Helpful Tips
August 2004
How can I set a report to include information on all the "child" projects under a specific project?
Starting with Timesheet 5.6, Time, Expense and Mileage Reporting along with Rate Reporting allow the automated inclusion of all descendant projects contained within a specific branch of the Project hierarchy. The report creation and modification screens include a check box labelled "Automatically Include Project Descendants in Report?" located just beneath the list of projects available for report tailoring. When this box is checked, Timesheet will include the selected project(s) as well as all of the "child" projects of the selected projects.
Perhaps even more exciting is the fact that, once this option has been enabled, Timesheet will automatically maintain this report so that descendant projects created after this report will be included in the report and descendant projects that are deleted will also be removed from the report.
Is there a way to see a summary of costs for expenses and hours worked on a specific Project?
Timesheet 5.6 introduced Total Cost Reports - reports that show the total cost of a Project or User by combining time, expense, and mileage data from separate sources into a single report. Total Cost Reports are created and modifed just like other reports in Timesheet.
Total Cost Reports draw their information from the data that is contained in reports that are already available to the user so the data shown in total cost reports is limited to that which is viewable by the user running the report based on his group membership, role/authority level and all other parameters that Timesheet uses to control access to data.
Total Cost Reports are available by default to all users in Timesheet 5.6. So if you're in need of this functionality, simply install or upgrade to 5.6 today and see what your total costs really are.
