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August 25th, 2008

How to manually create/edit BizTrackIt time records?

To manually create time records:

  1. Go to the date to which you want to add a time record (if it’s not the current date). To do this, click the trackball and select Go to Date.
  2. Move the input focus to the Project field on the main screen and click the trackball, select Change Option and choose the correct project.
  3. Roll the trackball until the highlight is in the time record area of the screen (i.e. either highlight an existing time record or if there are no time records, highlight the No Time Records item).
  4. Click the trackball and select New to add a new time record. Fill out the time record information. When the input focus is at the In or Out field you can press the trackball and set the respective time to the current date/time by selecting the Paste Current Time item. Click the trackball and select Save.
  5. To go back to the records for the current date & project click the Today button at the top of the screen.

To edit a time record:

  1. Select the time record (see above).
  2. Click the trackball and select Edit.
August 25th, 2008

How to run BizTrackIt time reports?

You can run BizTrackIt time reports in the following ways:

Via email - for more information see “How to run BizTrackIt email reports“.

Using Desktop Manager synchronization - for more information see “BizTrackIt reports using Desktop Manager synchronization“.

August 25th, 2008

How to run BizTrackIt email reports?

1) Run BizTrackIt, display its menu by pressing the trackball and select Configure Reports
2) Set the Destination field to Email
3) Check either All Projects or the specific projects whose time records you want to include
4) Filter the time records to be included in the report according to the following criteria:
Date Range = All Dates, From/To, Today, This Week, This Month, Yesterday, Last Week, Last Month
Status = Unreported, Unreported or Reported
Billable/Unbillable =  Billable Only, Unbillable Only, Both. This field is only available if the Allow Unbillable Time field is checked on the Options screen.
5)  Check Include Description and Notes to include this information for each time record
6)  Only check Use Alternate Attachment Method if the email account used to send the report uses BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino.
7)  Specify an Email address to which to send the report. To specify more than one email address press the trackball and select the Add Email Address menu item to add another Email field. To delete an email address field if there is more than one such field, position the cursor in the field you’d like to delete, press the trackball and select the Delete Field menu item.
8) Press the trackball and select Run to execute the report immediately or Save to store the report definition
9) See “How to run BizTrackIt email reports safely