Timesheets are populated with the tasks and projects you are currently assigned to when you go into the timesheet for the first time, although timesheets can later be reset.
Introduction
You can record time against projects, project tasks and overhead tasks. Whenever you look at your timesheet for the first time (or if you click the 'Replace All' button) the system will add rows to it based on the following rules.
Overhead tasks
The system will create an overhead task row for you if either:
- you recorded time against the task last week or
- you are currently assigned to the task.
Project tasks
You can only record time against project tasks if the 'Allow time against project tasks' Global Configuration option is enabled. If it is then the system will create a project task row for you for all the tasks you are assigned to that week.
Note that the system takes the earliest of the task's planned and actual start dates, and the latest of the planned and actual end dates, and then adds on the 'Number of days after end of project task in which time can be recorded' from the Global Configuration to work out whether the task applies to the current week.
Projects
You can only record time against project if the 'Allow time against projects' Global Configuration option is enabled. If that option and the 'Allow time against project tasks' option are both enabled (ie you mainly record time against tasks) then the system will create a project row for you for all projects that you recorded time against directly in the previous week.
If you cannot record time against project tasks (ie you only record time against projects directly) then the system will create a project row for you for all projects where you are assigned to tasks that week (using the same rules as described above for project tasks).
Repopulating a timesheet
Your timesheet is populated with tasks and projects when you look at it for the first time. If you look at timesheet that is for a date in the future then the rows that get created will probably be wrong when that date finally comes around. If this happens you can use the 'Replace all' button to remove all existing rows and have the system create the right rows for you.
