Logging from an issue
Every issue has a Time tracking panel. It’s the same time log as your timesheet, filtered to that issue — anything you add here appears on your timesheet immediately, and vice versa.
Logging
Type a duration, check the date, and choose Log. The date defaults to today; the chips beside it jump to yesterday or tomorrow, and the control itself opens a calendar for anything else.
More options opens the same action with more fields — a longer description, any custom attributes your admin has set up, and the option to log the same amount for the rest of the week. It is the long version of the same row, not a second way of typing an entry.
The panel also carries a timer, for work you’d rather capture as it happens than write down afterwards. It ends in the same place: an entry on the same day, on this issue. See Timing your work.
Everyone, or just you
The toggle at the top switches between everyone’s time on the issue and only your own. It changes both the total and the list underneath. You can see other people’s entries on issues you can view in Jira, but you can’t edit them — and you only see their time once they’ve submitted it. Drafts are private to the person who logged them, theirs and yours alike.
Progress against the estimate
If the issue has an original estimate in Jira, the panel shows logged time against it, and warns you when the total goes over.
If nobody has estimated the issue, you’ll see the total on its own. We don’t invent a target to measure against — a percentage with a made-up denominator is worse than no percentage. Add an original estimate in Jira and the bar appears.