TJ3TS_SENDER(1)

💖 TJ3TS_SENDER 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for tj3ts_sender (that's from the cute little (1) manual section, iykyk) — it's part of the TaskJuggler fam and it's literally about emailing out your time sheet templates. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

tj3ts_sender — send out time sheets templates via email 💌

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tj3ts_sender [options]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, this program is the one that sends out time sheets templates via email. no cap. 🦋

it will generate time sheet templates for all the resources of the project — every single one, bestie, the whole roster 🌸

and here's the lil plot twist: the project data is not just sitting around locally. it gets accessed via tj3client from a running TaskJuggler server process. so like, there needs to be a server doing its thing, and this program goes and grabs the tea from it ☕✨

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -c, --config <FILE> — use the specified YAML configuration file. like, point it at your own file instead of it going off to find one itself 📄
• --silent — don't show program and progress information. it just shuts up and does the job 🤫
• --no-color — don't use ANSI control sequences to color the terminal output. colors should only be used when spooling to an ANSI terminal, and if that detection fails, this option is your girl — it forces the colors to be off 🚫🌈
• --debug — enable Ruby debug mode 🐛
• -d, --directory <DIR> — use the specified directory as the working directory 📁
• --dryrun — don't send out any emails or do SCM commits. a lil rehearsal, no consequences, no drama 🙈
• -r, --resource <ID> — only generate template for the given resource. one (1) person only 💅
• -f, --force — send out a new template even if one exists already. it does not care. it will send it 💀
• -e, --enddate <DAY> — the end date of the reporting period. either as YYYY-MM-DD or as a day of week. day of week goes 0: Sunday, 1: Monday, and so on. the default value is 2026-02-02 📅
• -h, --help — show this message 🫶
• --version — show version info ⭐

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✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

• HOME — the user's home folder. it's used to search for the configuration file if one isn't specified 🏠

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✨ FILES ✨

.taskjugglerrc or taskjuggler.rc

tj3d searches for a config file named .taskjugglerrc or taskjuggler.rc in the current path, the user's home path as specified by the HOME environment variable, or /etc/. 🔍

at a minimum, the file must configure an authentication key, an e-mail delivery method and the sender e-mail, like e.g.:

_global:
   authKey: ********
   smtpServer: smtp.your_company.com
   projectId: acso
_timesheets:
   senderEmail: 'TaskJuggler <statussheets@taskjuggler.amd.com>'

(and bestie, the user should specify their own auth key and set the file permissions accordingly — that key is yours, protect it 🔐)

an alternative config file location may be specified using the -c, --config FILE option.

• timesheets.log — the timesheets log file, created in the working directory 📝
• TimeSheetTemplates — base directory of the sheet templates, created in the working directory 🗂️

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

by Chris Schlaeger <cs@taskjuggler.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

For more info about TaskJuggler see http://www.taskjuggler.org 👑

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• tj3ts_receiver(1) — the other half of the duo, the receiver bestie 💞
• The full TaskJuggler manual is available online at http://www.taskjuggler.org/tj3/manual/, or via the tj3man command 📚

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real talk: that copyright year list is giving iconic longevity, we love a glow-up that spans 2006 through 2020 💖

and that's the whole page, no notes ✨ this was TaskJuggler 3.8.1, dated January 2026 — slay, periodt, go send some templates 🎀🦋💅