Sub feeds are important tools Grainchek uses to collect events from other feeds. One way a Grainchek user can organize a day into an itemized bill starts with building a feed that contains all events with no start and end date possible called a General Feed. Then a separate feed, maybe called Billable, will not include any tasks. The Billable Feed will only contain sub feeds: one for every billable category. When setting up each new sub feed the user will select the user’s own profile, the project and the General Feed. Then only the tasks for this billable category will be selected. Each sub feed will accumulate the time spent on only the billable tasks it is setup to collect. The Billable Feed will accumulate the time from all sub feeds. In order to itemize a single day the General Feed start and end dates are set to the day to be itemized. In the Billable feed, each sub feed will accumulate the events for that billable item for the one day that the General Feed is set to include.
As Grainchek users, we use feeds to collect events that we generate and sub feeds of events. Understanding how feeds and sub feeds work will help users organize their time tracking events and feeds that have been shared with them.
Grainchek users will use feeds different ways and one user will use different feeds in different ways. Some projects will be set up solely for the purpose of collecting feeds and reporting the accumulated time. A project for collecting feeds from friends might never have any actual events posted and the feeds will be made up entirely of sub feeds. Other projects will be heavy in local content not having any sub feeds. The feeds for this project might contain events from specific time periods or a dynamic time period. Some feeds in may only look at specific tasks. Determining who the feed is intended to be shared with also determines what information is collected and from what time period. All of these variables and scenarios are managed here in the feed settings.
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