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The IHK report book ends on 31 December 2026

Nationwide, for every chamber, with no successor from the IHK. Anyone keeping their report book there has to export it as a PDF beforehand — from 1 January 2027 there is no access. This page says what to do, and how the export carries on in MyWorkLog.

MyWorkLog is independent: not an IHK service, no agreement with any chamber. Free, offline, and your data stays on your device.

Last day for the export: 31 December 2026.

Who can export
Only the apprentice, via their own login. The company cannot trigger it.4
What you get
One PDF file with all entries. There is no other format.5
What remains
The duty to keep the training record. Without it, no admission to the final exam.1

What to do now

As an apprentice

  1. Sign in to the service portal (meineihk.service.ihk.de, “Zum digitalen Berichtsheft”).

  2. Open the tile “Berichtsheftverwaltung”, then choose “Berichtsheft herunterladen” and “Berichtsheftexport aller Einträge”.5

  3. Keep the PDF in two places, say on your device and in a cloud folder or on a USB stick. It is your proof for the final exam — even if you never continue the report book digitally.

  4. Decide how to carry on: on paper, with your chamber’s template or in a digital report book. How the export lands in MyWorkLog is explained further down.

If you add more weeks in the portal after exporting, simply export again — the PDF always contains everything up to that moment.

As a trainer

  • Tell your apprentices now. The chambers explicitly ask employers to do so.4
  • Only the apprentice can trigger the export. Set a date and file the PDF together — at the company and with the apprentice.
  • Decide how the report book is kept from January: paper, semi-digital or digital. All three are permitted under the BIBB recommendation of 2020.2
  • Whether your own IHK offers a successor varies from chamber to chamber: Magdeburg provides Azubiheft, Ostwürttemberg is not allowed to recommend anything for legal reasons. Your own IHK knows what applies.3
  • Approval does not need the IHK. In MyWorkLog, a trainer with an account approves weeks with a digital signature, for all of the company’s apprentices in one place: review and sign off report books.

How the IHK export gets into MyWorkLog

MyWorkLog reads the PDF from the service portal directly — every week, every day, the hours and the sign-off status. It happens in the browser on your device; the file is not sent anywhere.

MyWorkLog report book with the Import menu open, showing the IHK-PDF entry Import IHK export dialog with the field for dropping the PDF Weeks found after reading the file: name, occupation and company, below them every week with hours and status, two of them marked as already there

  1. Open the report book

    At myworklog.de/berichtsheft — no account, no installation. The link opens the import straight away.

  2. Start the import

    Above the list of weeks, open the “Import” menu and choose “IHK-PDF”. The dialog “Import IHK export” opens.

  3. Drop the PDF

    Drag the file from the service portal into the field or pick it. Reading takes a few seconds depending on its size.

  4. Check what was found

    At the top: name, occupation and company from the cover sheet. Below it every recognised week with calendar week, date range, hours and status — “Reviewed & signed” or “Completed”. Weeks you already have are flagged and unticked; you decide what gets taken over.

  5. Import

    “Import weeks” — done. The weeks carry the origin “IHK import”. A trainer with a MyWorkLog account sees them as “Signed off at the IHK” and gets no pending approval for them.

What is taken over

  • Per week: date range, calendar week, year of training
  • Daily basis — per day: activities as a list, hours, vocational-school day
  • Weekly basis — per week: the free text (split into school and company when the location is “Schule/Betrieb”), attendance, training hours
  • Absences such as holiday or sickness as a note
  • The “Qualifikationen” mapping into the field Instruction & training
  • The status: signed off at the IHK or merely completed
  • Name, occupation, company and start of training into the PDF export details, if nothing is there yet

What does not work

  • Signature images and attachments. The official proof of sign-off remains the PDF itself — so keep it.

Afterwards: carrying on the report book

From here on it is an ordinary report book. Write daily or weekly, mark vocational-school days, complete the week at its end. For the exam, MyWorkLog produces the PDF on your chamber’s form — the DIHK template, Cologne and Frankfurt, Munich; other chambers get the DIHK template, and it says so.

PDF export in the report book: name, company, trainer and the choice of chamber and form on the left, a live preview of one week on the DIHK template on the right

PDF export. Chamber and form on the left, on the right the week exactly as it appears on the sheet — activities, instruction, vocational school, hours, signature fields.

