Nikabot

List of available commands to use with Nikabot for Slack and Nikabot for Teams

Available Nikabot commands

Easy instructions on using Nikabot, from logging work and time off hours to managing users or projects

How To

Include additional details in your time entries such as the tasks you've completed, new findings, meetings, among others

How can I add notes to my records?

Learn how to track your work and time off hours on Nikabot

How do I log time in Nikabot?

You can change the daily check-in schedule and other settings for you and your teammates

Can I change Nikabot's default log time?

Learn how to log time in advance for time off and how to use weekly check-ins

Can I log time for future dates?

Learn how to set your personal time zone on Slack and Teams and your team's time zone on Teams

How do I set the time zone?

Learn to add a missing day and edit what was entered before

How do I add or edit logs for past dates?

Nikabot helps you avoid repetitive logging

Can I make Nikabot check-in weekly?

Here's how to log those hours you put in on the weekend

Can I log time on weekends?

How to change the workday duration, set work schedule policy to Flexible or Strict, and change the color of your missing hours and overtime

How can I change the work hours policy?

Logging work hours

Schedule time off or log past dates for your co-workers through the Report Center

Can I log a teammate's vacation time in bulk?

It's easy to enter time off such as Vacations, Sick Day or Parental Leave

How do I log time off?

How to set yourself away for a few days and not have Nikabot ask you anything during that time

How do I prevent Nikabot from speaking to me when I'm on vacation?

Fill gaps of multiple empty days easily, without having to enter them individually

How can I log all the missing days in bulk?

Logging Time Off

You can archive your projects, saving their records but removing them from the list of available projects.

How do I remove projects my team is no longer working on?

How to get all the existing projects that were created by your team

Where can I see the list of projects?

Learn how to create, edit, and merge your team's projects

How do I create and edit projects?

Customize the list of options for your team to enter time off or leave days

How do I create or edit Time Off types?

Learn to quickly rename a project in Slack or in your team's report center

How do I rename a project?

How to use project properties such as Client and Type

How can I create and edit the project Client or Type?

Monitor your projects progress by setting the total estimated hours

How can I set a project's total number of contracted hours?

What happens when I delete a project?

See how to consolidate projects by merging duplicate versions of the same project

What happens when I merge projects?

Learn how to customize the list to reflect your company's own project structure

Can I change the format of the projects list?

Archiving projects prevents users from logging time on them

What happens when I archive a project?

Learn to use the Ref ID to store a secondary project or user ID and export it with your data

How can I match data from Nikabot with software that I already use?

Learn what happens when you assign user groups to projects

Can different user groups access different projects?

Managing Projects

Manage your teammate's permissions by assigning them as Nikabot admins

How can I add or remove Nikabot admins?

Here's how to manage the list of team members that are active in Nikabot

How do I activate Nikabot for new teammates?

Learn how to add new users to Nikabot and how to deactivate them for time tracking

How do I add and remove teammates?

Activate time tracking for the team members you wish to track and deactivate it for those who don't have to receive the daily reminders

How do I choose who receives the Nikabot daily check-in?

Learn how to create roles and groups to organize your reports and let you focus on the right people at the right time

How can I organize my teammates into roles and groups?

What to expect when you set a team member to inactive in Nikabot or when you remove someone from your Slack workspace or Teams team

What happens when I deactivate a teammate?

Learn to adjust your team's permissions and prevent users from accessing everyone else's info

How do I control what team members can see?

I don't want to spend my time searching for a teammate, project, or time off type in a huge list.

How do I search for a specific team member, project, or time off type?

What to know about using Nikabot to track the time of guest users in Slack and Teams

Does Nikabot work for guest users?

Managing Team members

Use the Poke feature on your teammates who are missing hours so Nikabot sends them a message for you

How can I ask my teammates to fill in their incomplete logs?

Everything you need to know about customizing your reports and learning from your data

A guide to Nikabot's reports

How to get the link to your console and access your team's reports

Where can I get reports about my team?

Filter your Overview pages for only certain users or projects, and change the order in which they are displayed

How do I filter and sort my reports?

A guide to exporting Nikabot's data into a CSV file, selecting the fields to include and custom formats

Exporting Nikabot data

Is going through the full list of users on Team Overview a hassle? Learn about your personal Overview page

How can I find my own records?

Reports

My subscription was canceled, how can I activate my account and start checking in with my team again?

How can I reactivate my subscription?

Subscribing to Nikabot

Follow these steps to cancel your account and remove the Nikabot integration from your Slack workspace or Microsoft Teams