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User Preferences

Your Jira administrator can configure Time Reports with permissions and settings to help your team work more efficiently. As a team member, you also have a number of User Preferences to set your timesheet working environment in Jira. User Preferences are accessed from the Configure menu ⚙️ on the Time Reports pages.

  • Reporting Day: Specify on which day your week starts for reporting purposes.

  • Weekend Type: Select which days to be specified as the weekend.

  • Working Time In Status: Set your working times and break times to calculate hours in Time in Status and Resolution Time reports (otherwise, all elapsed time is used).

  • Duration Type: Specify the format to display duration; for example 1d 2h 30m for Pretty Duration, 1.2d for Days, or 10.5h by default.

  • Maximum Fraction Digits: Specify the number of fraction digits used to display hours.

  • Time Tracking Columns: Select which columns are displayed in the Time Tracking Report and exported to files. Columns are displayed in the order that you select. If nothing is selected, all columns are displayed in the default order.

  • Time Balance Columns: Select which columns are displayed in the Time Balance Report and exported to files. Columns are displayed in the order that you select. If nothing is selected, all columns are displayed in the default order.

  • Time In Status Categories: Select which statuses to include in the Time In Status report. Making a selection allows you to exclude Resolved statuses. If noting is selected, all statuses are included.

  • Columns For Export: Select the base columns for export in exportData files. If nothing is selected, all are processed. The order is predefined.

  • Duration Type For Export: Select the duration format for exportData files to display time duration.

  • Date Fields: Select the date fields to use for queries, combined with OR in JQL (Created or Updated if nothing is selected for Time Tracking and Time Balance reports).

  • Started Time In Status: Select whether to use worklog started time only for the Pivot by Status report. Do not split timespent between statuses. Not applicable for Time in Status report. Default is No.

  • In Progress Issues jql: Specify JQL to always show issues in Timesheet in basic self user view and in Time Entry, e.g. 'assignee = currentUser() and status = "In Progress"'.

  • Show Additional Info: Select whether to display numbers and averages next to the main value, e.g. to see the number of times an issue was reopened in Time In Status report. Default is No.

  • Show Category Row: Select whether to display an additional row with category totals. Default is No.

  • Show Total In Front: Select whether to display an additional Total column in front of a table, if applicable. Default is No.

  • New Time Entry: Select whether to display the New Time Entry View, containing issues at the top and worklogs (sorted by Started) at the bottom. Default is No.

  • Rows per Page: Specify the number of rows per report page. If not set, a default of 50 rows appear on report pages.

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