Autotask Quick Time Entry

Kelvin Tegelaar | 31 Jul, 2019 | 2 Mins Read

Autotask’s app for iOS and Android isn’t the greatest app ever made, because of this our on-site engineers do not always enter time-entries because it’s too much of a hassle.

So to make sure that time entries are added on time by them I’ve created a quick web application to enter the time entries easily from a phone. Please note that I am not a PHP developer in any way, so if you feel the code is messy or not up to standards you are free to fix it yourself. This entire blog post comes without guarantees. 😉

preparations

You have to have a AT API user. Create this user and document the username and password. the user should have the role “API User” and have the following extra settings enabled:

Note > Contract > ImpersonateForCreate
Note > Contract > ImpersonateForModify
CrmNote > ImpersonateForCreate
CrmNote > ImpersonateForModify
Note > Project > ImpersonateForCreate
Note > Project > ImpersonateForModify
Note > ProjectTask > ImpersonateForCreate
Note > ProjectTask > ImpersonateForModify
Note > Ticket > ImpersonateForCreate
Note > Ticket > ImpersonateForModify
TimeEntry > ImpersonateForCreate
TimeEntry > ImpersonateForModify

Download the files to install here.

Installation:

Copy all files to your webhost.
edit the file bootstrap.php in _libAT. Enter your AutoTask API username and password.
Enter the correct WSDL location. You can find this in the API documentation here
browse to https://yourwebhost.com/frontend/GetRoles.php. Copy the ID you want to use as the default role.
Open SubmitTime.php and paste the DefaultRoleID in the correct location here.
Open EnterTime.php and find “worktype”. Here you’ll see a list of worktypes. edit this list to match your Autotask configuration. Keep this file open
Find all entries called “YOURWEBHOST” and replace with your actual webhost URL.

When all of this is done, you can browse to http://YOURWEBHOST.com/frontend/EnterTime.php and you’ll be be able to enter time entries in a couple of quick steps. Feel free to edit the files, change how it looks or even use it in other projects as long as you credit me as the source.

CyberDrain CTF returns! (and so do I!)

It’s been since september that I actually picked up a digital pen equivalent and wrote anything down. This was due to me being busy with life but also my side projects like CIPP. I’m trying to get back into the game of scripting and blogging about these scripts. There’s still so much to automate and so little time, right? ;)

Intro

This is a monitoring script requested via Reddit, One of the reddit r/msp users wondered how they can monitor Acronis a little bit easier. I jumped on this because it happened pretty much at the same time that I was asked to speak at the Acronis CyberSummit so it kinda made sense to script this so I have something to demonstrate at my session there.

Intro

Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’ve just been so swamped with CIPP that I’ve just let the blogging go entirely. It’s a shame because I think out of all my hobbies it’s one I enjoy the most. It’s always nice helping others achieve their scripting target. I even got a couple of LinkedIn questions asking if I was done with blogging but I’m not. Writing always gives me some more piece of mind so I’ll try to catch up again. I know I’ve said that before but this time I’ll follow through. I’m sitting down right now and scheduling the release of 5 blogs in one go. No more whining and no more waiting.