Clockodo.NET

.NET library for the time and attendance tracking software Clockodo

Features

Clockodo.NET does currently support the following Clockodo API functionality:

• Time Entries Endpoint
• Grouping and filtering of time entries

Getting Started

To use this library you have to generate an API Key. Log into Clockodo and click on the profile icon in the top right. Then click on My Data and scroll down to API-Key. Click on Generate API-Key and copy it.

Usage

First you have to create a new instance of ClockodoService with your API token and additional information like this:

var clockodoCredentials = new Credentials(
  "your-account-email@adress.de",
  "your-api-token",
  "application-name", // You can choose any name you like
  "contact-email"     // Does not have to be the account E-Mail
);

var clockodoService = new ClockodoService(clockodoCredentials);

The application name and contact E-mail can be whatever you like. They dont have to be connected to your account or setup in clockodo. Clockodo uses it for Client-Identification.

Getting all time entries

Creating a Period

To get all time entries you first have to choose which period you want to query the time entries from.

The ClockodoPeriod class only allows for the creation of valid periods. The end date cannot be earlier than the start for example. It returns an object of the type Result.

var periodStart = new DateTime(2021, 01, 01);
var periodEnd = new DateTime(2021, 05, 31);

var periodResult = ClockodoPeriod.Create(periodStart, periodEnd);

if (periodResult.IsFailure)
{
    Console.WriteLine(periodResult.Error);
    return;
}

var period = periodResult.Value;

TimeEntry and RawTimeEntry

Then you can either use the GetRawTimeEntriesAsync or GetTimeEntriesAsync function provided by the ClockodoService instance.

The difference between the RawTimeEntry and the TimeEntry class is that the TimeEntry class already parses dates and conducts null checks, while the RawTimeEntry class only contains primitive times that might also be nullable.

// Raw data with priimitive types
var rawTimeEntries = await clockodoService.GetRawTimeEntriesAsync(period);

// Parsed objects
var timeEntries = await clockodoService.GetTimeEntriesAsync(period);

Filters

Clockodo.NET also provides filter functionality for instances of TimeEntry.

There is an EmployeeFilter and a YearFilter. Those filters can also be combined as needed.

In the following example we want to get a list of all time entries John made in the year 2021:

var filters = new List<IFilterTimeEntries>
{
  new EmployeeFilter(employee),
  new YearFilter(year)
};

var filteredEntries = timeEntries.ApplyAllFilters(filters);       

Grouping

You can also group time entries by employee and customer. This will aggregate the time entries each employee has created for a each customer he worked with.

var groupedEntries = timeEntries.GroupByEmployeeAndCustomer();