Kimai Browser Plugin

Log time directly to a Kimai instance directly from a browser extension.

Installing

1. Copy the folder BrowserPluginBundle into the var/plugin folder in your Kimai instance.
2. Install the Chrome extension from your Kimai instance, /en/kimai-browser-plugin, use the link on the left hand side.
3. Set the location of your Kimai in the extension.

What does it do?

The extension adds a button to Chrome. On clicking, it will open your Kimai instance in a browser popup. The browser extensions sends the current tab URL to your Kimai instance, and the plugin will try and parse that and pre-fill some fields in the create form.

Currently supported

• Github - The plugin will try and separate out the project and issue number and tag those on the timesheet. The plugin will try and pre-fill the Customer, Project and Activity from previous timesheet entries.

Tighten permissions

If you want to tighten permissions then edit the file chrome_ext/public/manifest.json and fine the line:

"*://*/*"

Change this to match the root of your Kimai installation:

"https://kimai.example.org/*"

And the rebuild the extension, re-install it from the link in Kimai.

Rebuilding the Extension

Change directory into chrome-ext, install the deps (you'll need npm installed), then build and package the extension.

cd chrome_ext
npm install # <-- only needed the first time
npm run build
npm run package
npm run deploy