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AmyWe1
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July 25, 2017
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Moving to Tracking Time in Workfront

  • July 25, 2017
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Hi everyone - I'm looking to hear your experience in using Workfront for time tracking. While we use Workfront for project management, we currently use a different system for tracking time. We'd like to bring everything into Workfront. In our current system, users track time only at the project level. With the move to Workfront, we'd love to be able to track time at a task level so we have better data to work from. Has anyone else done a similar move before? How did it go? What works well with Workfront time tracking? What are some pitfalls we should be wary of? If you're doing task level time tracking, how detailed are your tasks? How did you approach the change management with your organization? Any suggestions, thoughts, or guidance would be greatly appreciated! Amy Westlake Practice Manager, Global Delivery Practice Apptio, Inc. Bellevue, WA
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LauraRa1
Level 7
August 17, 2017
I can answer that! We just came up against the same problem. Especially since we changed all our hour types to be team specific! The only way we found is to un-submit/approve the timesheet and change the hour type back to the correct one then save/submit again etc. I believe this works Regards, Laura Ray Junior Project Manager Bakkavor Information Systems Bakkavor Group West Marsh Road, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 2BB, UK Direct: +44 (0)1775 763 010 "www.Bakkavor.com"> www.Bakkavor.com // Laura.Ray@Bakkavor.com
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EricMa
Level 4
August 18, 2017
Here's my process for moving "Project Time" back to "Task Time": - Reopen the timesheet in question - Create a new task in the project to "house" the hours, or else determine whether an existing task in the project can serve the purpose (this can sometimes be a tricky undertaking) - Add the task to the person's timesheet - Add new hours to that task in the amount(s) and date(s) that correspond to the Project Time hours (so, for the moment, you're doubling the number of hours) - Save the timesheet (don't close it yet) - Go to the Project and click on the Hours tab - Delete the Project Time hours - Close the timesheet It's kind of a pain, but fortunately it doesn't happen very often. I have a custom Task status called "Cancelled" that I encourage our PMs to use instead of deleting the task--but that doesn't always work. :( Eric Manning Language Line Translation Solutions
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