Unified Time Entry Layout Configuration

The unified time entry layout is essential and all unified layout sets automatically includes it. You configure this layout using a three-step guided process and the Layout Sets task in the Time Management work area.

Layout Properties

Here are the layout properties that you can configure. They apply to the pages and dialog boxes that the layout defines.

Specify the time entry and date formats, and the precision of time display using decimal places.
Specify the default view for responsive time cards
Enable the entry of negative time and time spanning midnight.
Display the unit of measure column.
Enable editing of time and durations with time change requests, and enable comments.

Time Card Fields

You can replace the default fields and add more nonunified and unified fields that you want to appear on the time card. By default any fields that you add apply to both reported and calculated time. Also change display names. And dependent time card fields continue to work in unified layouts that include the corresponding independent layout component.

If you want the complete names to appear, limit them to 70 characters or less. The display names appear here:

On existing time card pages in the Time work area
On the Report Time dialog box opened from the Time work area calendar
On team time card pages in the Time Management work area
As column headers in the time entry and calculated time tables

The display sequence of the fields is important for data filter dependencies and processing. For example, your layout includes location fields. You need to select a state before you can select a county. And, you need to select the county before you select a city.

You can select the fields that together uniquely identify time entries on responsive time cards and on dialog boxes for change audit. People open these dialog boxes from classic time cards and see these fields and their values for each changed time entry. Or you can include them in the Addition Attributes of responsive and enhanced time cards. You can also specify where the time card fields appear on classic time cards, such as the main time card matrix, or row-level or entry-level details.

The Users column shows you the roles that can see the field on time cards. The Exclude option is set as part of the time card field configuration. You can’t override it while configuring the layout.

You can use the Actions > View By > Users or Locations options to filter the fields that you see while configuring the time entry layout. The filter doesn’t affect the actual time cards.

Time Totals

You can add time categories measured in hours and units and specify where they appear on classic, responsive, and enhanced time cards. You can also make the category display names more meaningful to the people who use the time cards.

The delivered hourly totals will always appear before all other time categories that you add. All unit totals will appear in the order that you specify.