Assign time tracking categories to folders, projects, and tasks

I would use the time tracking categories, perhaps, except that you have to assign the category to every time entry. It would be better to be able to assign a category to the folder, project, or task, so that every time entry to that task, etc., inherited the time category by default.

Does that make sense?

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Tobias Pedersen

Yes I am missing that exact same feature.
Was hoping category per task would have been implemented with the Blueprint, but alas the blueprint is just a slightly (tiny bit) more advanced way to manage templates, than simply copying (duplicate) the folder/project/task named "Template xxx" every time.

The "Timesheet" tab was great, but now the team often forgets to update the category, since it is no longer presented in the same way during time registrations.

This could be mitigated somehow by allowing adminstrators to add the category later, at least as a tempory solution while we wait for the feature.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Welcome to the Community @Tobias Pedersen! Thank you for letting us know your feedback! This suggestion has been passed on to the Product team, and once it reaches 60 upvotes here on the Community, we'll provide a Product status here 👍

Fleur Komen

Hi there,

We'd love this feature as well. Just FYI: this is a similar request to /hc/en-us/community/posts/360016789053-REQUEST-Separate-Timelog-Categories-per-User-Group-and-or-Project-Folder

@Lisa, asking people to upvote in order to reach 60 votes is the standard response from the Wrike team, but do you guys actually look at the request itself re topic? Many times there are multiple threads covering the same topic or very nearly so. It would be great if your team doesn't just look at the number of the upvotes, but also what the actual request is, because often the upvotes are spread across different threads, which gives a skewed view.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi @Fleur Komen, thanks a lot for referring to this similar thread here! I totally understand your sentiment about the threads where there are similar asks! We do try to keep it clean and we mark some threads as "duplicates", and it's also why we do ask the Community members to use the search before posting a suggestion here.

Anna Torossi

I was about to create a similar past, for how my team is managed I need to be able to assign category to tasks from the beginning, otherwise my team often does not get it right or forgets. Also, it would be very useful for me to be able to assign categories as admin to time entries.

Cansu Yetisgin

Hi @Anna Torossi, thank you for sharing your use case and feedback here. Please be sure to upvote the original post if you haven't yet 🙌🏼

Stephanie Bannister

We are also very interested in this feature. We are implementing a new process for consultant timesheets where we are requiring everyone to track time in Wrike and submit for approval. We intend to pull reports based on this information to understand how much time is being spent on support (already implemented software features) vs value-add (new launches or enhancements). With the way Wrike is set up now, we either have to police the categories or have a tolerance for error as we rely on users to choose it themselves.

Upvoted!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thank you so much for sharing detailed feedback here @Stephanie Bannister, and for supporting this suggestion! Passing it on to the team now 👍

Stephen Quinn

Our team would really benefit from this feature too!

Any progress to report?

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi @Stephen Quinn, thank you for supporting this suggestion! I don't have an update at the moment, but we'll be adding a Product status here once we have 60 upvotes here 👍

Tori MacMillan

@Elizaveta Bogdanova this has more than 60 upvotes, but I don't see an product status, thanks!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi folks, I've checked with the team, and for now, the status here is Not Planned. We will continue to pass on your feedback here and we'll let you know if there are any changes.

Phil Taylor

This is a vital feature for us. Without it the time keeping category is practically useless.

Juho Rekilä

Hi, I'd love also to have this in our organization.

Kelly Tanner

Our organization fully utilizes time tracking and requires time tracking for all work. We report by category but have some inconsistency with using the correct category for the task is a challenge. Having this functionality to assign it on a task and/or project level would be GREAT!! And improve our accuracy logging time and reporting it as well

Ian Kizer

For this reason, we don't use Time Tracking Categories. From a business perspective, it doesn't exactly make sense to have your ICs decide the Time Tracking Category on a timelog basis in a fully integrated workflow. That's just extra work for them that creates more room for error.

As a consequence of not using Time Tracking Categories, we are forced to report on a Capacity & Time Tracking outside of Wrike - which is typically some serious excel work. Since we use Time Tracking Custom Fields on the tasks to report on Utilization (we can set these via API on creation), we're unable to use Work Schedule Capacity as the denominator in our Analytics reports. This is also due to the fact you can't report on User Work Schedule Capacity & Projects/Tasks at the same time in Analyze.

A. When a project comes from a Salesforce opportunity, I should be able to default the Time Tracking Category for all tasks/timelogs under that project to be Billable via API.
B. When a task comes from a Salesforce support case, I should be able to default the Time Tracking Category for all tasks/timelogs under that project to be my Support category via API.

Santiago Úbeda

Same here. Not being able to assign Time Categories directly to Tasks is forcing to export raw information from Projects and Timesheets and update Excel reports. So, we use Custom Fields to predefine Task Categories. This is also due to the reporting capabilities limitations in Wrike, by the way.

I guess the difference is we need to uniquely categorize Tasks or activities, but we don't need to categorize "time".

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback here, folks! Our Product team is definitely aware of this idea and if we have any updates for time tracking categories in the future, we'll let you know.

Matt Riddett

Same. Would love to have this feature.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Hi @Matt Riddett welcome to Wrike! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Don't forget to upvote the original post if you haven't already 🙌🏼

I would also recommend checking out this post, which explains how the product feedback forum works. Let me know if I can help with anything else!

Amelia Soucy

Where does this feature sit on the roadmap for development?

Basudha Sakshyarika

Hi @Amelia Soucy! Thank you for checking in. Currently, this is not planned, but we will let you know if anything changes. 👍🏽