Enter Your Time
Entering time consists of the following topics:
Adding timesheet entries
Individual timesheets capture the time you spend on projects, user stories, defects or tasks. It provides a convenient place for you to specify time spent on all the tasks you own that are scheduled for the week.
Because the data you enter on your timesheets may affect reports created for accounting purposes, you should fill out your timesheet according to the guidelines provided by your company. If you are unsure about the guidelines to follow, contact your Rally administrator before entering hours in your timesheet.
Rally supports three types of timesheet entries: tasks, work items, and projects. This allows for adding existing work items and tasks to your timesheet, as well as track project time such as meetings. Your Rally administrator may even have set up Rally to track non-project time (vacation, sick days) as well.
Add tasks:
There are two ways of adding Tasks to a Timesheet. Both are done from the My Home → Timesheet page.
Note: Once a task has been added to the timesheet, the task state and task to do are displayed. You can change the task state and task to do by clicking in the task state or task to do cell.
Add work items:
- Click +Add and select a project. Once you have selected a project, the project's work items currently scheduled in the displayed week will become available for selection.
- Select a work item from the drop-down menu.
The "Search All Work Items" option in the result drop-down allows you to search for a defect or a story (by ID or keyword) not scheduled in the selected project for the displayed week.
Add projects:
This method allows for entering hours against existing non-work time in a project such as meetings, design work, and collaboration.
To add a project, click +Add and select a project.
Note: If you want to track vacation time and other non-project time, create a "paid time off" or PTO project, create stories for vacation, sick leave, jury duty, and so forth, and schedule these stories in a year-long iteration so they automatically display in the work item chooser when users select the PTO project on their timesheet.
Entering hours
Once timesheet entries have been added to a timesheet, you can enter your hours. To enter your hours, select the cell below the day you want to enter your hours. Click anywhere in the cell to edit.
Your daily and weekly totals will immediately reflect any new hours entered.
This section also includes an area for updating your task to dos providing one interface for all time entries.
Removing timesheet entries
To remove a timesheet entry, click the drop-down option menu.
A timesheet entry can only be removed from a week as long as it has no hours entered against it.
Related Topics
Heads Up
- Work items are listed in work item ID order.
- Hours can be entered retroactively.
- Work days and non-work days are based on workspace settings.
- When work items or tasks are deleted in Rally, any referencing timesheet entries display greyed out as a visual indication the item was deleted. Existing hours can be edited by the user who entered those hours but editing timesheet days that showed no hours at the time the work item was deleted is prohibited.
- Timesheet entries can be added through the Rally Web Services API through TimeEntry and TimeEntryValue.
- You can access a work item or task detail page by clicking the link from the timesheet.
- Easily tab from one day to another.