give me (maybe a screen grab of the popup?)

Does this happen every time you launch?

Has anyone else tried the plugin with windows 7? I only have access to vista and xp.