When you have installed ITWorkTimer according to the installation requirements (with all required software), make sure to create at least one user in Bugzilla and at least one bug assigned to that user.
Go to http://your_web_server/itworktimer/ (use real URL instead of this one)
Log in using your admin login and password.
1. $
Here you can specify per-hour rate for your employees in USD ($).
To specify the per-hour rate for your employee,
choose him/her in the User list, then specify the date since
when this per-hour rate will be applied, then under '$' column
specify how much dollars per hour for that employee.
Finally, click "Add Record" button.
Now, since the date you specified, each working hour will add the amount of dollars you specified to the total calculated salary.
You need to specify the date because the per-hour salary can change from time to time.
2. Report
Here you can view following reports:
2.1 Overview
You can see the list of all users, their total worktime,
their worktime in each day of the month.
You can also see their total salary ($) for their worktime
(this is useful if you calculate the salaries based on the
total number of working hours. If you have fixed salaries,
independently how much working hours were actually spent by
your employees, you can simply ignore it).
You can use filter to select specific time period, specific user, and even specific Bugzilla products/components/bugs to view the report with the specified details.
2.2 Screenshots
This where you can see the screenshots captured by ITWorkTimer program.
You can easily see what your employee was doing during each time period.
You can click on small screenshot image to enlarge it and see details.
You can review each screenshot to determine if it is appropriate and actually
working.
Note that ITWorkTimer not only makes screenshots to control your employees activities, but also controls their keyboard and mouse activity. Below each screenshot image you see something like "876.0k / 1550.0m". This means that the employee made 876 keypresses and 1550 mouse movements during these 10 minutes period.
Each 10-minutes period is split to ten one-minute small subperiods. Each subperiod is marked with green or red bar. Green bar means that employee used keyboard or mouse during that minute. Red bar means that neither keyboard nor mouse has been used during that minute - and that should give you a warning that although your employee had their workspace captured in the screenshots, he/she did not actually work. Gray bar means that ITWorkTimer was paused/not launched during that minute. This absolutely okay, and "gray" subperiods are not added up to the working time of employee and do not affect the resulting salary.
Usually, it is acceptable if there are no more than 10 red bars in a row - simply because of the human nature, it is sometimes required to take a look at the documentation, think and etc. However more than 10 minutes not touching mouse/keyboard probably just mean that employee was not working. You should be the judge here in such cases.
In future versions, it is planned to add a feature "Remove screenshot". If someone occasionally or intentionally didn't pause ITWorkTimer and didn't work in 10 minute period, you will be able to remove that period and that period will be excluded from the calculation of total worktime/salary. (Stay tuned for new features and updates)
2.3 Details
You can use this report to receive detalized report which you cannot see or is inconvenient
to see in the Overview / Screenshots reports.
Specify detalisation levels, users, start/end dates, and all appropriate information and click "Refresh" button to get your report.
2.4 Titles
This report is used to view the list of programs / window titles which were opened
during employees' worktime.
Sometimes employees can surf the internet or play their favorite games and sometimes
switching the windows back to their workspace to make an impression that they were
constantly working.
This trick will not work for them because of two reasons:
So, if you see that someone spent too much time in Quake III window, you can be sure that although there are good screenshots, that employee actually played Quake III instead of properly working.