Timesheets > Submit/Approve Note: An Administrator can designate any person, regardless of access level, to be the Approver of anyone else's timesheets. See Account > User > Timesheets approved by for more information. You can also designate a single approver or approval process for all timesheets associated with a particular project. See Account > Projects > Project-based Approvals for more information. To submit a timesheet for approval: 1. Check the Timesheet report for accuracy by clicking on the Timesheet tab and then on the Timesheet report tab. (See Timesheet report for more information.) 2. If you are satisfied with the accuracy of the Timesheet report, click on the "Submit/Approve" tab. If you need to make corrections to your timesheet, follow the procedure outlined in modifying/deleting a timesheet. (Note: If you wish to change the *appearance* of the timesheet, go to Timesheet report layout.) 3. Once you click on the Submit/Approve tab, you will see a "Submit for approval" form that will be emailed to your timesheet Approver. Click on the "Submit" button. (Note: If you are the Approver of your own timesheets, you will see the message, "You are the owner and approver of the timesheet. Click on the approve button to submit and approve the timesheet.") 4. You will be notified by email about the status of your submitted timesheet after your Approver has approved or rejected it. If you are the Approver of someone else's timesheet, you will be notified by email when that person has submitted a timesheet for approval. In the email message: 1. Click on the hyperlinked URL. 2. Log in to OpenAir.com. 3. Review the submitted Timesheet report. 4. Select Approve or Reject from the drop-down menu in the upper left-hand corner of the form. (If you reject the Timesheet report, you can use the optional Text field to give the reasons for rejecting it.) 5. Click on the "Save" button. The submitter of the timesheet will be notified by email about the status of his/her timesheet. Bulk approval of timesheets: If you have many timesheets you need to approve, it may be more convenient to approve them all at once. To approve multiple timesheets at once: 1. Go to the Timesheets > Submitted sub-tab. You can filter the list so that it shows only those timesheets that you need to approve. 2. Click on the "Waiting for my approval" link found above the list. (Note: You will only need to do steps 3, 4, and 5 the first time you approve multiple timesheets.) 3. Now that you see only those timesheets that you need to approve, click on the "customize" link at the bottom of the list. 4. In the pop-up dialog box that appears, highlight "Run an action" and click on the "Add highlighted items >" button. 5. Click "OK." 6. In the list of timesheets, you will have a new column identified by a "check box" icon. Enable the check boxes for those timesheets you wish to approve. 7. Click on the double-arrow "run" icon. 8. In the pop-up dialog box that appears, click "OK" to approve the timesheets. 9. You will see the approval history report for the approved timesheets. 10. Click on the "Click Here" link to close the report. If you close the pop-up report using a different method, the submitted timesheets list will not be automatically refreshed. You will need to refresh the page yourself to see the changes you just made. How would I charge timesheet hours to a client? |