Understanding Task Reporting Requirements

With Time and Labor, you can track time at the level of task detail your organization requires and allocate costs accordingly. We use the term task to refer to a set of attributes of reported time, such as department, product, or project, that more precisely identify how or where time was spent.

You can specify the types of task information you want to capture for each time reporter. For example, you may want sales staff to account for their time by customer and product; project managers to account for their time by project and activity; and administrative staff to report their time without task detail. Task templates, task profiles, and taskgroups are the tools that make this possible.

Taskgroups serve another important function: they are the means by which you assign default time reporting templates to time reporters. So, even if you're not interested in capturing task data for time reporters, you need to create taskgroups and assign a taskgroup to each time reporter.