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DeskTime

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11 actions for DeskTime workflows.

01. Operations

Act on DeskTime from a workflow

Operations are the actions a workflow can take in DeskTime, grouped by category. Each lists its method, parameters, and a template you can drop it into.

Account

1 operation

Retrieve information about your DeskTime account, including settings and configuration details. Use these operations when you need to access account-level data for verification or integration setup purposes.

Action

Get Account Details

DESKTIME_GET_ACCOUNT_DETAILS

Retrieve your company's work schedule settings, hours, and timezone configuration to understand how your time tracking is set up. Use this to verify your organization's official work hours and ensure your team's time entries align with your configured schedule.

Employees

4 operations

Manage and retrieve employee information within your DeskTime organization. These operations help you fetch individual employee details, their app usage data, basic profile information, and generate comprehensive lists of all company employees for reporting or synchronization workflows.

Action

Get All Company Employees

DESKTIME_GET_ALL_COMPANY_EMPLOYEES

Retrieve a complete list of all employees in your organization along with their roles and current statuses. This helps you maintain an accurate view of your team structure and employee information.

2 input
Action

Get Employee

DESKTIME_GET_EMPLOYEE

Retrieve detailed information about a specific employee including their work settings, tracking data, and productivity metrics for a given date. Use this to monitor individual employee performance or access your own work data.

2 input
Action

Get Employee Apps

DESKTIME_GET_EMPLOYEE_APPS

Retrieves a list of applications used by an employee on a specific date, showing which tools and software were actively used during work hours. This helps you understand your team's productivity patterns and software usage trends.

2 input
Action

Get Employee Basic Data

DESKTIME_GET_EMPLOYEE_PROJECTS_AND_APPS

Fetch an employee's profile information, work hours, productivity metrics, and current project activity for a specific date to monitor team performance and attendance. This helps you track who's working, how productive they are, and what they're actively working on.

2 input

Health

1 operation

Verify the connectivity and availability of the DeskTime API. Use this operation to test your integration connection before executing critical workflows or to monitor API responsiveness.

Action

Ping DeskTime API

DESKTIME_PING_REQUEST

Verifies that the DeskTime API is running and accessible so you can confirm your time tracking service is online before performing critical operations.

Projects

3 operations

Create and manage projects within DeskTime for time tracking and task organization. These operations allow you to set up new projects with optional tasks and retrieve project assignments for specific employees to support time allocation workflows.

Action★ Featured

Create Project with Optional Task

DESKTIME_CREATE_PROJECT_WITH_TASK

Set up a new project in DeskTime with an optional initial task to start organizing your work immediately. Useful for automating project creation workflows without manual setup.

2 input
Action★ Featured

Get Projects List

DESKTIME_GET_PROJECTS_LIST

Retrieve all active projects for your company along with their associated tasks to get a complete overview of ongoing work.

Action

Get Employee Projects

DESKTIME_GET_EMPLOYEE_PROJECTS

Retrieves detailed project assignments, time tracking metrics, and productivity statistics for an employee on a specific date, including active projects, work hours, and efficiency data.

2 input

Tasks

2 operations

Control task execution within projects by starting and stopping time tracking. Use these operations to automate task transitions in your team's workflow, ensuring accurate time logging for active work.

Action★ Featured

Start Project Task

DESKTIME_START_PROJECT_TASK

Starts time tracking for a specified project and optional task in DeskTime, automatically creating them if they don't exist. Only one project can be tracked at a time, so starting a new one stops tracking on the previous one.

2 input
Action★ Featured

Stop Project Task

DESKTIME_STOP_PROJECT_TASK

Ends time tracking for a specific project and task, recording when your work session finishes so you can accurately measure project time and productivity.

2 input
What now

Use DeskTime in a workflow

Drop a trigger and an action into a template; approve from your phone; the workflow runs.