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Many companies use the time tracking fields actively to estimate original work and track remaining hours. If you can see “Original estimates”, “Remaining estimates” fields in your JIRA stories/bugs/sub-tasks, then it indicates that the settings are already setup properly. If these JIRA settings have not been configured, then please use following guidelines.
Enable time tracking feature from the administration panel.
Add time tracking fields to the JIRA project screens and templates.
Ensure time tracking fields are visible to the users on UI.
Configure time tracking for Jira Cloud
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To track their time, you must grant users the Work On Issues permission in their project. To verify your project permissions for time tracking:
Select Settings > Issues.
Click Permission schemes.
Next to the permission scheme you want to configure, click Permissions.
In the Time tracking permissions section, go to the Work On Issues permission and click Edit.
Select the users, groups or project roles that need to log work on issues.
Click Grant.
Enable or disable time tracking in projects
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Enable time tracking (Jira legacy interface)
Select the Jira icon > Jira administration > Issues.
Under ISSUE FEATURES, select Time Tracking.
Turn the Enable time tracking option on or off.
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Enable time tracking (Jira new interface)
Select the Jira icon > Settings > Issues.
Under ISSUE FEATURES, select Time Tracking.
Turn the Enable time tracking option on or off.
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Configure time tracking in project screens and scheme
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If you do not see the time tracking field in the selection list, please check following options.
Click on “Where is my field?” > Start typing “Time Tracking” > Add once the selection appeared.
If the “time tracking” selection option is not listed, then please contact your JIRA administrator to enable, per guidelines above on how to add field to a project scheme screen. Following is an example error message that you can send to your Admin along with instructions.
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Configuring time tracking for Jira Server
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Enabling time tracking for Jira Server/Data Center
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> Click on Issues.
Select Issue Features > Time Tracking to open the Time Tracking page.
Click the 'Activate' button to turn time tracking ON.
Screenshot 1: Time tracking is ON
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