Daily Project Time Reporting Widget

Explanation

This activity is a quick and an easy method to project time reporting. Time can be reported for a day using the Daily Project Time Reporting widget at the IFS Home (The start page of IFS Cloud).

The Widget

The Daily Project Time Reporting widget allows users to report Project Time for a selected date using their Time Reporting Shortcuts and most recently reported reporting codes. It Indicates the progress of the logged in users time reporting for a given date and highlights if any remaining project time to be reported.

Reporting Project Time

Following fields will be useful when reporting time using the widget.

Account Date
The account date to report time is typically listed at the top left corner of the widget. (This may slightly change based on your screen resolution). The solution will by default have todays date selected (The system date) and it is possible to change the account date using the left and right carets (arrows).

Project Activity Codes
The widget will list all the shortcuts the logged in user has saved at Time Registration and the most recently reported time report codes.

Hours Reported
If any hours are already reported for the selected date, the widget will display this information.

Enter Your Hours
Use this field to report the number of hours worked against each time report code or shortcut listed.

Once the number of hours is entered against each time report code, the Report time button is enabled for the user to submit.

The Progress Bar

When hours are reported against each project activity code, with every hour entered, the progress will be displayed in blue color (the same color used in the My Time Registration Page).
Any Hours reported beyond the planned hours will be displayed in yellow.
The remaining hour that needs to be reported for the day will be displayed in a grey color (the same color used in the My Time Registration page when there are hours left to be reported). Addition to this a text indicating the number of hours remaining will be displayed on top of the progress bar.

Shortcuts

The widget also supports navigating to some Time Reporting related pages. By clicking on the command group Detail Page, it is possible to select one of the following navigations.

• My Intervals
• My Results
• My Clocking’s
  

The widget consists of one additional navigation button (Typically resides at the bottom left of the widget), this is a shortcut the user can configure themselves using the parameter option of the Widget.

Configurations

The Widget consists of a configuration section that allows the user to personalize the information displayed. The sections that can be configured are Quick Navigations, the default Employment that must be used to report time, and the order in which the project activity list should be displayed.

Configure Quick Navigation
The navigation button can be configured based on the user’s preference. Choose one of the following pages to be visible as a quick navigation option at the widget.

• My Time Card
•  My Timecard Details
• My Time Registration

Select Employment

Using this section select the logged in users Employment that must be used to report time. A list of companies the logged in user has active employments will be displayed here.

Select Project Activity list

Project Activity codes displayed in the widget are sourced from Activity shortcuts. Project activity codes will be suggested based on your most frequently reported activities within the selected number of days below. Use this section to define how the most recently used project report codes must be displayed at the widget.

There are two numerical parameters that must be entered:

• Past Number of Days to Consider
  The number of days the solution must go back when picking the most recently used project report codes.
• Suggested Activity Codes to be displayed
  How many out of the results should be displayed in the widget.
  
  Example: If Past Number of Days to Consider field has 14 in it and Suggested Activity Codes to be displayed has 5 as the value, the solution will pick the top 5 project time report codes during the past 14 days.

Note: The widget will first display the user defined shortcuts followed by the most recently used project report codes.

Prerequisites

In order to perform this activity;

• Employees with valid schedule assignments are required to exist.
• A time management time base is required to be assigned to employees in the Time Registration Employee Time Base page.
• The Relevant aware modules for IFS/Project Time Reporting is required to ne enabled in the Time Registration Aware Modules page.

System Effects

Job hours reported for a project will be updated in the Project Time Reporting page. Project Transactions page will also be updated with the transaction.