Approval works without the chamber: the trainer creates an account, connects to the company and signs off weeks with a digital signature; the apprentice sees the decision in the report book. It also works without an account — a single week as a link to countersign. Both are described on the page for trainers.

If you also want to track working hours, they are in the same tool: target hours, flexitime, overtime, leave. Hours from an Excel or CSV sheet can be taken over too — here is how.

Back up before anything goes wrong

MyWorkLog stores data on your device, in the browser. That is why it works without an account and offline — and the reason for this list:

  • The IHK PDF itself in two places. It is the proof you present at the exam, independent of any app.
  • Full backup after the import: in the app via Sidebar → Backup. A JSON file with everything, including the report book. Before every browser switch, reinstall, or “clear site data”.
  • Encrypted backup in the same menu: the same file, encrypted with a password (AES-256) — for cloud folders and shared computers.
  • Cloud sync optional, with an account: the data is additionally kept on a server in the EU and is available on every device.
  • Recovery Center in the settings: brings back earlier states the app itself kept in the browser — if something is missing, look there first.
MyWorkLog Recovery Center: saved states with restore and JSON export, below them the field for a backup file

What does not come back without a backup: If the browser data for myworklog.de is deleted — clearing history with “site data”, reinstalling the browser, resetting the device — the local data is gone. Without cloud sync there is no copy on a server that anyone could give back to you. The PDF, a backup or cloud sync protect you from that.

Frequently asked questions

Is MyWorkLog the successor to the IHK report book?

No. MyWorkLog has no mandate and no agreement with any IHK. The chambers name no nationwide successor; some provide their own solution, others are not allowed to recommend one. Whether a report book may be kept electronically is set out in the training contract — that applies to every tool.

What happens if I have not exported by 31 December?

According to the chambers there is no access from 1 January 2027, and no export after that. Whether an IHK can still help in an individual case we do not know — asking costs nothing. The only safe route is the one beforehand: export, file, carry on.

My trainer signed off in the portal. Does that still count after the import?

The import takes the status from the PDF and marks the week as signed off at the IHK; a trainer with a MyWorkLog account sees exactly that. The official proof of sign-off, however, remains the PDF from the portal — keep it and be able to present it at the exam if anyone asks.

I kept weekly entries in the portal, not daily ones.

Both forms are read. Weeks kept day by day arrive with daily fields, weeks kept as a whole as one weekly text — split into school and company when the location is “Schule/Betrieb”, with attendance and hours. The weekly import was built from the portal’s manual; if something lands in the wrong place for you, send the page as text to info@myworklog.de and it will be adjusted.

Do I need an account?

No. Report book and import run without an account, on your device, offline too. An account is needed for two things only: syncing between several devices and connecting to the company so the trainer can approve.

What does it cost?

Nothing, not for companies either. There are no plans and no advertising; the source code is open under the MIT licence.

Does the IHK accept a report book from MyWorkLog?

For the exam the chambers usually require a PDF; MyWorkLog produces it on the respective IHK’s form. Whether you may keep it electronically is governed by the training contract. When in doubt, ask your own IHK.

Sources

All statements about the shutdown come from the chambers themselves, read on 20 September 2026.

  1. IHK Nordschwarzwald — “discontinued nationwide as of 31 December 2026”; the duty to keep the record for exam admission remains
  2. IHK Hannover — notice of 13 March 2026; no access from 1 January 2027; paper and semi-digital remain permitted (BIBB recommendation 2020)
  3. IHK Ostwürttemberg — no recommendation of providers “for legal reasons”
  4. IHK Magdeburg — export “exclusively by the apprentices themselves”; companies should inform early; Azubiheft as this chamber’s offer
  5. IHK Region Stuttgart — export guide: Berichtsheftverwaltung → Berichtsheft herunterladen → Berichtsheftexport aller Einträge; “before 31 Dec 2026”
  6. Export guide (PDF) — the same steps as a document

The statements about MyWorkLog come from the app itself and from the privacy policy and legal notice. “IHK” and “Serviceportal Bildung” are designations of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce; MyWorkLog is not affiliated with them.

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