Kimai
Deduction-Time Bundle
Configure activities as deduction times and save negative durations
Kevin Papst
Allows to configure activities as being a “deduction time”. A deduction time means that the timesheet duration will be negative.
Deduction times can be edited, but the negative duration is not used in the UI and not saved!
It is always the calculated duration of end - start, which is then converted to the negative value.
Configure an activity
When editing any activity, you will see a new checkbox Deduction time.
If this is checked, every future timesheet using this activity, will have negative durations.
When to use this plugin
If you are too lazy to create multiple records per day, but instead want to record entire days (attendance) and use those to create invoices/exports, you find yourself with too many hours on the clock.
You could manually subtract breaks from every day OR you use this plugin.
- Allow overlapping records in System > Configuration
- Create a global activity “break time” and activate the
Deduction timecheckbox - Use that new activity to record your employees break times, e.g. via calendar
- Safely export or invoice your times: due to the negative duration the break times will be subtracted from the attendance time
Compatibility
The following table contains a comparison between plugin and required minimum Kimai version.
| Bundle version | Minimum Kimai version |
|---|---|
| 2.0 | 2.0 |
| 1.0 | 1.27.0 |
Installation
Copy files
Extract the ZIP file and upload the included directory and all files to your Kimai installation to the new directory:
var/plugins/DeductionTimeBundle/Or you can clone it directly to the var/plugins/ directory of your Kimai installation:
cd kimai/var/plugins/
git clone https://github.com/Keleo/DeductionTimeBundle.git DeductionTimeBundleThe file structure needs to look like this afterwards:
var/plugins/
├── DeductionTimeBundle
│ ├── DeductionTimeBundle.php
| └ ... more files and directories follow here ...Clear cache
After uploading the files, Kimai needs to know about the new plugin. It will be found once the cache was re-built. Call these commands from the Kimai directory:
How to reload Kimai cache
bin/console kimai:reload --env=prod
It is not advised, but in case the above command fails you could try:
rm -r var/cache/prod/*
You might have to set file permissions afterwards:
Adjust file permission
You have to allow PHP (your webserver process) to write to var/ and it subdirectories.
Here is an example for Debian/Ubuntu, to be executed inside the Kimai directory:
chown -R :www-data .
chmod -R g+r .
chmod -R g+rw var/
You might not need these commands in a shared-hosting environment.
And you probably need to prefix them with sudo and/or the group might be called different from www-data.
Updates
Updating the plugin works exactly like the installation:
- Delete the directory
var/plugins/DeductionTimeBundle/ -
Execute all installation steps again:
- Copy files
- Clear cache
