Earlier command and setup reference · Engine 18.6.0rc590 / Reader 8.11.0rc649
Definition
A source’s rows count as self-reported work unless they state source_metric_basis: source_event_stream or come from a desktop export, which is system-observed. Processing time is never a person’s work time.
Identify what the duration records
A process step from 09:00 to 11:00 establishes a two-hour step span. It does not establish that one person worked continuously for two hours. A separate time entry reporting 30 minutes is work evidence of a different kind, and a desktop observation is different again.
Before choosing a basis, trace the duration to how it was recorded. In this reference snapshot, source rows count as self-reported work unless they state source_metric_basis: source_event_stream or come from a desktop export.
Retain the evidence class
Keep reported, observed and unclassified work identifiable in downstream queries. Their time can overlap, so adding the classes can count the same time twice. Read the evidence-class rule and the scope banner on any newer measure article before comparing definitions across snapshots.