Display the current time spent on the transition screen

[Petr AST]

Dear community!

Is it possible to display the current time spent on the transition screen?

[Dave Mathijs · Accepted solution]

HI @Petr AST , yes by adding the field Time tracking to your transition/workflow screen.

[Petr AST]

Hi @Dave Mathijs 

No it doesn't work(

[Dave Mathijs]

Sorry, my bad, I misunderstood your question.

The current time spent (sum a of individual worklogs) is visible in the issue detail view. Why would you want to add it to a transition screen? To my knowledge, that's not possible.

If you change the issue layout to have the Time tracking field above the --- HIDE WHEN EMTY --- divider, you can even pin the field so it's visible on top.

[Petr AST]

I understand your position, thanks, this is an option for visualization

I'm asking this why:

The user must be sure to fill in the time of the task.

He can specify it during the transition, this is ok.

But he can also specify the field time tracking in the task itself. In this case, when transitioning, validator will give an error, since the transition time tracking is empty. But in the task itself, it is not empty. And the user needs to specify 0 hours during the transition.

Accordingly, this is strange, because in theory validator is simple, I want to check the value - time tracking, and if it is not empty, then it will give an error.

On the one hand, I understand the logic so that the assignee can enter the time at different stages. This is convenient when the task is transferred from assignee to assignee.

But when only one assignee is working on a task, it is confusing, if you specify the time in the task itself, and then ignore the time tracking field when closing, it will give an error.

[Jesse Hamburger]

Same issue here. Wondering if it's possible to get the fancy version of the Time Tracking bar appearing on Transition screens and also how to validate against the existing work logged, not just what's entered into the field that appears on the transition screen.

[Maciej Dudziak _Forgappify_]

Hi @Jesse Hamburger

I'm not sure about visualization, but I did handle a similar case using validation. However, this requires a third-party validator. This is because the out-of-the-box validators only check values entered during the transition, whereas Jira Expression-based validators can access both the current and new values.

I have created a post about it: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Re-Ensure-Time-has-been-logged-on-Transition-to-Closed/qaq-p/2838858/comment-id/1059171#M1059171

I hope it will help

Cheers