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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users, automatically | 
Mar 4, 2024 |
Apr 5, 2024 |
Business value
Copying timesheets from previous periods saves you time and effort by reducing the need to manually enter data. This process improves productivity and efficiency by letting you quickly create timesheets from existing data. When you copy timesheets, you reduce the risk of data entry errors and keep your data consistent and accurate.
Feature details
The Self Service part, available on all Role Center pages, has a tile that shows your New Time Sheets. The time sheets are new because you didn't add lines to them. To avoid searching for your current time sheet, use the Current Time Sheet action in the Self Service part to open the time sheet. Business Central uses your Work Date setting on the My settings page to determine the current period.
When you open the Time Sheet page, you see several improvements:
The Submit and Reopen actions are context-aware to help you avoid errors when you submit or reopen time sheets.
The Status column on lines uses different styling (red and italic) when data is missing to submit the lines. When the time sheet line Type is empty, the Submit action is disabled on the lines part because there's nothing to submit for these lines.
Depending on your company setup, the time sheet lines show the Project No., Project Task No., Cause of Absence Code, Chargeable, and Work Type columns. For example, if your company doesn't set up Causes of Absence Codes, Business Central doesn't show the Cause of Absence Code column because it assumes you aren't using time sheets. When you show columns based on your setup, you get the following benefits:
- The time sheet lines have less clutter.
- You reduce the number of clicks to get to activity details.
- To make it easier to fill out timesheets, use the F8 keyboard shortcut to copy values from previous lines.
Note
With 2024 release wave 1, users can't select closed projects or tasks when they enter timesheets. This change reduces the number of erroneously submitted timesheets and lowers the timesheet submission rejection rate.
The Time Sheet Line Details FactBox lets you view data for comments on timesheet lines, and details for resources, projects, and tasks.
To make entering time sheet lines more efficient, copy lines from other time sheets, including archived time sheets. Select Copy lines from time sheet or Copy lines from time sheet with comments in the Prepare action group on the Time Sheet page to copy lines from other time sheets.
On the Time Sheet Lines page, select one or more time sheet lines to copy. Choose to View All, View Open, or View Submitted time sheet lines. This page also offers the Time Sheet Line Details FactBox to help you select lines to copy with additional details, such as comments you can also copy.
Tip
If you select only the first line of a source time sheet, Business Central asks you to confirm whether to copy only the selected time sheet line, which is the default, or all lines.
To analyze all your time sheets, search for Time Sheet Lines, and turn on the Analyze toggle.
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Additional resources
Use time sheets (docs)