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Kelly_Wehrmann
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March 13, 2017
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Give PMs ability to prevent users from Logging Time to Completed Tasks

  • March 13, 2017
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One of the biggest complaints from our PMs is that there is no easy way to ensure that users stop logging time to a task after it is "Completed". We will have situations were at the end of the month a person it needing to update their timesheet and they are entering hours beyond the date the task was closed. So it becomes a 'dumping ground' for hours. We have created exception reports to help the PMs monitor when someone is logging time to a Task beyond the Actual Completion Date, however, it's just extra overhead for them that takes time away from more important PM functions. They would really like it if they have an way to stop this from happening; they already have enough reports to monitor.

There is one option that they can attempt to stop this, but it requires that they update the Sharing Option for each person assigned to the Task to un-check the "log time" option, which is also very time consuming depending on the number of Tasks that need to be updated and the number of people assigned. So this isn't perceived by them as a "easy" solution for obvious reasons.

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Kelly_Wehrmann
New Participant
July 18, 2018

Ok, any duplicates to this Idea have been closed and votes added to this one. I still can't believe we can't get this one voted up enough to get it looked at by support...come on folks, we can do this! :)

New Participant
September 22, 2017

I would like this idea implemented & I also like the notification alert that David commented about for "Task Reopened to a Project Owner."

New Participant
March 14, 2017

Definitely agree. Because it's so easy for a user to add tasks to their timesheet this is a very easy way to hours to get dumped where they shouldn't be.

The simple workaround once this is in place would be that the user has to click the "Actually, I'm not done yet" link to reopen the task. I would say that the addition of a notification to the project manager in the case of a task being reopened this way would prove extremely beneficial - especially with the release of daily summary emails. A notification that's "Task Reopened to Project Owner". I'm not sure if reopening a task retriggers the notification of "Task Progress Change to Project Owner" or not but I'd say this is an instance where you'd want an explicit notification.