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How to measure time spent creating a document?

S1monS1mon Member Posts: 2,986 PRO
in General
I know that analytics are a feature of Enterprise accounts. I just have a Standard account.

Is there a way to export the full change history of a document to see all the time stamps? I'm trying to estimate how much time I spent creating/editing a document.

It doesn't have to be clean, but if I could get something that I could parse with Excel or some tool, I could estimate the time much better.

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  • EvanReeseEvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm pretty sure this is hard without Enterprise because it's an Enterprise feature. We recently upgraded to Enterprise and the analytics offer a lot of granular detail. I wish they'd at least give everyone the option to export the history as a csv and let you figure out what it means.
    Evan Reese
  • matthew_mueller537matthew_mueller537 Member Posts: 25 EDU
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    @S1mon you can get the document's history with the get document history API endpoint. There's an example Python function in this snippets library if you want to automate the time analysis.

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  • S1monS1mon Member Posts: 2,986 PRO
    Bumping this in case people missed it during the holiday....
  • EvanReeseEvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Answer ✓
    I'm pretty sure this is hard without Enterprise because it's an Enterprise feature. We recently upgraded to Enterprise and the analytics offer a lot of granular detail. I wish they'd at least give everyone the option to export the history as a csv and let you figure out what it means.
    Evan Reese
  • nick_papageorge073nick_papageorge073 Member, csevp Posts: 825 PRO
    edited January 2022
    Edit: I posted in the wrong thread.
  • S1monS1mon Member Posts: 2,986 PRO
    Nope, nothing to do with education, except perhaps a learning experience for me to figure out a better tracking system in advance instead of thinking I can retroactively figure out the amount of time I spent.

    I did some contract work and didn't do a great job of keeping track of my time. I need to bill a client and want some way to help myself reconstruct my hours.
  • nick_papageorge073nick_papageorge073 Member, csevp Posts: 825 PRO
    Sorry my comment was for another thread!
  • matthew_mueller537matthew_mueller537 Member Posts: 25 EDU
    Answer ✓
    @S1mon you can get the document's history with the get document history API endpoint. There's an example Python function in this snippets library if you want to automate the time analysis.
  • S1monS1mon Member Posts: 2,986 PRO
    @matthew_mueller537
    Thank you. I haven't done anything with the APIs yet, but this will be worth the time to dig into.
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