Selecting projects and tasks on your timesheet
Looking for help with this feature in Polaris? Check out Selecting tasks on your timesheet in the Polaris help.
Are you using a legacy timesheet?
If your project selector looks like the one below, see Using a legacy Replicon timesheet > Selecting tasks on your timesheet instead of this topic.
If you enter time against projects, click the Task field to select projects and tasks.
The task selector will display.
You'll also see three or four options at the top:
- Search By Category - browse or search by the Client (or Program), Project, or Task list that displays
- Search All to - search all of those categories at the same time
- Favorites - choose from task selections you previously favorited by clicking their star
- Advanced Search - select from filter criteria to narrow down the number of projects that display (this option may not be available in your timesheet)
In all searches, terms entered are matched against the start of each item name only. So, for example, if you are looking for “Customer Billing System”, it will show in the results if you search for “bil” but not if you search “ill”.
Searching all
Before you enter a term on the Search All tab, it will show up to 20 of your most recent task selections. This is a quick way to find tasks you've worked on before.
You can also use Search All to search among all clients, projects, or tasks at once. Matching clients, projects or tasks will display. Select the one you're looking for.
Browsing by category
You can browse through client, project, and task lists to find the project or task you need to enter your time against. Each selection you make filters the subsequent lists.
The field may be set up with programs instead of clients, or with neither.
To find a project or task by browsing:
- Select a client.
This will filter the project list so only that client's projects display.
- Select a project.
- If you're entering time against a task, select it from the list.
The timesheet will show the selection. For longer names, mouse over the field to show the full text.
To change a selection, click on the header for that section and reselect. For example, to change the project, click the Project header to reopen the project list. Then choose a different project.
Searching by category
You can search from within each category, to narrow the list of options of that type.
For example, if you have a client with a lot of projects, you can select that client name, and then enter the project name (or a portion of it) into the search field. The search will filter the list to show only projects that include that text.
With this option, you can only search by a category if an option from the parent category has been selected. For example, you can't search tasks without first selecting a project. If this poses a problem, try the Search All option.
Choosing your favorites
If you tend to work on the same projects over and over again, you might want to mark them as favorites, by clicking the star the appears beside them. Starred tasks appear on the Favorites tab. You can save up to 20 favorites – after that, you'll need to remove favorites to add more to your list.
Can I choose a certain project as a favorite?
No, you can only choose full task paths as favorites.
What happens if a task ends or I'm removed from it – will those tasks be automatically removed?
They'll be added to a Not Available list at the bottom of the tab.
These count toward your 20 favorites, so remove them to make room for adding others.
You can search for favorites, on the Favorites tab.
Filtering your search
You may be able to filter projects and tasks that appear by project properties, such as who the project manager is.
Available filters appear if you click the Advanced Search tab.
Related links
Entering time in a timesheet
Viewing projects, tasks, and activities by code instead of name
Do I have to select a project or activity?
Selecting projects and tasks when punching using the web app
