Share via

Be more productive when approving time sheets

  • Article

Important

This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new or changed in Business Central. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Cloud for Industry release plans.

Enabled for Public preview General availability
Users, automatically Mar 4, 2024 Apr 5, 2024

Business value

The ability to quickly and easily approve multiple time sheets at the same time makes the approval process more efficient for managers. Reducing the time and effort managers spend on reviewing and approving individual time sheets gives them more time to focus on their core business.

Feature details

You can now set up how Business Central will handle empty lines during submission for approval by choosing Time Submission Policy in the Resource Setup page:

  • Choose Empty Lines Not Submitted to skip lines that don't contain hours to submit. This is the default setting.
  • Choose Stop and Show Empty Line Error to stop processing the time sheet if one or more lines are missing hours.

Shows Resource Setup with Time Sheet Submission Policy field highlighted

Project managers have more details in Manager Time Sheet by Jobs available while approving time sheets:

  • The Resource No. shows on Manager Time Sheet by Job. You can also add the Resource Name by personalizing the page.
  • Saturday and Sunday are included on the Manager Time Sheet by Job.
  • The Total column shows the total per time sheet line.
  • The Time Sheet Comments FactBox shows time sheet header comments during approval.
  • The Time Sheet Line Details FactBox gives you quick access to time sheet line comments and activity details, such as the project name and task description.

Shows Manager Time Sheets by Job with Resource, Total, and Time Sheet Comments and lines highlighted

When you choose Approve or Reject to approve or reject time sheet lines, the default is Selected lines to avoid mistakes.

Shows default approval or rejection selection now being Selected lines.

Tell us what you think

Help us improve Dynamics 365 Business Central by discussing ideas, providing suggestions, and giving feedback. Use the forum at https://aka.ms/bcideas.

Thank you for your ideas

Thank you for submitting these ideas:

We listened to your ideas, along with comments and votes, to help us decide what to add to our product roadmap.

See also

Use time sheets (docs)