Manage Time Tracking

This article shows how to use the Manage Time Tracking function to approve or reject timesheets.

Overview

The Manage Time Tracking feature allows managers to approve or reject timesheets.  Any manager with T0 rights to a resource (Timesheet manual approval rights) or T1 rights to the resource’s OBS node (Timesheet node level manual approval rights) can use this feature to approve or reject timesheets.  If a manager has T2 or T3 rights to the resource or node, respectively, then that represents “auto approval” and the timesheets will be automatically approved. In that case, the status dropdown on this page must be changed to include “Approved” projects for them to appear.

Accessing Manage Time Tracking

To access Manage Time Tracking, click the Actuals (clock) icon at the upper left of your ResourceFirst screen and select “Manage”:

Approving or Rejecting Timesheets

Once the Manage Time Tracking option is selected, you will be presented with the Manage Time Tracking screen below. Note that the screen consists of several layers:

• The Time Period Bar – to select the week being reviewed
• The Selector Bar – to filter which data should appear
• The Timesheets pane – which lists the timesheets awaiting approval
• The Timesheet Detail pane – which shows the details for the selected timesheet

The Selector pane appears as follows:

Left to right, the functions are:

• Org filter (functions as a simple text search)
• Resource filter (functions as a simple text search)
• From/To dates to show
• Status (this defaults to show Submitted timesheets, but you can also select Open, Approved, Rejected, Adjusted, and/or Not Created)
• Reload – You must click this to reload the screen after making any of the above selections
• By Hours – This defaults to Hours but you can click to toggle to show the data in FTEs (Full Time Equivalent percentages).
• Export – to export the data

Getting Started

Once you have your filters set, select the week you wish to view and approve. Timesheets awaiting approval will appear in the top pane, and the timesheet details will appear in the bottom pane.

Note that once you click on a timesheet in the top pane, you can click Approve or Reject below to the right.

Note the timesheet colors. You can only approve timesheets that are in Submitted status (Yellow). Blue timesheets are already approved.

If you reject a timesheet, the color will revert back to Green and the submitted can make changes and resubmit.