Timely to Birst Integration
AI-first ETL from Timely into Birst. Governed entities, incremental sync, typed landing tables.
How Datrise loads Timely into Birst
Datrise syncs Timely's time entries, projects, clients, users, tags, and billable hours into Birst as warehouse tables for Birst's automated star schema. Flexible or custom fields land in flattened columns, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as date/time dimensions.
Sync is incremental: Datrise uses incremental refresh of the source tables Birst ingests, so re-runs update only what changed. Date-partitioned facts. Birst builds its own semantic layer, so Datrise lands conformed, well-keyed tables it can automate against.
Ideal for networked, governed enterprise BI.
Endpoints
Timely: Automatic time tracking for teams and projects.
Birst: Cloud BI with networked analytics and enterprise semantic layers.
How Timely entities map to Birst
| Timely entity | Birst object | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| time entries | timely_time_entries | id PK · custom fields → flattened columns |
| projects | timely_projects | id PK · linked to timely_time_entries |
| clients | timely_clients | id PK · linked to timely_time_entries |
| users | timely_users | id PK · linked to timely_time_entries |
FAQ
How does Datrise handle Timely's custom fields in Birst?
Flexible values are stored as flattened columns, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native Birst types.
How does the Timely to Birst sync stay up to date?
It runs incrementally — Datrise uses incremental refresh of the source tables Birst ingests.
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