check "Configure time tracking" as non-admin

[Jochen Kruska]

Hei,

if I'm not an admin, neither Jira nor board, how can I see or read the settings of the time tracking?

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Jochen,

Welcome to Atlassian Community.

Basically, the time tracking feature lets your team record the time they spend working on issues.

To enable/disable or configure the time tracking on your JIRA instance, you need to be a global Site administrator, however, if you are just needing to use it to track your progress on your own issues, you only need the Work on Issues Permission enabled for your user in the project - This permission can be granted by the Project Administrator.

You can check the documentation below to know more about the Time tracking feature and how it works:

Configuring Time Tracking

Let me know if this information helps.

[Jochen Kruska]

Hi Goncalves,

thank you very much for your reply.

But I still struggle a bit.

As "simple user" I maintain the effort of a task. Sometimes with the unit hour, day, week or month. I can use all of them and I use all of them. But I'm a bit confused if the report convert the values to a minute. OK, this is a kind of smallest unit, but it is of interest - for the simple user - to know the value of the single units. Will say what is the exchange rate from month to week, from week to day and from day to hour.

Do I always have to go to the board admin to get an answer for this question?

Or, if I'm a simple user, is there a read-only view of this settings, which I've not found?

Thank you very much in advance for your reply

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Jochem,

Sorry, but I'm not sure if I have properly understood your question.

Can you please provide us any screenshots of the data you are viewing and what is the data you expect to see?

I will be waiting for your answer to better understand your requirement.

[Jochen Kruska]

Hi Goncalves,

quite simple ;-)

Can you explain me in this picture if the day is calculated with 6 or 7 or 7.5 or 8 or 9 hours work?

Do you count 5 or 6 working days per week?

So for this time estimate the effort might be something between 5445(=2*5*6*60+4*6*60+6*60+45) and 9045(=2*6*9*60+4*9*60+6*60+45) minutes. And this is a remarkable difference for the duration of a task ;-)