unanet-summarizer

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A link that you can add to any browser’s bookmarks which adds a summary and some time-keeping helpers to your unanet timesheet page.

For Users

Purpose

We (and our supervisees) sometimes have a lot of time entry categories. It may be difficult to understand a high-level view of these entries at a glance.

The Unanet Summarizer allows you to:

• View your summary of time entries by time (INT, CORE+, BILL+, etc.)
• See how “over/under” you are for a given time period
  • …and carry over the first timesheet’s number to your second timesheet so you can see for the month
• Avoid using more PTO than you need to by seeing if you’re over on + hours in a time period where you use PTO
• Quickly summarize your supervisees’ timesheets to see where their hours land (and watch for signs of overwork/burnout, etc.)

How to Get the Bookmarklet

Drag the link below to your browser’s bookmarks or bookmark toolbar (you can rename it afterward, if you want)

Summarize Unanet

Here’s an animation of how that might work in a Firefox browser:

How to Use the Bookmarklet

When you’re on your timesheet (or viewing your supervisees’ timesheet), click the bookmarklet link to see the time summary.

Common Questions

Q: What’s a Bookmarklet?

A: Most bookmarks point to a web site (e.g. https://excellalabs.com). A bookmarklet actually contains some script that manipulates a web page in some way. In our case, that script downloads the unanet-summarizer code and runs it, which displays the summary box on the web page.

Q: What do you mean by my browser’s bookmarks toolbar?

A: On many browsers, you can display a “bookmarks bar” below the main place where you enter web sites / searches. This lets you click on a bookmark directly, without going through your “bookmarks” or “favorites” folders. It makes things a little more accessible.

Q: Where Can I Find More Help Installing or Using This?

A: Ask Sean Killeen or the #unanet-summarizer channel in Slack.

For Developers / Coders

How it Works - Behind the Scenes

• The bookmarklet loads our script.
• This script scrapes the DOM in the web page to capture time entries and places them into an array
• It then uses several reducers to summarize the time in various ways
• It uses some rudimentary string templates to put together some contents
• It then puts those contents into a new section which it renders on top of the timesheet.

How We’re Deploying This

• We first developed a JavaScript that could be executed in the browser’s console
• We then served that from GitHub pages (thanks, GitHub!)
• We then created a bookmarklet that can load the script and execute it

Explaining the Bookmarklet

The contents of the link are:

javascript:(function(){ var onload=function(){ window.summarizeUnanetTime(); }; if(!window.summarizeUnanetTime){var s=document.createElement('script');s.src='https://excellalabs.github.io/unanet-summarizer/unanet-summarizer.js';s.onload=onload;document.body.appendChild(s)} else { onload(); } })();

This bookmarklet adds injects the JavaScript file if it doesn’t exist, and then calls the summarizeUnanetTime() function that it contains.

Contributing to the Project

How to build locally

• Pull this repository
• cd bookmarklet
• npm install gets the dependencies
• npm run build builds & outputs to dist folder

How to test locally

• npm start allows you to view a bookmarklet for debug that you drag to your bookmarks bar
• open unanet
• edit a timesheet
• click the debug bookmarklet

To Run the PowerBI analytics

• Download the PowerBI file (Azure –> unanet-summarizer RG –> unanetsummarizer storage account –> analytics-powerbi container –> UnanetSummarizer.pbix
• Open the powerbi file
• If prompted for the storage URL, use https://summarizeranalytics.table.core.windows.net/analyticsentries (the table storage within the summarizeranalytics storage group)

A note on our build & release process

• The build and deployment steps run within Azure DevOps (status linked from this README file)
• A release is created upon a successful build
• The release is automatically pushed to production. By this, we mean the built JS output is pushed into the blob that we’re using to serve the content.

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