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Lesson 1: Enter and submit a timesheet

In this lesson, you will learn how to submit a timesheet as a team member who has been assigned tasks. You will enter information about three weeks of work for two tasks and then submit the timesheets to a project manager for approval. After you submit a timesheet, you cannot edit it unless your project manager rejects it.
Before you begin this lesson:

You can view the status of the project in the Schedule viewlet in the Work view. Note the percent complete (%C) and percent effort complete (%EC) for your project.

To submit a timesheet:

  1. Open the Timesheets view and select the My Timesheet tab. If you have multiple tasks with the same name and are not sure which project they belong to, in the Actions column, click the Context Tree icon Context tree icon. to view the project hierarchy.
  2. Select a week.
  3. Enter the hours that you worked on Task 1 and Task 2 by double-clicking on the fields for each day.
    When the field is double-clicked, it becomes highlighted in grey which allows it to be editable.
  4. In the Actions column, click the Timesheet Notes icon Timesheet Notes icon.. Enter notes about Task 2 in the Submitter Notes field: describe why this task took longer to complete than necessary.
    Submitter notes explaining there were unexpected server problems.
  5. Click Submit.
  6. Select a second week.
  7. Enter the hours that you worked on Task 1 and Task 2 during that week.
  8. Enter the percent complete (%C) for each task.
  9. Optional: Enter any additional effort that you require.
  10. Click Submit.
  11. Select a third week.
  12. Enter the hours that you worked on Task 1 and Task 2 during that week.
  13. Click Submit.
You have submitted three timesheets. In the next lesson, you will learn how a project manager approves or rejects those timesheets.

Lesson checkpoint

In this lesson, you learned how to submit a timesheet.
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