Hive News

With the Hive Home Page, you can share important news, knowledge, and resources on your team. It is a beautiful way to share essential items in your team that you don't want to lose in a chat group.

On the news page, you can:

Post updates to all in your workspace that can include text, videos, images, links, and file attachments
Comment on contributions from other people on your team
Provide links to resources that your team can access at any time

To enable Hive News:

Go to the "Hive Apps" page.
It should open the user's dashboard. Hive News sits in the workspace.
To add it, click the slide button.

* Note: Only your workspace administrator can enable/disable workspace functions. Please contact them to have them toggle these features. You can also use the app from the navigation screen to easily access it.

To create a post:

Go to the News page. Click "New Post."
Enter the desired content
Post it!
Everyone on your team will receive a notification letting them know they can check it out.

To create a link:

Click the "+ Add new link."
Type text to display
Paste URL
Click "Save"
Your link is now added to your news page!

More on hive apps

It is a place where teams can manage their integration and functions to customize the Hive.

Access Hive apps

To open Hive apps, click on "Apps" on the left. It consists of two categories of apps:

1) My apps: Any integrations or functions you can access and use at an individual level.

These include all file storage, integrations, video conferencing, and Zapier.

2) Workspace apps: Any integrations or functions you can turn on and off for all in your workspace. *Please note only administrators can activate workspace apps.

It covers access to premium features like forms, time tracking, and news.

Apps that are grayed out have not been added to the workspace. Apps that have the logo in color have been added. Each app has the hyperlink "more" to direct you to a help center article that explains how it works. Click on the slide button to add an app. If the app is integrated into another system, you may need to enter login credentials.

Time Tracking in Hive

Actual data on how the team has spent its time uncovers insights and better decision-making and answering questions like:

Which customers or projects are receiving the most attention?
Are we charging enough for our services for the effort it takes us to do so?
Is there an inefficient step in my plan that always takes longer than I have estimated?

The key to starting with the Hive Time module is to focus on three issues:

Choosing where people record their time
Creating your categories or project data points
Announcing this to the team

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Hive Time Tracking allows you to record how long your work takes - in the same place where you manage what you need to do. In Hive, it is conveniently in the action card. Even better, team leaders can access timetable reports that make it easy for them to understand the big picture. This visibility contributes to keeping projects on the budget and prevents overwork.

Add Time Estimates

If you create an action, you can also now add a time estimate. This enables you to set expectations for the person who works on the task and quickly identify time overruns.

To add a time estimate:

Open the action card that needs an estimate of time.
Click on the Time Tracking app.
Add an estimate under the column "estimated."

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Record Time

If you are working on an action, you can add your time directly to the card. You add time by editing the "total" time or using the time recorder.

To add time by editing 'Total' Time:

Open the action card, which requires a time record.
Click 'Add time.'
Enter the time spent and the date (Pro tip: Use our Quick Add Options to add time to your card easily)
If your organization uses time categories, you can choose the appropriate category for the time you follow.
Enter a short description of what you have been working on (optional)
Press Save

Review and delete time entries

You can enter multiple entries daily or several times a day if necessary. To check the time tracking app on the action card and click on the action title to check all entries. You can connect to expand and determine the details of each entry. To delete a time, hover over it and click on the trash button.

Time tracking reporting

When your team takes the time, team managers can understand their progress in the timetable. To get access to it, go to Hive apps and available time tracking.

In this report, you can:

Note time tracked vs. time estimated.
Expand to view time spent on each task
Filter by project
Filter by team
Filter by individual team members
Define the period over which you want to see the time tracked
Export your report to excel

Other Important Things to Know

Utilizing Special Functionalities