Redact break time not working in Android

Simon

Android 11, WorkingHours version 2.9.8
I'm starting & stopping a timer with geofence, but the automatic redactiong of break time does not occur.

Either I'm misunderstanding what it should do - I thought it would redact given minutes when stopping the timer if the timer was within the time set - or it is not working.

timo

So it should work like this:

You enable "Subtract break time" in the app settings
you set break start to e.g. 12 PM and break end to 1 PM
you set up geofence and the timer starts when you arrive at work (e.g. 7 AM)
you leave your work at e.g. 4 PM and the timer stops
the total duration would be 9 hours (7 AM to 4 PM), then the app subtracts 1 hour (12 PM to 1 PM)
-> final duration 8 hours, pause 1 hour, start 7 AM, end 4 PM

Can you confirm that you have set it up and used it like this and it does not work correctly? Would the "duration" still show 9 hours in your case?

Simon

timo Yes, it shows 9 hours.
Sorry for the bad translation above, mine is in Swedish.
I have set 12:00 to 12:30 in subtract break time settings, but nothing is subtracted.

timo

I will test this later on my device. After browsing through the code, I didn't see any potential bug...
The break time should certainly be subtracted if it is in the same time frame that the geofence timer has been running

Simon

I also automatically tag that timer with a default tag, if that is of any importance.

timo

I am still unable to reproduce this problem.
Are you sure you haven't overlooked anything and you can reproduce this problem repeatedly?
What kind of tag are you adding in particular? Is it a "special" tag?
Can you perhaps upload screenshots of your break settings and your affected work units?

Simon

I noticed that yesterday it worked, but the prior 9 working days it didn't.

Been thinking about what I tried differently yesterday. I turned it off and on a bunch of times. I had a the Windows application syncing to the same onedrive account, but on that client this setting was turned off - so I turned it on with the same settings there. I never use the clients simultaneously - I've actually haven't started using on windows yet but it might have been started and exited on some of the days.

Is the setting per app or a global configuration? Could it be out of sync due to having many clients?
Anyway I say close this issue since it magically fixed itself, I'm happy. 🙂

And thanks for a great application!

timo

The break setting is "per-app" and not synced. So the break is only deducted on the device where the break setting is enabled.
Please post the screenshots and more details if possible, in case the problem returns.