DefinedDesign Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Does Time Tracker count the idle time before it times out, or is that idle time automatically subtracted from the log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValleyGuy Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 1 hour ago, DefinedDesign said: Does Time Tracker count the idle time before it times out, or is that idle time automatically subtracted from the log? ... if the clock is recording, the counter is adding it up. You can double check as the actual log time stamps right to the second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefinedDesign Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 2 hours ago, ValleyGuy said: ... if the clock is recording, the counter is adding it up. You can double check as the actual log time stamps right to the second. I checked the clock and when I get the time out notification it keeps recording the time. I let the notification stay and stepped away from my computer for an hour and came back closed the notification and checked the time log and it recorded time the entire time I was away, that is problematic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
para-CAD Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 What if you have project A and project B both open in chief and you're working in project A? Because you're in chief working, does project B's timer also run even though it's minimized and you're not directly in it and working? It's just in chief in one of the tabs at the top? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarrieS Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 This article covers how the Time Tracker works. If you are seeing something different than specified here please reach out to our Technical Support Team so we can look into it further. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00678/tracking-the-amount-of-time-spent-on-a-project.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefinedDesign Posted October 16 Author Share Posted October 16 22 hours ago, CarrieS said: please reach out to our Technical Support Team Thanks Carrie, after reading the article it does appear my time tracker is not stopping when the "Stop timer if idle for 1 minutes" option is enabled in Preferences and the specified criteria is met (i.e. program is idle for 1 minutes). I will submit a ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefinedDesign Posted October 16 Author Share Posted October 16 On 10/14/2026 at 4:12 PM, para-CAD said: What if you have project A and project B both open in chief and you're working in project A? Because you're in chief working, does project B's timer also run even though it's minimized and you're not directly in it and working? It's just in chief in one of the tabs at the top? I'm traveling at the moment but when I get home I will test this and let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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