Need steps taken between 8:00am5:00pm, Monday-Friday

[Loadingzone]

Good afternoon. My employer is sponsoring a step challenge for employees. Employees can use any pedometer they want. I have a FitBit Versa 2. However, you can only document steps taken during working hours, which for me are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Is there a means of getting this information from FitBit

I know I can log into the dashboard and see a bar graph of steps I've taken throughout the day, but I've have to hover over every 15-minute time slot, write down those steps, add them up, and do it every day. Also, I need to produce "evidence" of the steps, which would be hard to do with the above option. 

Some of my coworkers have other devices and can simply report on their steps and get any time period they want. Is this possible with FitBit?

Any advice would be appreciated!

[MrMarv]

@Loadingzone -

It's quite simple, really.

<<edit>> Using the Mobile app... <</edit>>

At 5:00 pm manually log a "Walk" exercise.

I just did that - logging a walk exercise for yesterday starting at 8:00 am for a period of nine hours.

Keep in mind that I hurt my back last week during a project around the house and have been taking it pretty easy. I normally hit the treadmill twice a day for a total of two hours and regularly hit 15,000 steps. But the numbers shown below are valid.

Once you have reported your steps, you can either delete the exercise record or keep it for the Challenge record keeping.

<<edit>> Until you do delete it, the record will show up on the Web Dashboard Activities page.

<</edit>>

Good luck and welcome to the boards.

[Loadingzone]

@MrMarv , Thank you for taking the time to respond. I was hoping there was a simply means of reporting on whatever hours I wanted so I wouldn't have to remember every morning to log a "Walk" exercise. I could set an alarm to reminder me to set it every morning at 8:00am, but that's more work than I'm interested in doing. 

Thanks again for your time.

[MrMarv]

@Loadingzone -

My method doesn't require you to start an exercise at 8:00 am.

It allows you too manually enter an exercise "after the fact" whenever you want, though there may be a limitation as to how many days in the past you can log an exercise.

As I showed you in my original post, at approximately 8:45 am today I logged an exercise for 8:00 am to 5:00 pm yesterday.

<<edit>> You still use the "Stopwatch" icon in the app's Exercise page but use the "Log" function not the "Track" function. <</edit>>

[LZeeW]

@Loadingzone   Only you can decide how much work is too much work.  The is another way to do this that lets you create the record after the fact.  You must do this on your web dashboard/activity page.

On your fitbit.com dashboard, tap/click on either your Recent Exercise tile.  Or you can tap/click on the Log option at the top, then choose Activities.  Part way down the page, there is a Log Activities section.  Choose the activity record icon (the little stopwatch).  I created one called Work Steps and logged yesterday's steps today:

I don't know how long your challenge runs.  You can do this all after the fact in your leisure time, if you have it.

[Loadingzone]

@LZeeW , Thank you also for taking the time to write. This is helpful, although it also requires me to manually add up all my steps between 8:00am-5:00pm. We have to be missing something, right? I can't imagine that there isn't a way to know this information, short of manually adding for each 15 minute increment. 

Thanks again!

[LZeeW]

@Loadingzone   I guess my suggestion would have been clearer if I included this screenshot:

You can choose the day, meaning you don't have to do this each and every day.  In my example, the activity record shows 4323 work steps out of 7428 total steps.  Less than 20 key strokes for each day.  No need to count the 15 minute interval on the app.

[MrMarv]

@Loadingzone -

For my method all you need to do is fill in the start date/time and length of 9 hours - the app adds up the steps.

For @LZeeW's method you have a couple more entry points, but once again, the web page adds up the steps for you.

May I suggest you try one or both methods?