Time Cards Week starts on field Question

Community Alums · ‎08-31-2015

We're looking to allow our project workers the ability to create Time Cards as well as make the Week starts on field editable so they can capture things like admin work, training, etc, This would also allow them to go back and create time cards in case they forgot to create one. In the Access Control time_card.week_starts_on in the description it says "This field's value is calculated, and therefore cannot be modified manually.". Are there any consequences in doing what I'm proposing and how have other people captured admin tasks and creating past time cards if a worker forgets to do one?

Thanks,

Aryanos

anna_scheib · ‎08-31-2015

I can't really think of a truly negative outcome of what you are considering. The week_starts_on field is a date field that defaults to the start of the current week as defined per the properties (Sunday, Monday, etc.). It can be changed to any valid date, even one that technically isn't an actual week start. So you could end up with some randomness in the Week_starts_on field if end users fail to pick a valid week start date. However, if you do not care to have accurate reporting on hours submitted to the day, then you may still be ok. As an example, if your utilization reports or time submission reports are configured to report on time cards submitted within a given quarter, or a month, or even a week, then having time cards with odd week_starts_on dates doesn't really matter, we look at the big picture and aggregate all hours reported for the given month, quarter, etc.

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kellykaufmann · ‎09-14-2015

BTW you may want to look into how we implemented time Worked & Time Cards - see my blog post 'Time' Implementation Blog Post.