What's new in Keepr 0.18.0
Reports for every role
Every member can now open Reports and export their own tracked time; before, reports were for owners, admins and managers. Owners, admins and workspace managers still see the whole workspace, and project managers see their own time plus the projects they manage.
Billing admins can now report on the workspaces they are assigned to, without amounts, rates or labor cost, so they can check hours before an invoice without seeing what anyone is paid.
Choose what goes into an export
Export now opens a dialog. Pick CSV, Excel or PDF and the file's language, then start from the full report or a timesheet, or build your own: the sections to include (filters and totals, chart, project budgets, grouping by day, a QR code and link back to the report) and the columns, from date and duration to amount and labor cost. Nothing is remembered between exports, so each file is exactly what the dialog showed.
Entries now run from the start of the period to its end in every format, and dates and times follow your language and time zone, as they do in the app. A long export carries on in the background and its download starts when it is ready.
Integrations you can tune
Each integration now has its own pages. Scopes decides what it may do: Task management to sync tasks in, Time tracking to report time out, and nothing beyond that. Task sync maps each event in the tool (issue opened, closed, reopened or renamed) to what Keepr does with its task, and Time sync holds the rules for how tracked time lands back: a Jira worklog, GitLab /spend, Bitrix24 elapsed time or a comment.
Request logs list every delivery in and every push out for the last 30 days, and the audit trail shows what the integration did and what members changed on it. The organization audit log can also be filtered to integrations, sorted by date, and searched by IP address.
GitVerse
GitVerse is the seventh tool you can connect. Its pull requests become Keepr tasks, merging one archives its task, and tracked time is posted as a comment on the pull request. A pull request whose branch or description names a tracker task, such as feat/tskkpr8-145-gitverse-sync, shares that task's Keepr task.
GitVerse's task tracker has no API, so tracker tasks themselves do not come in. Track time on them with the browser extension, which recognises the task page. The GitVerse setup guide walks through the webhook and the access token.
Browser extension
Timers in the popup and the side panel now update the moment they change anywhere else, while either is open. Settings now open inside the popup, show the version you have, and, for an extension installed from the Downloads page rather than a store, tell you when a newer one is out and how to reinstall it. Your token and settings are kept.
The extension can now talk to your own Keepr server: under Extension settings → Server, choose On-premises and enter its API address. The side panel shows how many timers are running, the site list can be searched, and a workspace that requires a project or task on every entry now says so before you start.
Jira timer panel
The panel in a Jira issue now notices a timer started or stopped elsewhere, such as in the web app or the extension, within about five seconds, and pauses while the tab is in the background. If it cannot reach Keepr for a while, it says so and shows the time of the state it is displaying. The Jira app updates by itself; nobody has to accept anything.
Smaller changes
While a timer runs, the browser tab's icon shows it, so you can see it from any other tab. The keepr.ru home page has a new first screen and fresh screenshots, and the public Integrations page now lists GitVerse.