Dimensions

Dimensions are custom categories you can attach to time registrations, letting you break worked time down by your own organizational attributes — cost center, client segment, work type, and so on.

Overview

A dimension is a named list of allowed values. Once you create a dimension, you enable it on the activities where it should apply. When an employee registers time on such an activity, they pick one of the dimension’s values alongside the activity.

Each dimension carries:

Name — what employees see when picking a value
Key — a stable code (lowercase with underscores, e.g. client_segment) used by the API and in exports
Description (optional) — a short explanation of what the dimension captures
Values — the choices employees can pick from

Manage dimensions

Go to Settings › Dimensions
Use Add Dimension to create a new one
Click a row to open the dimension editor

Configure a dimension

Basic information

Name — the label shown in pickers and reports
Key — the stable code used by integrations and exports

Choose the key carefully. It is meant to stay stable so that exports and integrations keep working, while the name can be changed freely.

Description — optional help text

Values

Add one row per choice. Each value has:

Name — what employees see in the picker
Code — a short identifier used in exports
Active — when turned off, the value is kept for historical registrations but can no longer be selected on new ones

Use Add value to add more rows, and the trash icon to remove one.

Turn a value inactive rather than deleting it when you no longer want it selected. This keeps past registrations that used the value intact.

Using dimensions on activities

Dimensions do nothing on their own — they take effect once you enable them on a work activity. On each activity you can choose whether a dimension is required and optionally restrict which of its values are allowed. See Activities.

Activity lists Reasons