Timesheets

Tempo Timesheets is a time-tracking and time-planning add-on for JIRA. You can log time that you worked on different JIRA issues and plan time for future work. Your user timesheet displays the time that you logged. Depending on the permission that you have, you can also view other types of timesheets, where logged time is grouped by, for example, JIRA project, customer account, or JIRA issue.

Accessing Tempo Timesheets

Required permission

• Work On Issues permission for at least one JIRA project.
• Time tracking must be turned ON in JIRA.

Procedure

On the main menu bar, click Tempo > Timesheets.

Accessing Tempo Timesheets (click image to enlarge)

The user timesheet opens.

User timesheet  (click image to enlarge)

Column colors 

• Gray columns on the timesheet indicate weekends.
• Pink columns indicate other public holidays.
• A blue border surrounds the column for the current day.

Switching among different types of timesheets

You can switch among the following types of timesheets:

• User
• Project
• Team
• Account
• Advanced
• Issue

The type of timesheet that is currently displayed is indicated in the upper-left corner of the timesheet.

Procedure

To switch to a different type of timesheet, click the small down-arrow, and select a timesheet type from the list.

Displaying different time periods

You can adjust your timesheet view to show a day, week, month, or custom period. You can also switch the display to the previous, current, or next period. Learn more.

Displaying different views of the timesheet information

As well as selecting different timesheet types, you can select different views:

• Timesheet
• Calendar
• Report
• List

Learn more about different views.

The view that is currently displayed is indicated in the upper-right corner of the timesheet, beside the Export button.

Accessing user preferences

You can change the following user preferences:

My Supervisor

The name of your supervisor

Timesheet Actions

Whether you want to be notified by email during timesheet and planning approval processes

Team leads (and other users with Approve Timesheets permission) can also change the following user preferences:

Workload Scheme

Specifies which days are working days

Holiday Scheme

Specifies which days are public holidays

Procedure

To access user preferences, click the gray cogwheel  in the upper-right corner of the timesheet, and select User Preferences from the list.

Learn more about user preferences.

Logging time that you worked on an issue

1. In the upper-left corner of any timesheet view, click Log Work.
2. In the Log Work window, fill in the requested information, and click Log Work.

Learn more about logging work.

Planning time to work on an issue

If time planning is enabled, you can plan time to work on issues.

Procedure

1. In the upper-left corner of any timesheet view, click the small down-arrow beside Log Work, and then click Plan Time.
   
   
   
   
2. In the Plan Time window, fill in the requested information, and click Plan Time.

Learn more about time planning. Other PDF exporting options may be available using the PDF View Plugin for Jira, and other Excel exporting options may be available using the Better Excel Plugin for Jira.