Changes

A student may maintain their current timesheet by adding tasks and miscellaneous tasks, and editing the start and end dates, as well as and the hours for the current week they have spent on them. Adding and editing task and miscellaneous tasks are described int he in the following sections Adding a Task, Adding a Miscellaneous Task, Editing a Task, and Editing a Miscellaneous Task. A timesheet is created automatically at the start of every new week. All unfinished tasks from the week before will be carried over into the new timesheet. A timesheet may be submitted manually before the due date by clicking the "''Submit Timesheet''" button. This will mark the timesheet as submitted, will record the submitted date, and all unfinished tasks will be carried over to the new week. If a timesheet is submitted before the due date, the timesheet cannot be edited further until a new week begins and a new timesheet is created. If a timesheet is not submitted before the due date, after the due date the timesheet will be automatically submitted (however marked as late), and all unfinished tasks will be carried over into the new timesheet for the current week. To see an example of an editable timesheet, see ''Figure 4.2.1'', for a timesheet that cannot be edited, see ''Figure 4.2.2''. <br/>'''Note:''' Only Assigned Task's will be carried over to the new timesheet, miscellaneous tasks will not. <br/>[[Image:current_timesheet_1.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.2.1 - Editable Timesheet]]<br/>[[Image:current_timesheet_2.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.2.2 - Uneditable Timesheet]]

To add a task to your timesheet, click the "''Show Add Task''" link. A small window will appear above the timesheet. Here you You should select the task type "''Assigned''", this will show all assigned tasks to you in the drop down list. To add one of those these tasks to your timesheet, select it and click the "''Add''" button. If there are no tasks assigned to you, the drop down list will display "''No Assigned Tasks''" and the "''Add''" button will be disabled. For reference, see ''Figure 4.3.1 and 4.3.2''.<br/>[[Image:timesheet_add_task_1.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.3.1 - Adding a Task]]<br/>[[Image:timesheet_add_task_2.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.3.2 - No Assigned Tasks]]

To add a miscellaneous task to your timesheet, click the "''Show Add Task''" link. A small window will appear above the timesheet, here you . You should select the task type "''Miscellaneous''", this will show a text box where you can enter a description of the miscellaneous task. Once you have entered a description, you can add the miscellaneous task to your timesheet by clicking the "''Add''" button. For reference, see ''Figure 4.4''.<br/>[[Image:timesheet_add_misctask_1.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.4 - Adding a Miscellaneous Task]]

To edit a task, click the "''Edit''" button to the right of the task record on the timesheet. The row will become editable, text boxes will appear for the editable fields, start and finish date, and the weekly hours spent. To edit either the start or finished date, you may manually type the date into the field in the format of ''mm/dd/yyyy'' or you may select the date from the drop down calendar. To edit the weekly hours spent, you may enter the hours spent using numbers, using decimal places if needed. Decimal places must be calculated in the hundreds, to do this you can divide the time you spent in minutes divided by sixty, for example 125/60 = 2.08. If a task has been started, the weekly hours spent can not be equal to zero. If a task is edited with a finished date but no start date, than then the start date, finished date and the weekly hours spent are reset to nothing. Once you are done editing the task details and the fields are validated, you may click the "''Update''" button to the right of the record, and then the record will be updated and return to its normal view state. If you do not want to update your changes you may click the "''Cancel''" button. For reference, see ''Figure 4.5''.<br/>'''Note:''' A task will be carried over to a new week's timesheet if the task is unfinished.<br/>[[Image:timesheet_edit_task.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.5 - Editing a Task]]

To edit a miscellaneous task, click the "''Edit''" button to the right of the miscellaneous task record on the timesheet. The row will become editable, text boxes will appear for the editable fields, start date and the weekly hours spent. <br/>'''Note:''' There will be no editable textbox for the finished date, since a task is only considered a miscellaneous task if the task takes a small amount of time to complete, usually only a day. Therefore the finish date for a miscellaneous task to automatically recorded as the same date as the start date.<br/>To edit the start date, you may manually type the date into the field in the format of ''mm/dd/yyyy'' or you may select the date from the drop down calendar. To edit the weekly hours spent, you may enter the hours spent using numbers, using decimal places if needed. Decimal places must be calculated in the hundreds, to do this you can divide the time you spent in minutes divided by sixty, for example 125/60 = 2.08. If a miscellaneous task has been started, the weekly hours spent can not be equal to zero. If a miscellaneous task is edited with a finished date but no start date, than the start date, finished date and the weekly hours spent are reset to nothing. Once you are done editing the miscellaneous task details and the fields are validated, you may click the "''Update''" button to the right of the record, and then the record will be updated and return to its normal view state. If you do not want to update your changes you may click the "''Cancel''" button. For reference, see ''Figure 4.6''.<br/>'''Note:''' A miscellaneous task is not carried over to a new week's timesheet if it is unfinished.<br/>[[Image:timesheet_edit_misctask.JPG|center|650px|Figure 4.6 - Editing a Miscellaneous Task]]