Time Sheet Portal
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Summary of Time Sheet Portal
The Time Sheet Portal in ServiceNow Australia release provides a centralized interface for users to view and manage all their assigned tasks and record time spent on them within a given week. It integrates with the Task table, covering task types such as projects, incidents, problems, and change requests, allowing users to efficiently log time, submit time sheets, and track approvals.
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Key Features
- Unified Task View: Displays assigned tasks as cards, including incidents, problems, change requests, projects, project tasks, stories, scrum tasks, test plans, defects, and enhancements. Tasks are filtered based on status and assignment during the selected week.
- Task Management: Users can search, sort, and filter tasks by category or priority, create and edit time cards, add notes, and manage time entries easily.
- Group and Other Tabs: Group Tasks tab lists tasks assigned to a user’s assignment group, while the Other tab allows logging time for operational work like administration and meetings, filtered by active categories.
- Time Sheet Navigation: The header provides date range display, calendar navigation, and quick access to current week time sheets. Managers can open and edit time sheets of their resources.
- Time Sheet Section: Shows weekly date range, time sheet state, daily task counts and hours, and detailed breakdown by work categories. Users can submit, approve, reject, recall, or copy time sheets.
- Logged Time Cards Section: Displays detailed time card entries with options to edit, delete, or add notes. Supports multiple rate types and resource plans if enabled in policy. Duplicate time cards can be merged.
- Resource Assignment Support: Users can select specific resource assignments when creating or submitting time cards, configurable by administrators.
- Notification System: Displays notifications for submitted, rejected, or recalled time sheets and cards, allowing quick access to relevant records.
Usage and Practical Benefits
- Users can efficiently track and manage time spent across diverse task types in one consolidated portal, enhancing accuracy and compliance with time sheet policies.
- Managers gain visibility and control over their team’s time sheets, including the ability to submit or edit on behalf of their direct reports.
- The portal supports streamlined approval workflows for submitted time sheets, facilitating timely processing and feedback.
- Flexible navigation and filtering improve user experience by allowing quick focus on relevant tasks and time entries.
- Resource assignment capabilities enable more granular tracking of work effort aligned with specific assignments.
Additional Considerations
- The portal is optimized for desktop use and may not render properly on mobile devices.
- Time sheet policies govern creation and editing of time cards, including visibility of rate types and resource plan columns.
- Administrators can customize visible categories and enable resource assignment columns to tailor the portal to organizational needs.
Time Sheet Portal categorizes and displays all your assigned tasks in a single view for a given week. The portal enables you to record time spent on tasks on a day-to-day basis and submit the time sheet in a single action.
- Generate time cards for assigned projects or project tasks.
- Copy time cards from a previous time sheet.
- Search and create a time card for a task that is not displayed in the assigned tasks list.
- Edit, delete, or add notes to a time card.
- Submit, approve, reject, and recall a time sheet.
- View notifications for the submitted, rejected, and recalled time sheets or time cards.
Time Sheet Portal comprises of the following sections:
Header
- Displays a date range of the time sheet for the selected week and provides options to navigate to the time sheet of previous or next week.
- Provides a calendar along with the date range. Clicking a date in the calendar displays the time sheet for the week of the selected date.
- Provides a link to navigate to the time sheet for the current week when a different time sheet is being viewed.
- Provides an option under My Time Sheet that enables you to open and edit the time sheets of your resources. The option is available only for a user manager.
- Provides an option to view the time sheet in the Form view using time sheet form view
icon (
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- Displays the notifications for the submitted, rejected, and recalled time sheets under the show notifications icon (
). Each entry displays the number of time cards and their state. Click on a notification item to open the time sheet.
Tasks
- All your assigned incidents, problems, or change requests that are active.
- All your assigned incidents, problems, or change requests that are closed in the selected week.
- All tasks for which you are hard-allocated during the selected week.
- All your assigned projects or project tasks that are active during the selected week.
Project or project tasks are derived from the following conditions:
- A project or project task that has started and its actual start date is before the end of the selected week.
- A project or project task has closed and its actual end date is after the week has begun.
- When there are no actual dates for a project, planned dates of the project must occur within the selected week.
- All active stories assigned to you.
- All active scrum tasks assigned to you or closed in the selected week.
- All active test plans assigned to you.
- All active defect and enhancements assigned to you or closed in the selected week.
- Case [sn_customerservice_case]
- Work Order [wm_order]
- Work Order Task [wm_task]
On the Tasks tab, you can perform the following operations:
- Type a keyword in the search field to view only cards with details that match the keyword.
- Sort cards in ascending or descending order based on priority, irrespective of the task type.
- View cards based on a category, such as projects, project tasks, incident, problem, change, defect, enhancement, test plans, and scrum tasks.
- Create time cards for assigned tasks. See Create time cards and log time through Time Sheet Portal.Note:Time sheet policies apply when you create or edit a time card.
Group Tasks
The Group Tasks tab displays the tasks assigned to your Assignment group. The group tasks are displayed as cards in the tab. A card provides information about the task, such as short description, state, last updated date and time, and priority.
Other
Time Sheet
Starting Australia release, time cards and time sheet portal supports resource assignments. Users can select a specific resource assignment while creating time cards and submitting a time card via time sheet portal. Your system administrator can enable the resource assignment column in time sheet portal. For more information on how to add resource assignment column to time sheet, see the Knowledge Base for KB1649389.
- Displays the date range of the time sheet for the selected week.
- Indicates the state of the time sheet being viewed.
- Displays the total number of tasks and hours that you have entered for each day in a week. When you click a day in the time sheet, the column for that day is highlighted in both the Time Sheet and Logged Time Cards sections. The first day displayed in the Time Sheet section is based on the value specified in the Week starts on field in the users Time Sheet Policy. For example, if the Week starts on field is set to Friday, the Time Sheet section starts with Friday.
- Indicates the total number of hours that you entered in the time sheet. Time Sheet breakdown also displays a breakdown of user-entered hours in different work categories, such as project tasks, admin, meeting, follow on tasks, or change requests.
- Provides options that enable you to submit a time sheet and copy time cards from a previous time sheet. For an approver, options to approve or reject a submitted time sheet and recall a processed time sheet are available.
Logged Time Cards
- The Rate type column is visible only when the Allow multiple rate types option in the time sheet policy of the user is selected.
- The Resource plan column is visible only when the Update actual hours and cost in resource plan/reports option in the time sheet policy of the user is selected.
The icon beside the short description of a row indicates a time card state. The merge icon () in a time card row indicates that a duplicate time card for the same task exists in the time sheet and provides option to merge them into a single time card.