Meetings away from your desk, a laptop that died, a morning where you forgot. Manual entries exist for all of it.
Adding one
- Open Timesheet and go to the day the work happened.
- Choose Add manual time.
- Pick the project, and the task if your organization requires one.
- Enter the start and end time.
- Write the reason. This is required, and it is what makes a manual entry reviewable.
The entry appears on the timesheet immediately, labelled as manual, and counts towards your totals like any other time.
What a manual entry does not have
No activity level, no screenshots, no app or website record. There is nothing to record, because you were not at the keyboard being measured. Reports show manual time separately for that reason, so do not be alarmed when a manual entry shows no activity.
The rules your organization can set
- Manual entry off entirely. If the option is missing from your timesheet, it has been switched off for the whole organization.
- A backdating limit. A maximum number of days you may reach back. Beyond it, your organization either warns you and accepts the entry, or refuses it outright.
- A daily maximum. An entry that pushes a day past the organization's ceiling is flagged for review.
What will always be refused
- Time in the future.
- An end time earlier than the start time.
- A slot that clashes with time you have already recorded. You will be told which entry it collides with.
Adding time for someone else
Administrators and managers with the right permission can add time on another member's behalf by choosing the member first. The reason field matters even more here, because it is the only record of why an entry the member did not create exists on their timesheet.