Track hours against a task report inline on a report?

[snuzum]

Hello WF Gurus

I have a task report that we have configured to work as a status report for a dept. The assigned users can update their task % complete, update durations if needed, add inline comments to the particular task (custom task field), update a custom status inline (custom task status). I also want to include adding hours (tracking time) to that task via in line editing.

Is that possible - i want to avoid pushing them to the actual task on the project - clicking in the updates tab and then adding time or navigating to the timesheet. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[Christina_Jarosz]

HI Sherri - we have tried do to this as well but it's not possible at this time. You can't inline edit hours in reports.

[William-- · Accepted solution]

Christina is correct.

One of the rules of Workfront reports is:

"In a project report, you can only inline edit project-level details."

"In a task report, you can only inline edit task-level details."

"In an issue report, you can only inline edit issue-level details."

and so on for all the kinds of reports.

So although you can display details about related objects (e.g. display hours in a task report), you can't inline enter/edit them.

You could create an Hours report, and plop that in a dashboard alongside their task report, so they wouldn't (always) have to leave that screen. However this will only allow them to edit existing hour entries, not create new ones.

[snuzum]

Thanks for the response - I was hoping for some magic text mode but I get it. Thanks again!