Labor Period Status Values

When you add a labor period to the Calendar grid, you must select a status for the labor period. The status you select determines what timesheet processing options are available to Timesheet users when they enter timesheets for that labor period. You can change the status of a labor period at any time.

All users can open and print any timesheet to which they have access, whether the labor period status is Open, Administrators, System Administrators, or Closed.

A user's access rights to the Timesheet feature also affect what processing options are available. You establish access rights on the Time tab of the Employee Info Center.

The following table describes the labor period status values.

Labor Period Status Effect on Time and Expense Timesheet Processing
Open

The labor period is Open to all users.

  • Users with Staff access can enter, edit, and submit timesheets.
  • Users with Group, Company, or System access can enter, edit, submit, and approve any timesheet to which they have access.
Administrators The labor period is Closed to Staff users, but Open to Group, Company, and System users.
  • Users with Staff access can no longer enter, edit, or submit timesheets.
  • Users with Group, Company, or System access can still enter, edit, submit, and approve any timesheet to which they have access.
System Administrators The labor period is Closed to Staff, Group, and Company users, but Open to System users.
  • Users with Staff access can no longer enter, edit, or submit timesheets.
  • Users with Group access can no longer enter, edit, submit, or approve timesheets.
  • Users with Company access can no longer enter, edit, submit, or approve timesheets.
  • Users with System access can still enter, edit, submit, and approve any timesheet to which they have access.
Closed The labor period is Closed to Staff, Group, Company, and System users.
  • All users are prevented from entering, editing, submitting, or approving timesheets.