How to use measurement

Easy Tracker 2008 integrates measurement items insides.

With these measurement items, you can collect some data in Easy Tracker Lite easily and quickly.

For example, to review a document, you may want to get these measurement items: how many pages have been reviewed, how many bugs have been found, etc. All of these data can be collected in the time entries. With these data, you can get a clear view of your productivity.

One task provides three measurement items to measure. If there are more than 3 items to measure, you need consider to choose the most important 3 items from them.

Note: once a user has used the measure item to track a task, you should prevent altering the measure item name, otherwise the previous created time entries may use the wrong item names, and the reports or statistics may not correct.

Inheritance explanation:

	Time Entries <= Tasks <= Preferences
	Measurement Item Name and Hint of Time Entries inherit from Tasks.
	Measurement Item Name and Hint of Tasks inherit from Preferences.

You can enter measurement information in Time Tracker or Time Log view in General Category of Easy Tracker Lite, and view them in Measurement part of Time Log view.

The following table describes the fields of these three measurement items.

Explanation of fields

Field	Description
Measurement Item A
Item A Name	Measurement item A name. This name is inherited from the measurement item name A in the preferences. You can use this field to title item A. This name will be displayed in the time log, and guide user to input measure item. For example, to review a document, you may want to get these measurement items: how many pages has been reviewed, how many bugs has been found, etc. All of these data can be collected in the time log. With these data, you can get a clear view of your productivity. One task provides three measurement items to measure. If there are more than 3 items to measure, you need consider to choose the most important 3 items from them. You can customize the name and hint of a measurement item in My Tasks view of Easy Tracker Lite or Tasks view of Easy Tracker Pro.
Item A Hint	Measurement item A description. it will be used as a hint in the timesheet entry tools, and help user to understand the measurement item A. You can customize the name and hint of a measurement item in My Task view of Easy Tracker Lite or Task view of Easy Tracker Pro.
Item A Value	The value of item A. Enter the data you want to collect, for example, how many pages has been reviewed, how many bugs has been found, etc. After an activity, you can enter its measurement information in Time Tracker or Time Log view in General Category of Easy Tracker Lite, and view them in Measurement part of Time Log view.
Measurement Item B
Item B Name	The second measurement item. The meaning is the same as Item A Name
Item B Hint	The meaning is the same as Item A Hint
Item B Value	The meaning is the same as Item A Value
Measurement Item C
Item C Name	The third measurement item. The meaning is the same as Item A Name
Item C Hint	The meaning is the same as Item A Hint
Item C Value	The meaning is the same as Item A Value

Hint

The fields marked with * are required fields. When add a new entry, you must fill something in these fields.

What do you want to do?

	To configure measurement items, use tasks view
	To get measurement report, use report
	Learn more about Assignments View
	Learn more about Time Entry