We know that you need a product that is easy to use! For that reason, we made sure that our OfficeTime Time Tracking solution does a good job of exporting reports. You can export a summary report of all of your time broken down by project and category or you can export details of every session and expense that happened within a certain time period.
The trick is to that OfficeTime exports the screen you’re on. So if you want to export just a particular project, simply navigate to that project or report before tapping the export button. It’s a powerful feature but some people forget you can change screens first.
You can also choose to export to Excel, Apple Numbers, or a plain tab delimited text file. You’ll get asked the first time and can change it later in the settings. (The settings are available from the * button on OfficeTime’s home screen.)
There’s a bug to watch out for in the current version (1.3). If you export the main summary report, we forgot to add the extension onto the end. The iPad or iPhone automatically adds one, but it’s not necessarily correct. So your report might look like “All Projects – All Categories – All Time.txt”. Numbers won’t want to open this, and Excel will only open it if you import it rather than opening it. (Save your attachment somewhere you know, like My Documents. Then, open Excel and choose File->Import (Mac) or Data->From Text->Get External Data (PC).) The other option is to save your attachment on your desktop computer and change the filename to end in .csv instead of .txt.
How do you know if you’re exporting the main summary report? Well, on the iPad it will ask you if you are. On the iPhone, if you’re on the main report screen that’s the summary report. To export more details, tap anything like All Projects or the name of your project, and you’ll see the breakdown come up and you can export that successfully.
We’d love it if there were no bugs. and we try hard, but bugs will be bugs. Better to honest than try to hide them. We’ve got a fix coming in the next free update to OfficeTime. Follow us on Twitter (@OfficeTimeApp) or Facebook to be notified when it’s available.
You might also be happy to know that the next update adds the ability to set the day your week starts so you can export weekly reports accurately no matter your schedule.
How do you use OfficeTime’s export? What do you wish it could do? We want to know!