I think as an approver of time sheet I should have the ability to Reject/Deny someones time sheet systemically along with providing a reason. The rejection should be at the entire weekly time sheet level or for just a particular entry. A workflow should send the email back to the user informing that their time sheet has been rejected and they need to make corrections based on the reason provided for rejection.
7Pace believes this should be done via a in person dialogue and not through the app. I believe the app should allow me to keep a record of actions I take as an approver. Thoughts from the community?
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This seems like fairly standard functionality for time management that wouldn't be difficult to implement at the entire week level. Add a reject button with a comment field. The user's timesheet would go back to unsubmitted and receive an email notification with the reason it was rejected.
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While the reject/deny functionality is standard on enterprise time and attendance systems, my project and management team is trying to stress that the time recorded is to understand how teammates are working on various project, maintenance, and support efforts, and we are not trying to have Timetracker be another time and attendance system. If an approver is going to reject someone's timesheet, there may be more discussion needed than what can be provided in a comment. A "rejection," even with a comment, does not seem like it would provide enough feedback to change future behavior to what may be expected. While I cannot say I would never use a timesheet rejection feature, I would say it is a low priority to have this feature added.
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This is a very important feature for us because the tracking of time in our primary working environment (AzureDevOps) using the proper work items, activity types and comments are essential for efficiency analysis, financial incentives (R&D credits), project costing. As Nathan said 5 years ago, it doesn't seem to be a big ask (speaking as a programmer here). The "revoke submission" is already available to the submitter, all there is left if to make it available to the approver.
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