As a project manager or timesheet approver, you must review
submitted timesheets, and then approve or reject them. You can approve
or reject the entire timesheet so that time entries for all the tasks
in the timesheet are approved or rejected, or you can approve or reject
time entries for individual tasks in a timesheet.
Before you begin
Use the Timesheet Approval
viewlet to perform this task. In the navigation bar, click Timesheets,
and click the Timesheet Approval tab.
The team members
must submit the timesheet for a complete week.
About this task
When a project manager approves a timesheet, the status of
the project is updated accordingly. When a project manager rejects
a timesheet, the team member can make corrections and submit the timesheet
for approval again.
To approve or reject timesheets:
Procedure
- In the Timesheets view, ensure that the Timesheet Approval
viewlet is open.
- Select a week.
- Select a team member. To view the team member's
user ID, hover the mouse pointer over the team member's name.
- Optional: To view the context tree of the task,
hover the mouse pointer over the Actions column and click the Context
tree icon
.
- Review the tasks and complete one of
the following actions:
- Approve a single task by hovering the mouse pointer over the
Actions column and clicking the Approve task icon
.
- Reject a single task by hovering the mouse pointer over the
Actions column and clicking the Reject task icon
.Note: Your
team members might find it helpful to know why you are rejecting their
timesheets. List your reasons for rejecting the task in the
Approver
Notes field by clicking the
Timesheet Notes icon

.
- Approve all tasks for the team member in a given week by clicking
the Approve timesheet icon
.
- Reject all tasks for the team member in a given week by clicking
the Reject timesheet icon
.
As a project manager, you can enter the hours worked into
a timesheet for a team member and then approve that timesheet.
Note: Using
timesheets for effort-based and duration-based projects differs:
- In effort-based projects, the actuals are affected by the hours
submitted in the timesheets.
- In duration-based projects, the actuals are determined in the
schedule view and are not affected by timesheet submissions.