Preparation

As the admin

There are some steps that need to be done as the tmetric admin and the OpenProject admin.

tmetric

• get the client ID by selecting the client, whose data you want to sync with OpenProject, from Manage->Clients and copying the last number from the URL. For example, if the URL is https://app.tmetric.com/#/account/12345/clients/67890, the client ID is 67890.
• create a dummy project. You can give it any name you like. No time will be logged to this project, but it's needed to create links to OpenProject.
• get the ID of the dummy project. For example, if the URL is https://app.tmetric.com/#/account/12345/projects/989898 the project ID is 989898.
• create work types. The names of the Work Types must match the names of the time tracking activities in OpenProject.
• assign the work types to the project which data you want to sync to OpenProject.
• create a tag called transferred-to-openproject. This tag will be used to mark time entries that have been transferred to OpenProject.

OpenProject

• enable the 'Time and costs' module for the projects you want to sync with tmetric

As the user

get tokens

OpenProject

• go to your profile (by clicking on your avatar in the top right corner)
• click on My account
• click on Access tokens
• click on + API token
• give the token a name and click on Create
• copy the token

t-metric

• go to your profile (by clicking on your avatar in the top right corner)
• click on Profile Settings
• click on Get new API token
• copy the token

configure

in your home folder create a file called .OpenProjectTmetricIntegration.yaml with the following content (enter your tokens):

openproject:
  url: 'https://community.openproject.org'
  token: <openproject token>
tmetric:
  token: <t-metric token>
  clientId: <id of the client in tmetric>
  dummyProjectId: <id of the dummy project the admin created>

run

check and fix the time entries in tmetric

go run main.go check tmetric

The tool with show you any invalid or inconsistent time entries and ask you for data to fix them. This step will only adjust data on tmetric, no data will be written to OpenProject.

transfer the time entries to OpenProject

go run main.go copy

This will copy the time entries from tmetric to OpenProject. The time entries will be marked with the tag transferred-to-openproject in tmetric. Any entry that already has this tag will be skipped.

validate if the data in tmetric and OpenProject is consistent

go run main.go diff

This will show you a table with the time entries in both systems and if there is any difference in the logged time per day. Check if the data is correct.

1. If some data is in tmetric but not in OpenProject, run the copy command again.
2. If some data is in OpenProject but not in tmetric, delete or edit it in OpenProject. To do so use the cost-report feature.
3. If you want to sync data again from tmetric to OpenProject, remove the transferred-to-openproject tag from the time entries in tmetric. This will create new entries in OpenProject and by that might lead to duplication.

work for a specific time period

By default, the script will work with the current calendar month, but the start and end date can be configured with the --start and --end flags. The date format is YYYY-MM-DD.