Entering a timesheet

For each effort-based project, you can report progress on your assigned tasks by updating your timesheet. After you submit a timesheet, you are not allowed to edit the timesheet entries until the project manager or the designated approver rejects one and requests you to submit the timesheet again.

To perform this task, you must have the required security permission. For more information about security permissions, see User security settings.

All the tasks assigned by your project manager are listed in the My timesheet viewlet. You can be assigned to a similar task for two different projects. To differentiate tasks with the same name for different projects, you can refer to the context tree. If you click a task, the context tree consisting of nodes that correspond to the contexts of each project is displayed. By this way, you will be able to view to each task and its corresponding project.

When assigning task to a team member, the project manager enters start date, end date, and the duration needed to complete the task. When you login to Tara and open My timesheet viewlet, inputs for the expected start, expected finish, and the expected total work fields are already provided by your project manager during task assignment. You cannot edit these fields.

To report the hours that you worked on a task:
  1. Open the Timesheet viewlet. By default the Timesheet viewlet displays the current week. Use the Week icon to choose a different week.
  2. Select a task and enter time for each day of the week that you worked on that task.
  3. Optional: If you have worked for more than the planned effort, enter the additional time in hours in the Additional Effort column.
  4. Optional: Associate a time code to the task:
    1. Click the Time code column.
    2. From the Time code window, Click on the appropriate time code. Should you want to add a child-level time code, click the arrow, and select the appropriate time code.
    3. Click Assign. If you want to associate multiple time codes, repeat step 4.
  5. Save the timesheet as a draft or submit it for approval:
    • To save the timesheet as a draft, click Save. You can continue editing the saved timesheet, and submit it for approval later.
    • To submit the timesheet for approval, click Submit. The timesheet is saved and a notification is sent to the approver. When you submit the timesheet for the current week, all the other timesheets, including the saved and the rejected timesheets from previous weeks are submitted.
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