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Giulia Satmary

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:21:46 AM8/3/24

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The manual for the original Si series FARO Laser Tracker is no longer available because a large amount of the manual no longer applies to the tracker after the many revisions of firmware updates that have all been implemented during services or recertifications of the tracker. For example, all of the information on using CompIT no longer applies and new features such as Smart Warmup have been implemented. Below, you can find a compatible version of tracker manual:

The current revision of the manual does not have this model's accuracy specifications, which, since the tracker's original release, has been rewritten per the ASME B89.4.19 Standard. Below, you can find these specifications:

A new client informed me today that he only wants me to input my hours manually at the end of the day, He said he trusts that I am working and that the tracker just seems like a hastle. I have no issue with using the tracker and this is the first time someone has asked me not to use it. Why would a client prefer manual over the time tracker? I am not sure how I feel about this....

re: "A new client informed me today that he only wants me to input my hours manually at the end of the day... have no issue with using the tracker and this is the first time someone has asked me not to use it. Why would a client prefer manual over the time tracker?"

In most of my project the clients actually entrusts me with critical business information. Ending a contract prematurely will probably cause me to lose some payment, but without a proper handover, I guess they'd have a bigger trouble getting someone else to fix it if something goes wrong.

Also, if something fail for one of my clients, I can attend to it within minutes as I set up triggers and notifications to inform me. I can't really have screenshots of that work taken by Upwork app and inadvertently displayed to someone who is not supposed to see it.

I'm a person who's earned lotsa money here via manual hours and I never use the tracker. That said, manual hours have zero protection. If you typically use the tracker and have no issues with it, then I think you should insist on it. I can't imagine why it would make any difference to the client unless he wants the ability to cheat you out of part or all of the payment.

There is no payment protection on manually-entered hours. At the very least, as the client why they prefer manually-entered work time rather than TimeTracker-tracked work time. There might be a very good reason, so please share it with us.

While most of my customers have been great, I had one who decided he suddenly didn't like my work and then made a refund claim. Had I been using manual time tracking, I would have lost the many hours I had put into the job. Fortunately, I had used the time tracking application for all of my time and my pay was covered by Upwork's Hourly Protection and I was able to ignore the request to take the money off me that I had earned.

I have one or two clients where I will very occasionally use manual time tracking for small units of time, but honestly, they are customers I trust and the amounts I track are small enough that if something went wrong, then I could bear to lose it.

It comes down to manual track only what you are prepared to lose, and only then when the chances of losing it are very low. The time tracker is there for your protection, it just makes sense to use it.

"Dear Client, thanks for expressing your concern. Please be reassured that I have no issues in using the time tracker and my preference is to follow Upwork's guidelines at all times. I can confirm that via the time tracker, my working hours on your behalf will be promptly and accurately registered in the system for your evaluation. If you wish to skip the step of evaluating the work diary in detail, please feel free to do that and be reassured that payment will be released automatically every week without you having to bother with it. I hope that this helps, best regards"

I hired an UpWorker to do a good-sized project (at $70 / hr) and I totally missed the Manual / Track section on the job posting. I honestly think that option has been made difficult to find as I just posted a new on job on UpWork and CAN NOT find that option.

Anyway... since the option for MANUAL time tracking was left open, I was charged $2200 for 31 hours of work. In that 31 hours, she updated the theme (30 minutes probably) and changed 3 icons. $2200 for that little bit of work since we accidentally left the job as MANUAL instead of TRACKED. This entire issue with the designer AND UpWork left me with huge distrust of using UpWork again. I went to a competitor for our remaining large jobs (STO**TAK**R) - I muted those as so not to promote a competitor.

Try posting a job and see how hard it is to select "Manual Hours" and "Tracked Hours". It's VERY EASY to miss... I found this forum post since I just Googled "Upwork Select Manual Hours" - BECAUSE I STILL CAN'T FIND OUT HOW TO DO IT. IT'S THAT HIDDEN!

I believe you allow or don't allow manual hours when you create the contract, not the job postings...but I'm not a client. I've never seen a job posting specify manual or tracked time unless they put it in the body for some reason.

I would recommend that you try posting a job. This way, you will see exactly how difficult it is to request Manual Hours / Tracked hours. I am currently posting a job at this moment - and the "Tracked Hours" option is not visible. At this time (since I've wasted 40 minutes on this job / contract), I'm just going to change the job / contract to a flat $50.

Also - I've been w/ UpWork since 2014 and have posted NUMEROUS jobs. So this is not user error. This is a change made by Upwork and it is not for the better. I don't like flat rate job postings... and if I can't (easily) require job tracking - we will have to look at other options.

NOTE: I just Posted and Reposted the Job. Once as Hourly and once as Budget / Flat Rate. At NO time does it ask for Manual / Hourly tracking... or any type of tracking. I've lost total confidence in trusting people to manage their own hours (after getting scammed out of $2200)... and if I can't require hourly tracking / screen shots - then we are definitely going to use a different service.

As Julie pointed out already, you set up whether you want to allow manual time or not for an hourly contract during the process of hiring the freelancer on an hourly job, NOT while posting a job post. While posting a job post you decide between fixed rate and hourly. During the hiring process (right at the beginning, under "terms") you decide whether to allow manual time or not.

When a client allows manual time and the freelancer logs hours manually, that is actually the SAFEST way for a client. There is no payment protection for the freelancer with manual time, so as long as a client acts in time, they can dispute manual time and get all their money back by default. A freelancer can't win a dispute over manual time.

You CAN require it, as always, while hiring the freelancer, but it is so much safer for you not to. If a freelancer tracks their hours properly, no matter how many, you can't win a dispute. However, you will always win a dispute over manual time by default, provided you do so in time.

Is there a function to manually add a torrent file into sonarr? I know this defeats the purpose of the automatic searching, but can I add a torrent from another location (e.g. tracker that is not supported) and have sonarr do the renaming and moving as well as having it in the database with correct quality for future use?

I've been using SmartSheets over the past month or so to replace my project management / status trackers. I like the automations (mostly) and that it seems fairly easy to use. It seems like it has some problems that I find very surprising and make me wonder if I just don't know of a better way.

Dashboards are lagging behind sheets in terms of flexibility and ease of use. There is no "theme" you can set up and if you add your own colors to the palette you need to do this on every dashboard - it isn't remembered (which for me means having a post-it with color codes on!). It is improving though. There was a recent update that allows you to edit multiple widgets at once so you don't need to set the colors for every single graph. But I believe, you still need to do it for every dashboard and each time you add a single new graph.

One thing that may help you ? is if you set up your basic project plan sheets and dashboards and then use them as a template for all the subsequent ones. That would save you building dashboards entirely from scratch each time. You would only need to edit them. It also has the advantage that there will be a lot of commonality across projects which will enable you to harness the power of the reports.

Good question. I'll give it a shot and see if that works better. I'm open to trying anything, especially since I'm trying to get our team to adopt this more widely, and the heavy reliance on a manual set-up process is going to be a huge barrier to that objective.

-The Project Tracker is set up the way that it is because that's what's easiest for my team to read and work with. The Metrics grid is set up the way that it is because of the way the Dashboards work-I want to use the Pie / Donut graphs to show, for a given phase, what percentage of tasks are On Hold, what percentage are Complete, etc. And the only way to show it seems to be to lay it out in that way with each status on its own row and the phases as their own columns.