Review DeskTime project and app activity together
See the project and app time returned for an employee in one scheduled review, without running separate lookups.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Employee Projects and Apps
Tool to retrieve an employee's tracked projects and application usage. use when you need combined project/app time data for a given employee and date (defaults to current user and today). example: "get projects and apps for employee 711867 on 2025-07-28."
Why this helps
Project time and application activity are harder to review when they require separate checks or are forgotten until later.
- Retrieve project and application usage together.
- Choose a specified employee and date for the lookup.
- Have the results delivered to a chosen report channel.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect DeskTime once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis what to automate from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, name the employee and date to check and ask Notis to summarize the returned project and app data.
- 4Choose the recurring schedule trigger and where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real employee and date.
Questions about this workflow
Can I use this for a particular employee?
Yes. Specify the employee and date in the instruction. The action defaults to the current user and today if those are omitted.
Does the workflow determine whether app usage was productive?
The action returns tracked projects and application usage. Any productivity interpretation should use criteria you provide and should not be inferred from the lookup alone.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Ably to Desktime. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Ably triggers
Desktime actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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