Manage timesheet, time log period, time log restriction, and multiple timer restriction settings.
Log Hours for Closed Bugs
You can now enable time logs for closed bugs.
- Click
in the top navigation panel.
- Navigate to Portal Configuration > Timesheet Settings > Timesheet Settings tab.
- Scroll to Log Hours for Closed Bugs section.
- Select Allow or Don't Allow based on your preference.
- Click Update.
Timesheet Approval Settings
- Click
in the top navigation panel.
- Navigate to Portal Configuration > Timesheet Settings > Timesheet Settings tab.
- Scroll to the Timesheet Approval Process section.
- Set your approval process according to your preference.
- Click Update.
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Multiple Timers Restriction
Restrict users from starting multiple timers in your portal.
- Click
in the top navigation panel.
- Navigate to Portal Configuration > Timesheet Settings > Timesheet Settings tab.
- Scroll to Multiple Timers Restriction.
- Select Allow or Don't Allow.
- Click Update.
Time Log Period Settings
Time logs are an effective way to track your users' hours. You can customize your past and future time-log settings, or even remove time logs entirely.
To customize your time log settings:
- Click
in the top navigation panel.
- Navigate to Portal Configuration > Timesheet Settings > Timesheet Settings tab.
- Scroll to the Time Log Period Settings section.
- Select Allow, Don't Allow, or Customize option for Log past time and Log future time functions.
- The restriction can also be applied when editing timesheets. Select the option Apply this restriction when editing timesheets (applicable only for Don't Allow and Customize options).
- Click Update.
Log Past Time
This setting determines whether to log past time.
Here are your options:
Allow
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Log all past time
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Don't Allow
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Do not log past time
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Customize
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Allow past time logs for any specific length of time. Weekends and configured holidays will not be taken into account when selecting your time-log span.
For example:
-If you select 5 days before 09/19/2016, you will log time till - 09/12/2016
-If you select 5 weeks before 09/19/2016, you will log time until 08/12/2016
-If you select 5 months before 09/19/2016, you will log time until 04/19/2016
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Log Future Time
This setting determines whether to log future time.
Here are your options:
Allow
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Log all future time
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Don't Allow
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Do not log future time
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Customize
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Allow future time logs for any specific length of time. Weekends and configured holidays will not be taken into account when selecting your time-log span.
Example:
-If you select 5 days from 09/19/2016, you can log time until 09/26/2016
-If you select 5 weeks from 09/19/2016, you can log time until 10/24/2016
-If you select 5 months from 09/19/2016, you can log time until 02/19/2017
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The Time log settings will reflect in the following modules:
Affected modules
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Relevant action
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Affected module component
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Bugs
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Log hours for individual bugs.
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Date picker
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Timesheet
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Logging time for a particular bug on a daily basis.
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Date picker
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Logging time for a particular bug on a weekly basis.
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Date picker
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Logging time or editing an existing time log.
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Date picker
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Editing log entries.
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Date picker
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Example:
Joan wants to allow time-log entries for all past days while restricting entries to only two weeks in the future.
Set the Past time-log to Allow- past days.
Set the Future time-log to custom—2 weeks in the future
If the current date is 02/15/2017, all the users in the project will be able to log entries for all past days, and only until 03/01/2017 in the future. These settings will be reflected in all date pickers shown above.
Time Log Restriction
- Click
in the top navigation panel.
- Navigate to Portal Configuration > Timesheet Settings > Timesheet Settings tab.
- Scroll to Time Log Restriction and toggle to enable the setting.
- The Daily log hour limit and Weekly log hour limit are calculated based on business hours by default . You can edit the log hour limits as required.
- The daily log hour limit cannot exceed 24 hours and the weekly log hour limit cannot exceed 168 hours.
- Click Update at the bottom of the page.
Time Log Reminder
The time log reminder can be used to
remind users to update their daily and weekly time logs.
- Click
in the top navigation panel.
- Navigate to Portal Configuration > Task & Timesheet > Timesheet Settings tab.
- Scroll to Time Log Reminder and toggle to enable the setting.
- Set the time for Daily and Weekly Reminder based on your preference.
- Check the Notify running timers.
- Select the profiles or users to Exclude reminder for.
- Click Update.
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