Add document timeline plugin support for WPS Office (Writer, Spreadsheets, Presentation)
Hi ManicTime team,
First of all, thank you for building such a great automatic time tracker — the document timeline is the killer feature for me.
I'm a heavy user of WPS Office (Writer, Spreadsheets, and Presentation) instead of Microsoft Office. Currently, ManicTime's document plugins track document names for MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but they don't recognize WPS Office applications. As a result, all my WPS work hours only show up as generic application usage (wps.exe, et.exe, wpp.exe), and the document timeline stays empty — I can't see which document I was working on at any given time.
WPS Office has a huge user base, especially in Asia, with over 500 million devices worldwide. Adding support would benefit a large number of existing and potential users.
What I'd like to see:
A document plugin that reads the document name/full path from WPS Writer (wps.exe), WPS Spreadsheets (et.exe), and WPS Presentation (wpp.exe) window titles
The WPS document title format is generally similar to MS Office (e.g., "filename.docx - WPS Writer"), so presumably the existing plugin architecture could be extended with new window-title parsing rules
This would make the document timeline just as useful for WPS users as it already is for MS Office users. Thanks for considering this!
merlinnine09
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Hi,
Thanks for the request. You don't need to wait for a plugin. ManicTime already has a built-in "Custom title" plugin that pulls the document name out of the window title using rules from a text file. WPS is in there, but with an old title format, and Spreadsheets and Presentation are missing. You can add them yourself in a minute:
In ManicTime go to Settings → Advanced → Open db folder.
Open Plugins\Storage\ManicTime.DocumentTracker.CustomTitle\Content\CustomTitle.txt in Notepad.
Add these three lines at the end. The columns are separated by a Tab character, not spaces:
wps ^\*?(.*?) - [^-]*$|.*?\[([^\]]*)\]$
et ^\*?(.*?) - [^-]*$|.*?\[([^\]]*)\]$
wpp ^\*?(.*?) - [^-]*$|.*?\[([^\]]*)\]$
Save. No restart needed, the file is re-read on save.Then open a document in WPS Writer and check the Documents timeline. The rule takes everything before the last " - " in the title, so "Report.docx - WPS Writer" gives "Report.docx". It also still handles the older "[Report.docx]" style.
If the file name doesn't show up, please paste the exact window title you see in WPS (for example from the Applications timeline) and I'll adjust the rule. We'll also add these rules to the built-in list so they ship with the next version.
