Expression which shows if timer is running

[Aivaras]

Hey. I'm looking for a way to create a view for seeing if specific ftrack user is tracking time at that moment. Basically to see if user's timer is running on a task. What I've come up with so far is to create a custom attribute with expression which looks for a user and gives 1 if that user has a timer on on that task, 0 - if not. Would something like that work? If yes, can you help me write an expression code for that? Or maybe there's another way to achieve what I need. I'm looking to achieve this in dashboard, list layout.

[Patrick Boucher ftrack]

Hi Aivaras

You could use an Enumerator custom attribute. Give the attribute a label of `Timer is on` and make its possible values `Yes` and `No`. Then you'll need to write an event listener with our Python API.

You'll have to listen to `Timer` creation and deletion events. When a `Timer` is created, you can use the `user` and `context` attributes on the timer to set the `Timer is on` value to `Yes` on the correct task. When the timer is removed, you can set the value to `No`.

Obviously the above requires some Python programming experience.

Cheers,
Patrick

[Aivaras]

Thank you, Patrick!