Hi, everyone! I’m trying to build a link between Fibery and Toggl Track. This task splits into two stages: Start a new Toggl time entry from a Fibery entity (tasks, mainly). That’s covered by a “Toggl Button” Chrome extension, which builds itself inside Fibery’s entity view UI. I click that button – and a new time entry starts tracking, with the name auto-copied from the Fibery entity I’d clicked the button on. Import the parameters of the Toggl time entry back into Fibery – that’s what I have problems with. I suppose it may be done through API and/or an Action Button, but I am not skilled enough at those, so I was wondering if someone of better skill would be interested in helping? Tried workaround I’ve found a workaround using Zapier: I’ve created a “Time Log” Type that was a child to a “Task” type. It had a stop and start date-times and a duration calculated out of those by a formula. It also had an assignee and, of course, a relation to a Task. Also, the Task got a new formula field, summarizing the durations of all of its related Time Logs. I could create several Time Logs for different occasions on which that Task was in the works, and they also could refer to different people’s work. The Task then showed the sum of hours used for it. Then I made a Zap triggered by a new entry in Toggl, that was (a) looking for a Task with the same name as the Toggl entry, and then (b) created a Time Log related to that Task, inserting the start and stop date-times and assignee into the Time Log. All I needed to make sure of – is that the Toggl entry name is the same as the Task name. That was an adequate tradeoff. I’ve tested it while editing, and it worked well. But at the moment of my triumph, Zapier said that Zaps of 3 steps and more (trigger, find the task, create the log) require a subscription. That was $20 per month, so I’ve decided not to rush it. :slight_smile: If Fibery might have its own mechanism to get that info from the Toggl, maybe I won’t need Zapier? Example: Clickup.com Our company currently uses Clickup, which achieves essentially the same result. Their process seems to go like this: When an entry is created by the Toggl Button, the name of the entry contains the name of the task it was clicked on and a postfix with the task’s public ID, like so: Test Task Name - #6d45lm. Later they run a regular check on the connected Toggl accounts using that ID, and import entries as separate logs for a task with the corresponding ID. I’m confident it’s all about the ID because I was able to log some entries not created through the Button by manually adding the ID into the name. So it must be the ID. Can we do it? So, what do you think? Can we achieve something like this with API and/or Action Buttons? I wouldn’t mind clicking a button for that. Especially if it would be, say, a “Done” button, which will close all the subtasks and also fetch the time logs. That would be even elegant, I’d say. :slight_smile:

Hi, Sergey! Thanks for the response. Yeah, hiding “utility” fields would be a rather nice thing! But then again, creating a lot of fields can be a tiresome chore and a seemingly inelegant solution in certain cases. Meanwhile, among the current fields, where would you store a JS object with text/number/date values? Ideally – with the ability to edit it manually in the same field through UI. For example, can I have a table in Rich Text Field and then access it from the code as a JS object of keys and values, kinda?

But then again, creating a lot of fields can be a tiresome chore and a seemingly inelegant solution in certain cases. Well, I thought you need to do this only once. If somehow you button is reused between many types, and so you need to create fields again and again, you can create fields from script, while checking that they do not exist before. where would you store a JS object with text/number/date values? In our integrations we create field per value. But actually we have json field in fibery, it is just hidden on ui. Press and hold “alt” when pressing “New Field or Relation” button, and you will see “JSON” as one of options. You’ll be able to edit that json on UI as well.

Ooh, cheat codes, nice! :star_struck: Thanks again, Sergey! This is very helpful, I’ll give it a try once I get a chance. :slight_smile: What I meant is I imagine it could be a lot of fields, even if created manually and only once. Probably the main issue is that I didn’t think the info structure through yet, so I’m not entirely sure how it might look. The only thought I came to at the moment is that I wouldn’t like to populate everything affected by the integration with specific fields for it, especially since it works with the entities of standard types like “Tasks”, “Users”, etc. So here’s my idea: since I work on a timer integration and have an App called “Timers”, I thought I’d create an “Integration” Type in that App, create one “Integration” entity, name it “Toggl”, and populate it with all the possible fields I might need. In-App Types like “Time Logs” can have their own fields to communicate with Toggl, I guess, but all the general info and info from other Apps (clients, projects, etc.) will be stored in the fields of “Toggl” integration type entity. Any comments on the idea are very much welcome!

By the way, looking more precise into this case, I think the best way for you is to use Zapier to solve your task. As I understand you need a sync from Fibery to Toggl. You mentioned to types you want to sync –> Project and Time Entry. We have Zapier integration for Fibery, Toggl is also present in Zapier as I’ve checked. If you don’t like Zapier, we are working on Integromat integration and it will be available soon. In general solution on Buttons will require manual actions (pressing them), while Zapier integration won’t have this drawback. But maybe even in case of Zapier you’ll still need to create some fields in Fibery, to store info about Toggl items. I.e. projectId like you’ve mentioned.

Hi @aprotasenya, I also want to connect Fibery with Toggl. Just found this old topic via search. I’m really curious what your current 2023 solution is and if it’s making you happy or not :smiley: I’m using N8N for automations (open source Zapier alternative and self hosted so no license costs). It’s a bit more complex to build an automation because of the interface. So if possible, can you let me know what your current solution is and if it’s worth the time? Thanks!

Have you seen this [image] Idea: Crowd-outsourcing API development for no-tech Fibery users API & Programming Hi @mynym, Giving a bit of a early preview. We(Reify Academy) are actually building an integration toolset for Fibery. For starters we are looking at integrating existing popular time tracking tools such as Toggl and Timing and then we will work on case by case basis. For Outlook/Calendar integration would you consider sufficient read-only integration? Meaning you can only see events in Fibery without ability to edit them. If you have specific integration you would like to see earlier you ca…

@Chr1sG thanks not yet! But we will not only build it for ourselves. We also want to include it in The Ultimate Workspace that we are building for our clients :slight_smile: so when it’s not open source then self development is the best solution I think.

Toggl integration will be free of charge in the beginning I can tell you as much right now. It’s an interesting idea to make it open source. Let me discuss it with the team.

@YvetteLans I set up my Toggl integration using Make.com (Integromat). All of the projects, tasks, and clients are created and edited in Fibery and then pushed to Toggle using Fibery automations to trigger Make webhooks and automations. I have Make check Toggle every hour to get new time entries and record/update them in Fibery. I usually trigger the Fibery webhook automations with a button, but you could schedule it instead. On first push (creation) the Toggl ID is recorded on the respective Fibery entity so it can be used for updating existing Toggl entities later. I use Fibery automations to change a checkbox if an entity changes and needs to be updated in Toggle. You can use that to filter which entities need to be updated.

Is it possible to share make.com automations? Would be keen to see how yours work.

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