This can be done by creating automatic tag from Documents timeline. In bottom-left window below timelines, there are shown all Visual Studio Solution files, on which you worked, including full path to .sln file. Right-click desired item and select Add to AutoTag. In next step you will be able to specify more detailed rule for automatic tag, including path, where .sln file must be located.

That's right. Only a select few programs are listed with their full path, and I am able to do exactly what I want with them for those particular paths.

ie. I have the following Autotag rules set up for files that do show the full path:

AutoTag 1: Drive:/Client

AutoTag 2: Drive:/Client/Project

AutoTag 3: Drive:/Client/Project/Task

This allows me to see how long I have spent doing work for the client (Tag 1), how long I have spent on a project for that client (Tag 2) and how long I have been spending doing a specific task for that client's project (Tag 3) all based on the active file I'm working in.



Spot on, as described above, this would be immensely useful in automating the entire timesheeting process so that no manual entries would ever need to be made. I'm not the programmer obviously, but I'm curious as to why you believe it's not possible to attain the full path of files that are in use. It's like MT needs to access the file properties of a particular file to identify the full path location as you see it in Explorer and then track/match that file to the currently open application that has the matching file name.

As identified in the past, the files that are successful in this approach are those that show the full file path in the application's title bar.




The primary apps we use are 3ds Max 2012, Photoshop CS5.5, AfterEffects CS5.5, Premiere CS5.5, Microsoft Word, Notepad, Microsoft Outlook (not really applicable in this instance), FileZilla, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and there are a few others we use on occasion that are mainly plugins for the work pipeline.

Yeah, that's right. We have multiple clients, each with multiple project, but the tasks will be consistent across all projects.




Duplicate files or folders? As mentioned, the task folders are consistent and therefore the same name across all projects. The files contained within will usually have different names however.

Interested to know what can be done, and I will be keen to try out your suggestions.

Thanks,

Matt

Edited by user Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:00:16 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Cool, thanks for hearing out my suggestion :) Will keep an eye out for your updates.

Matt

We will add the regular expression rules, so you will be able to name autotags based on path.

We wont add the folder search. Its just to inefficient. There can be duplicates, also every time there is a new file it needs to refresh the whole structure. So you would have to limit it not only to folders but probably by extension and apps. Otherwise it would do this for any app for which it can't extract the document.
I get that you would probably set it to a folder with a few files, but one could also set it to c: and it would constantly scan the drive.

The only thing I can suggest is that you name your files like
Client_Project_[existing name]. This would than work, and it will require less autotags as soon as we add the regular expression rules.

Sorry.

I'm saying that we can't make it work. I wish we could, believe me, but I really don't see a way.

Side question, does it work in 3ds max? I mean do you get a full path?

I am by no means a software developer, and don't really have a clue... so I will leave it you to judge whether any of the resources I provide are of any use.

This looked like it might have some clues?
http://msdn.microsoft.co...windows/desktop/aa364963(v=vs.85).aspx