Time Clock Button
We are looking to add some additional functionality to our existing app. Employees are manually entering in the time they have spent on a project using a Time Card table, but would like to automate th...
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Hillary,
We've done this with time entry - but it could be easily adapted to another use case. You will need javascript to get a button that makes sense to the users. A couple of things you may need to consider
With the timer running in HH:MM format:
Available for data entry (switches to decimal format when the user focuses the cursor in the hours field)
The UI is usually the hardest part.
Hope this helps..
Neil
We've done this with time entry - but it could be easily adapted to another use case. You will need javascript to get a button that makes sense to the users. A couple of things you may need to consider
- The timer will generally keep time in HH:MM, but it's easier to edit the time if it's in decimal format.
- If the person can have multiple timers - you will probably want to shut one off if another is turned on.
- You may want to store the time in the browsers local memory - so it isn't lost if the user is disconnected from the internet.
- You want an indicator to show the timer is running (a minute is a long time). In the examples below we use a simple gif...
With the timer running in HH:MM format:
Available for data entry (switches to decimal format when the user focuses the cursor in the hours field)
The UI is usually the hardest part.
Hope this helps..
Neil